Allen Day, [AD] wrote: > I've been switching back and forth between Thunderbird for some > time now as I've converted all my mail to IMAP and TB has > been extremely problematic. By unchecking the box in the IMAP fine > tune to auto-refresh every ~n minutes, I can at least keep TB > from hanging every few minutes but there are still a lot of other > problems.
When using TB! and IMAP, start off with less aggressive synchronization options. In fact, ThunderBird uses a less aggressive syncing method and is incapable of some of TB!'s more aggressive syncing, such as the full syncing option. I'd use the following setup as a first and if this isn't working reasonably and without lockups, then you're in trouble with TB! IMAP. :( - Disable sync'ing for all IMAP folders - Go in the account properties and in the Mail Management section, enable all the options for auto-connecting to the server. - For IMAP fine tuning, disable 'retrieve message structures with message bodies'. TB! will now be effectively in a mode where it will only retrieve information from the server when you request it. Selecting a folder will lead to a header sync operation. Selecting messages within the folder will lead to the retrieval and display of the message body. If this works, you can now enable only header syncs for those folders that are important. Do manual header syncs for the rest. This method is more efficient. Excessive syncing will bog down the IMAP queues and when you wish to have something done, the request get's stuck in the queue waiting its turn. > The most notable symptom is as described below: > - In my message viewer, I have the list shown on top. Frequently, > the subject selected in the list is -not- the same as the subject > shown in the viewer. So it's hard telling what message I'm > viewing/should be viewing. That's troubling. I'm not sure I understand this part. This is odd ... unless what's happening is that you select a new message and the old message body remains displayed, waiting to be refreshed after retrieval of the currently selected message body. It would seem that most of your symptoms are based on excessive auto-syncing and bogging down of the queues. I hope I'm right, and things improve for you. It certainly did for me at work where the connection is slow. Even with a very high speed connection the queuing can lead to surprisingly long delays. Full syncing seems like an attractive option but it really should be done only after careful thought that it's needed. > I've tried numerous times to run folder maintenance on the whole > account but it hangs part way through, eats memory ravenously > (windows virtual memory management takes over after a time) -- and > eventually TB dies altogether, silently dropping. I don't use folder maintenance. Most of the functions don't work for IMAP anyway. Set the folders to be compressed on exit and you should be reasonably fine. Good luck and tell me how it goes. -- -= Allie =- The Bat!� v3.0 � Windows XP Pro (Service Pack 2) ..... 3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't. ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
