On 18/07/16 11:46, Stephan Bosch wrote: > > > Op 16-7-2016 om 18:12 schreef Charles Marcus: >> >> On July 16, 2016 4:02:33 AM EDT, Spyros Tsiolis <sts...@yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote: >>> Since I have quite some experiece with thunderbird, I know most of >>> its shortcomings >> Care to elaborate? Thunderbird is far from perfect, but is by far the >> best IMAP client available. >> >> Most times you can work around supposed short comings (if what you >> think are short comings actually are, often they are not)... > > I agree. I haven't seen anything better so far. Still, with my 100+ > folders it regularly hangs for a few seconds while it is presumably > doing stuff in the background. So, for example composing a message is > often a frustrating activity. This is enough reason for me to look for > an alternative client, but there is no real alternative...
Known problem. Sort of a indexing thundering herd problem. Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor, set mail.db.idlelimit to a large number. I set it to 30000000. Fixed it for me.. Mike.
