Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 11:52 -0500, Tim Evans wrote: > On 01/17/2018 11:08 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > On 01/15/18 17:02, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > On 01/16/18 05:04, David A. De Graaf wrote: > > > > > > If only there were a way to make thunderbird use the native email > > > files, as mutt > >

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-17 Thread Tim Evans
On 01/17/2018 11:08 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: On 01/15/18 17:02, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/16/18 05:04, David A. De Graaf wrote: If only there were a way to make thunderbird use the native email files, as mutt does, this problem wouldn't occur. For your IMAP accounts, explore the "Storage

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-17 Thread David A. De Graaf
On 01/15/18 17:02, Ed Greshko wrote: On 01/16/18 05:04, David A. De Graaf wrote: If only there were a way to make thunderbird use the native email files, as mutt does, this problem wouldn't occur. For your IMAP accounts, explore the "Storage and Synchronization"  settings Thank you Ed Greshko

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/16/18 05:34, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 16:04 -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote: >> But WHY this happened - I suppose is unknowable. I discovered that >> thunderbird, because it is using IMAP, creates and maintains copies of >> all the mail that exists in the primary

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-15 Thread Ed Greshko
On 01/16/18 05:04, David A. De Graaf wrote: > But WHY this happened - I suppose is unknowable.  I discovered that > thunderbird, > because it is using IMAP, creates and maintains copies of all the mail that > exists > in the primary files on the server: /var/mail/dad, plus the archives in >

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-15 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2018-01-15 at 16:04 -0500, David A. De Graaf wrote: > But WHY this happened - I suppose is unknowable. I discovered that > thunderbird, because it is using IMAP, creates and maintains copies of > all the mail that exists in the primary files on the server: > /var/mail/dad, plus the

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 01/15/2018 01:04 PM, David A. De Graaf wrote: If only there were a way to make thunderbird use the native email files, as mutt does, this problem wouldn't occur. Have it use POP3 instead, deleting the messages from the "server" when you download them. Yes, that takes up a little bit more

Re: Thunderbird freezes machine [SOLVED]

2018-01-15 Thread David A. De Graaf
On 01/14/18 17:57, David A. De Graaf wrote: I have a weird and puzzling problem with thunderbird on my main computer, running Fedora 26 (waiting for resolution before updating). If I so much as touch an attachment to a received email, the machine freezes. My problem is solved, sort-of. With