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| Thread ID: 143709 | 2017-03-23 22:46:00 | Help please, with Thunderbird | ianhnz (4263) | Press F1 |
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| 1433233 | 2017-03-24 11:17:00 | My brother was having problems (mainly slowness) with Thunderbird too on Windows 7 recently. He is with Xtra/Spark and had about 20,000+ emails in his Inbox. I archived and deleted heaps of emails and everything was good until Xtra/Spark changed his account to the NZ based server just after I had done this and he was back to 20,000+ emails in his Inbox again with heaps of duplicates. :( :groan: But, even as it was he said it was faster than before. After a second cleanout (I used a Thunderbird plugin to remove the bulk of the duplicates) he is happy now. I also compacted the folders after the archiving/deletion round which cleans up the database as others have said. I have read somewhere regarding Thunderbird that it's best not to have too many emails in the main Inbox folder. It's better to try and keep that folder under 1000 and archive or move emails to subfolders. I set up a filter system to help with that too. |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1433234 | 2017-03-24 20:11:00 | Posting at 12:17am, Rod? Dedication beyond the call of duty! What a PITA having to do the file cleanout twice. Very pleased I ditched TB years ago and went to gmail with the browser interface. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1433235 | 2017-03-24 23:04:00 | My brother was having problems (mainly slowness) with Thunderbird too on Windows 7 recently. He is with Xtra/Spark and had about 20,000+ emails in his Inbox. I archived and deleted heaps of emails and everything was good until Xtra/Spark changed his account to the NZ based server just after I had done this and he was back to 20,000+ emails in his Inbox again with heaps of duplicates. :( :groan: But, even as it was he said it was faster than before. After a second cleanout (I used a Thunderbird plugin to remove the bulk of the duplicates) he is happy now. I also compacted the folders after the archiving/deletion round which cleans up the database as others have said. I have read somewhere regarding Thunderbird that it's best not to have too many emails in the main Inbox folder. It's better to try and keep that folder under 1000 and archive or move emails to subfolders. I set up a filter system to help with that too. That is not Xtra's fault - it's a mail client configuration issue - the mail client has been set to leave messages on the server forever. Xtra's new SMX interface is great, far cleaner and faster than Yahoo, and, joy of joys, has a 'empty folder' option when the Inbox is right clicked on. That feature in itself can save hours when sorting this type of thing out. The other option is you can use IMAP now, and it actually works. With Yahoo, it was dog slow and rather buggy. From my (limited) experience with it on the new server, it seems great. I was syncing someone's mailbox via IMAP at over 30Mbps the other day. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1433236 | 2017-03-25 01:13:00 | Good to hear some good has come of the change to SMX. Hopefully the xtra mail service can get past its stigma. | linw (53) | ||
| 1433237 | 2017-03-25 04:03:00 | Posting at 12:17am, Rod? Dedication beyond the call of duty! What can I say ... I'm a night person and I'm rarely in bed before 2 a.m. Quite easy to do this when you're virtually retired and live alone (but not lonely). :nerd: |
Rod J (451) | ||
| 1433238 | 2017-03-25 19:35:00 | (but not lonely). Say no more!! Too much information, contestant. |
linw (53) | ||
| 1433239 | 2017-03-25 22:24:00 | I live alone as well and I'm not lonely either, most of the time, anyway. lol. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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