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Is there an option to copy multiple emails to the remote server in parallel?

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I'm restoring multiple (tens) email accounts from MBOX files using the "ImportExportToolsNG" add-on, however when I start the copy from my computer into the email account, it copies only one message at a time, sequentially, which is a problem because the MBOX files contain large numbers of emails (thousands each).

It would be great if I can enable an option somewhere such that Thunderbird uploads several messages simultaneously to speed up the import. I'm not expecting guarantees such as "it must upload 10 emails every X/seconds" or similar, just adding some parallelism to the imports would be enough and greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

I'm restoring multiple (tens) email accounts from MBOX files using the "ImportExportToolsNG" add-on, however when I start the copy from my computer into the email account, it copies only one message at a time, sequentially, which is a problem because the MBOX files contain large numbers of emails (thousands each). It would be great if I can enable an option somewhere such that Thunderbird uploads several messages simultaneously to speed up the import. I'm not expecting guarantees such as "it must upload 10 emails every X/seconds" or similar, just adding some parallelism to the imports would be enough and greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

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No. IMAP works as it works. There are no settings other that the connections to cache, and unless you have modified that setting it will have defaulted to 5 anyway.

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In a word 'no'.

It might go a little faster if you temporarily disable global indexing at options > advanced > general > enable global search