[Dovecot] Thunderbird very slow startup, 1.2.11, mbox, postfix local delivery to /var/mail

[Charles Marcus]

On 2010-05-10 8:48 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> I'm thinking at this point that the cause of the problem is that I probably
> use Tbird in a way/methodology that the Tbird devs never anticipated, or
> discourages.  It's seems clear, unfortunately, that their entire mindset is
> based on a FAT client that caches, indexes, and syncs all messages locally.

What is Tools > Options > Disk Space > Cache set to? I guess it is
possible that if you set the cache too low it might cause problems...

Also, for Tools > Account Settings > Synchronization & Storage, have you
told TBird to delete any messages under the 'To recover disk space ...'
section?

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Best regards,

Charles