[ubuntu-za] Thunderbird overload?

Jan Greeff jan at verslank.net
Thu May 10 18:51:51 UTC 2012


There are no imap settings to alter where you specify. I also did a
Google search and found  instructions to change the imap settings, but
my Thunderbird does not have the settings options they refer to. It only
gives inbox selection options.


On 10/05/2012 20:19, Wikus wrote:
> The setting Wesley refers to is  under Edit - Account settings -
> Syncronization and Storage (under the relevant imap account)
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> On 10/05/2012 19:15, Wesley Werner wrote:
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>> Thunderbird suffers from an insane default. in your imap accout
>> settings, you *must* set the folder sync size to the last 60 days
>> (example) else TB will sync *all* of your mail. I blame dvelopers who
>> live in "bandwidthless world".
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>> Look for this setting, I can't give exact info without a pc or TB..
>>
>> On May 10, 2012 6:19 PM, "Jan Greeff" <jan at verslank.net
>> <mailto:jan at verslank.net>> wrote:
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>>     Thunderbird (especially when compacting folders) was causing my
>>     Ubuntu 12.04 to hang to the extent where all I could do was to
>>     switch off power and start over.
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>>     I then reverted to Ubuntu 11.04 , but the same is happening here.
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>>     I have about 1,1 gigabyte of e-mails in various folders, could
>>     this be the reason why this is happening?
>>
>>     Jan
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