Robert Kern wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>Sorry about this almost off-topic post, but I am guessing there must be >>other readers of this group who use Thunderbird (in my case 1.0.2) to >>access it as gmane.comp.general.python. >> >>I'm currently showing 344,548 articles in the group due to the gmane >>policy of permanent retention, and lately it seems to have started >>taking forever to switch from mailboxes to the newsgroup. Furthermore, >>the Thunderbird process's memory usage climbs from ~30MB reading mail to >>over 200MB reading the newsgroup. >> >>Has anyone else noticed this, or is it specific to my setup? Does anyone >>have a solution? > > > You can specify a policy for keeping old messages for each server > account. Go to your "Account Settings" for GMane and look in "Offline & > Disk Space". You can choose to keep all messages, the newest N messages, > or messages from the past N days. > Thanks, that's done it. A few days ago Thunderbird had a giddy fit and suddenly decided that every article on the server was unread. I don't know what happened, but after resetting the Thunderbird policy for the group (and waiting three minutes for it to comb through everything) all is well again.
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