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, 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 >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1] > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss