Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders

[Andrea Conti <alyf@alyf.net>]

Hi,

I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with
very large folders (thousands of archived messages).

IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had
frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly
while performing server operations)

The only problem I can think of is that if you have used the default
settings for the message search feature, thunderbird will attempt to
build a full-text search index by downloading every message on the
server (body included) when it is first run. Thunderbird will try
downloading messages from multiple folders in parallel, which might
cause a hign load on the server resulting in substantial delays when
listing folder contents.

If thunderbird is indexing messages (look at the progress indicator on
the status bar), try leaving it alone until it is done -- it's a
one-time process.

If, on the other hand, everything is idle, I'm sorry but I have no idea.

HTH,

andrea