On 5/10/2011 4:58 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
As you may be aware, TB3.x ignores the entire premise of IMAP in storing messages on the server, trying to make copies of all messages, locally.
Yes, this is the default as 95%+ of Thunderbird seats are home/mobile broadband users. For corporate use see:
http://wpkg.org/Thunderbird#Prefs
With my users running with roaming profiles, this easily adds over 1GB of locally cached mail to each profile that needs to be copied to and from a server each time a user logs in or out (creating huge lag times for login/logout).
Linda you should be shot for not fixing this already. 1GB roaming profiles? (gasp) Bet the switch, server, and storage vendors just love you. ;)
If you've got some basic script writing ability, or can find something already written, simply walk the profile directory on the server and add the necessary lines to each user's prefs.js. Assuming your workstations are already configured to delete locally cached roaming profiles at logoff the problem is now solved for existing users.
For new user profile creation simply create a custom default profile template.
-- Stan