On 04/11/2011 09:56 PM, Mike wrote: > I use Seamonkey (2.0.13) to check several mail boxes. I've used this > software since before Moz Suite supported tabbed browsing. My point is, > I have a lot of email. And I like SM but it's crawling. I've compacted > all the folders, but changing from one account or folder or email to > another takes 5 to 10 seconds sometimes, rarely even more. Frequent > pauses in composing emails happens as well. > > A couple POP accounts have about 2000 messages, another has 7K, and my > main POP account has about 14k. I delete junk and unimportant messages > such as list email, so what is left is mail I wish to have for search or > archive. > > Am I seeing expected behavior for the size of mailboxes I have? If not > what can I tune? If not, how can I archive mail older than a certain > date in a manner that I can quickly/easily get to it for search? TIA! >
I have multiple pop accounts & many of the folders (Inbox/Sent/<folder>) average between 2,000 and 5,000 emails per folder on all but two of the accounts. I also use filters to sort various messages to the appropriate folders. No issues like you are describing. I mirror the same .mozilla folder across multiple machines: linux, WinXP, Win2K, Win7, as well as multiple versions (2.0.13, 2.1b2, and 2.1b3). So, at least on my part, it doesn't seem to be OS related. Nothing particular about my hardware (ranges from 2.4Ghz/768Mb, 2.4Ghz/1Gb to 2.1Ghz/3Gb - the Win2k and WinXP's are running in Virtual Machines with minimal recommended memory set in some). Are the 14k in your main pop account in one folder? If so that might be part of the cause. You can use the Archives (Message|Archive) feature to break out old messages & put them in the Archives folder(s), and/or set up some filters to move certain messages to subfolders. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
