Agreed, Alan. My Yahoo extension shows no signs of slowing TB down. Just a thought that perhaps over-frequent checking may be a contributory factor. Most of my accounts in TB are set to around 10 minutes which works fine. Even for a busy account, I can't see any real advantage in checking more frequently.
alanrf wrote: > Chris, > > I normally concur with all your posts but this time I have to say that > Yahoo is my main email account and so that most of my mail is received > via the Yahoo Webmail. extension. My account re-check time in > Thunderbird is 10 minutes but I stand by the information I gave > above ... I simply do not now and nor have I ever seen this kind of > slow down with Thunderbird and the Webmail add-ons. The Hotmail > extension (without good old WebDav is certainly slower for large > attachments. However, I do not get many large attachments with Yahoo > and regular emails present no slow down issues for me. > > On Oct 14, 11:52 pm, Chris Clifton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If your Yahoo account only gets 1/2 emails a day, is it really necessary >> to check it every 3 minutes? Just a thought, but I it does appear from >> other threads that converting mails on a Yahoo web page into POP format >> before presenting them to Thunderbird is a task that can cause the >> extension to use a lot of processor cycles. If another round of >> processing is started before the previous round has finished, this would >> certainly slow things down. Would the extension be working hard if there >> are no emails to download? I don't know, but it wouldn't hurt to try a >> longer mail checking cycle. >> >> >> >> BamsenMisty wrote: >> >>> On Oct 15, 3:54 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Have you checked the size of your Thunderbird files .... are you >>>> keeping large amounts of data in Thunderbird? >>>> >>> No. Files are not all that large. Total size for all the files in Mail >>> is >>> only 84MB. The single largest file is under the Gmail account at >>> 37MB. And Gmail doesn't cause the issue. >>> >>> The total size for the localhost files for Yahoo is 104KB. It gets >>> one/two emails a day and the same amount gets deleted each >>> day. >>> >>>> Do you compact your Thunderbird folders regularly? >>>> >>> This is why I use Xpunge, to handle the compacting. Xpunge >>> is set to compact all accounts once a day. Nothing is kept in >>> Trash folders longer than 5 days. >>> >>> Thinking the compacting may be the problem, I went through >>> and manually deleted all the Index files (MSF), compacted >>> everything and rebuilt the Indexes. No change. >>> >>> As I had WinWord open most of the time (and loving to blame >>> MS for almost anything that slows down my computer), I was >>> faulting that for making my puter slow. but even now as I type >>> this, only Firefox and TB are open and Task Manager is >>> showing Thunderbird eating up CPU cycles. >>> >>> Being completely paranoid about malware, in addition to my >>> always on AV and Spyware tools, I've run several other >>> AV and spyware tools on the system and it's clean. >>> >> -- >> > > > > -- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
