From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OqrNX-00030O-R3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:45:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71A67E0B76; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp204.alice.it (smtp204.alice.it [82.57.200.100]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23965E0B76 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:44:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from infra.agr.fm (79.6.117.34) by smtp204.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4C3B175902CC13EA for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:44:37 +0200 Received: from [192.168.64.9] (silver.agr.fm [192.168.64.9]) by infra.agr.fm (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5FDB5DD103 for ; Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:44:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4C7E9105.1040102@alyf.net> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:44:37 +0200 From: Andrea Conti User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and IMAP folders References: <201008312005.11312.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> In-Reply-To: <201008312005.11312.jcunning@cunning.ods.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e32d99ea-efda-4200-ba28-490566ef1b1c X-Archives-Hash: 644e16a01cad5da93d9bafa19325d4f3 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