mail clients slow on Linux

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Thanks for your help!!


At 10p the problem persisted.  At 3a I could not sleep so I turned off 
my entire network for about 20 seconds (the windows cure).  Maybe it is 
a coincidence, however everything works much better now.




On 2014-05-28 00:31, Stephen Partington wrote:
> 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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> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
> 
> Stephen
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