Email Clients - Any alternatives to Thunderbird?

[Firegod]

Hello!

I've been using Thunderbird for awhile now, but have found recently it's getting a bit sluggish. I have to wait before clicking in various folders, etc as it sometimes freezes up for 10-15 seconds. Is there anything I can do to improve the speed again?

Are there any alternatives I should try?

 

[Ross1234]

Is that because you have heaps of emails in them? Trying archiving your old emails into an archive folder then it will speed up again.

 

[Firegod]

Is that because you have heaps of emails in them? Trying archiving your old emails into an archive folder then it will speed up again.

Hmm not that many, I have ~ 6-7 sub-folders with rules set. Mostly for various forums, but once I've clicked them to open the link in a browser (for example) I delete the email. I'll have a clear out just in case.

 

[deshepherd]

Hmm not that many, I have ~ 6-7 sub-folders with rules set. Mostly for various forums, but once I've clicked them to open the link in a browser (for example) I delete the email. I'll have a clear out just in case.

Try using the "compact folders" option ... its on one of the file pull down.

Thunderbird, like many email clients, handles its mail folders via one file containing all the emails and a second index file containing a list of pointers to the emails Rather like DOS/windows, when you delete an email it just removes it from the index (? may also add a "deleted" marker to the actual message as well since, I think, you can rebuild the indexes from the main file) ... what it doesn't do is to delete the message text from the main file.

Compacting folders basically copies the message file to a version of itself with all the deleted emails removed.

So, if you don't compact then the message file continues to grow, even if you delete messages after reading them and I think this may be a cause of the slowdown.

 

[Firegod]

Try using the "compact folders" option ... its on one of the file pull down.

Thunderbird, like many email clients, handles its mail folders via one file containing all the emails and a second index file containing a list of pointers to the emails Rather like DOS/windows, when you delete an email it just removes it from the index (? may also add a "deleted" marker to the actual message as well since, I think, you can rebuild the indexes from the main file) ... what it doesn't do is to delete the message text from the main file.

Compacting folders basically copies the message file to a version of itself with all the deleted emails removed.

So, if you don't compact then the message file continues to grow, even if you delete messages after reading them and I think this may be a cause of the slowdown.

OK thanks for that tip!

 

[philjohn]

I have about 10,000 messages in my main inbox, another 15-20,000 in folders (all IMAP) and another 6-8,000 in a pop account and notice no slowness, I do regularly compact my folders (about once a week). I went from Outlook to Thunderbird because of slowness.