[Dovecot] Thunderbird Problem - What causes this?

[Ed W]

> OK - I didn't know that I might be reporting something new. Here's 
> some more details. I leave my computer on at might (Windows XP) and 
> it's worse in the morning when I wake up. Thunderbird's checks the 
> email every 1 minute and it's set up to check several IMAP folders. 
> I'm running the latest Thunderbird release as will as the latest 
> Dovecot (not the beta versions).
>
> In the morning it is as if it can't access dovecot at all. I get an 
> hour glass as if it is waiting for something that's never going to 
> respond. But if I shut down Thunderbird and restart it then everything 
> works normal for a while.


Be sure that it's not just a memory leak in Thunderbird though.  I find 
TB can gobble memory in some situations...  you notice that it grinds 
the HD like crazy for example..

Ed W