Hi Jon, Sorry to hear you're having trouble with Thunderbird. I am almost finished moving my email, address books, etc., out of my old Win2K/Mozilla-suite system and onto my newer (if unremarkable) Ubuntu 10.04/Thunderbird system. Like you, I have a lot of email that goes way back that I wanted to keep available.
I am running Thunderbird 3.1.7 with some plug-ins (Lightning, Enigmail, and four minor ones) and have not had any of the kind of problems you are describing. But I did check into the address book format (I have five address books left to move) and I learned about the "mork" database (arguably the worst feature of Thunderbird, they've been arguing about the best replacement for it for years now, with no visible progress, and limited availability of user-data-manipulation tools for editing mail summaries, address books, etc. But regardless, Thunderbird is working great for me here and I'm sticking with it. I'm sure the "de-morkification" will eventually get done. How did they ever buy the idea that a non-readable format was a good idea for an address book? Hello, .pst files, anyone!? Oh, nevermind. You may want to do a quick check of "the usual suspects": On Win/FAT32 systems, T-bird (or most anything) will choke when a file gets to the 4GB (2GB?) FAT32 limit. The NTFS limit is much bigger, so it shouldn't be a problem, same with any recent Linux filesystem. Have you done an OS filesystem check? Applied all OS updates? Compacted all your mail folders? You might try deleting all your .msf files and let T-bird recreate them on startup. I hope someone else will be able to help you more, I'm really enjoying Thunderbird after having to use webmail for a long time. If you need help testing or something, let me know. Kim On 01/16/2011 12:10 AM, Jon Elson wrote: > Well, this is quite off-topic, but I just went through HELL with my > Thunderbird email client. > It has been acting flaky for a while, with about 2-minute hangups every > now and then. When it does this, the CPU utilization goes to 100% for > the duration. Now, suddenly, these delays are 8 minutes long! This is > with Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 on a 1.7 GHz pentium 4 just updated to 2 GB of > memory. > > I tried to update to Thunderbird 3.1.1, and the delays with that are 67 > minutes long! > > I have a HUGE number of emails stored in many folders going back to > 1997, and also have newsgroup folders for such as > rec.crafts.metalworking. My newsgroup service has everything going back > to 2003, so there are 600,000 message headers > for the R.C.M. group alone. I think Thunderbird is constantly > "indexing" this stuff for some reason, although I have tried to > turn off EVERYTHING possible that I don't need. > > So, what do others use for email and newsgroups on Linux systems? I'd > need something that could import the mail files > from Thunderbird. > > Thanks, > > Jon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks > Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand > malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you > can protect your company and customers by using code signing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
