Alvaro Zuniga wrote: > I have tried thunderbird before and my problem was that whith multiple IMAP I > keep getting the error "IMAP server busy" or something like that. Could be a > server thing but it is a problem for me. I tried the gentoo binary package.
Were you using Courier-IMAP? I found that problem was solved by allowing more connections from a given IP. Courier limits this to four by default. One thing that is still killing me is that Thunderbird is just plain pokey with large IMAP folders. If I open my brlug-general folder for example, which only has several messages (I set my folders to hide read messages), Thunderbird usually takes 3-5 seconds to load the folder and apply the view. This is an instant process in OE. For larger folders the problem gets worse. Also, I've noticed that Thunderbird doesn't show new messages as quickly as OE, even if you lower the poll rate for scanning IMAP folders. Oh well. I can live with these things in general. If I'm in a crunch I just open OE to quickly see a new message when things get urgent. Otherwise I'm going to stick with Thunderbird at this point.
