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e-mail is extremely slow. I see "Not Responding". What can I do? SOLVED imap folder too large

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It takes a very long time to process the e-mails when I click on them, whether to retrieve, delete, etc. Sometimes it is worse than other times. It usually says Mozilla Thunderbird not responding with the spinning thing.

It takes a very long time to process the e-mails when I click on them, whether to retrieve, delete, etc. Sometimes it is worse than other times. It usually says Mozilla Thunderbird not responding with the spinning thing.

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cdepinho said

It takes a very long time to process the e-mails when I click on them, whether to retrieve, delete, etc. Sometimes it is worse than other times. It usually says Mozilla Thunderbird not responding with the spinning thing.

I moved stuff from my IMAP mail to local storage. I also rebuilt the mail database. Thank you for your help. I very much appreciate it.

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Sounds like you may have your Anti-Virus product scanning emails, so it is temporarilly interruptng thunderbird.

Suggest you stop your anti-virus from scanning Thunderbird folders or emails.

I would also suggest you create a backup of your profile and then compact all folders to remove all traces of previously deleted emails.

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Hi cdepinho.

Can you give us an update please? We'd like to understand and know your situation, even if you resolved it.

Thanks

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cdepinho said

It takes a very long time to process the e-mails when I click on them, whether to retrieve, delete, etc. Sometimes it is worse than other times. It usually says Mozilla Thunderbird not responding with the spinning thing.

I moved stuff from my IMAP mail to local storage. I also rebuilt the mail database. Thank you for your help. I very much appreciate it.

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> I moved stuff from my IMAP mail to local storage.

Are you saying your imap Inbox was very large?

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Yes. The imap inbox was too large.