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Hi, |
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I routinely use thunderbird to access mail on a cyrus IMAP server with |
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very large folders (thousands of archived messages). |
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IMAP support in the 3.1 series seems quite stable to me (whereas 2.x had |
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frequent problems with folder indexes and 3.0.x tended to hang randomly |
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while performing server operations) |
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The only problem I can think of is that if you have used the default |
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settings for the message search feature, thunderbird will attempt to |
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build a full-text search index by downloading every message on the |
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server (body included) when it is first run. Thunderbird will try |
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downloading messages from multiple folders in parallel, which might |
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cause a hign load on the server resulting in substantial delays when |
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listing folder contents. |
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If thunderbird is indexing messages (look at the progress indicator on |
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the status bar), try leaving it alone until it is done -- it's a |
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one-time process. |
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If, on the other hand, everything is idle, I'm sorry but I have no idea. |
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HTH, |
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andrea |