On 8/30/2009 11:34 PM, Adam McDougall wrote:
The two biggest real bottlenecks:
- Thunderbird is just slow at uploading to IMAP. With a bunch of small msgs it only does a few per second and you can tell the server is waiting for something to do.
Did you try TBird 3.0b3? It has many, many IMAP improvements...
Wow it sure is faster at uploading, thanks for mentioning it!
Any chance you can follow-up with some comparisons, even if they are rough guesstimates on your part?
Some of the other fixes include not downloading attachments every time you click on a message, allowing you to store messages offline 'on demand' (as you click on them), as opposed to forcing you to download an entire folder, controls for people with limited bandwidth and/or storage, etc...
There are some things I really don't like about the UI, and none of my extensions I need work, so I don't use it yet for anything other than occasional testing, but I'm really looking forward to the release and some maturity...
It combined with dovecot will provide a really most excellent imap experience. :)
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Best regards,
Charles