mail clients slow on Linux

[Stephen Partington]

If you are using IMAP the connection can have a significant affect as well.

But yor setup should be ok. Maybe start poking around with logging and see
if there is anything that stands out with your issues.

On Tuesday, May 27, 2014, <techlists at phpcoderusa.com> wrote:

>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on a Dell i5 w/ 8gb ram, Thunderbird 24.4
> and KMail 4.13.
>
> I was running Thunderbird and had problems removing 200 emails at a time
> when there was a lot of them, say 15,000 in the folder.  My old slow Win 7
> laptop had no problem removing several hundred at a time.  I actually had
> to use my laptop to deal with removing emails.
>
> Today I was unable to send email because Thunderbird said it could not
> write to the sent folder.  Nothing had changed as far as I know. From
> searching I found this was a problem with version 17. Server time out
> errors have been a problem today also.
>
> I was thinking that moving to KMail might be better.  Not a complete fix.
>  I have an email account that has almost 12,000 emails in the inbox.  It
> pulled in the headers, but not the bodies.  When I go to am email that is
> dated before today it take 10 - 20.....30 or more seconds to retrieve the
> body.
>
> Maybe my expectations are out of line.... I was thinking things should
> work faster given the power my machine has and that I am on a high speed
> connection.  Speed has been an issue for a while... since switching to
> Linux.
>
> Mail is much more responsive on my laptop running Win 7 with a much less
> powerful CPU, slower HD and 1/2 the ram.  I'm puzzled as to how that could
> be.
>
> Any suggestions much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
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