Mozilla Thunderbird

[Peltiq]

Has anyone else noticed that Thunderbird seems to have become a bit "clunky" over the past few weeks. It seems to take ages to delete anything and copying messges from the inbox to local folders (and vice versa) seems to hang.

I am using 6 IMAP email addresses with a global inbox which puts all incoming mesages into one unified folder. Thunderbird is 45.5.1 with no add-ons and compacting the folders has no effect.

Is it me or is anyone else noticing the symptoms?

Regards to all

Karen

[dragnips]

Is it me or is anyone else noticing the symptoms?

No problems here, also using 45.5.1.

[bungeejumper]

Mine's OK too. I'd be inclined to suspect the email server rather than the browser, personally. My IMAP accounts (at BT Internet and Gmail) have had periods when everything seems to run slooooowly - and, in some cases, IMAP emails appear and disappear and then magically appear again. Drives me mad. I've always assumed that data is sloshing about between servers and that the ports have been temporarily swamped, but maybe that's too literal an interpretation? It can take a week to correct itself, though.

BJ

[Peltiq]

Mine's OK too. I'd be inclined to suspect the email server rather than the browser, personally. My IMAP accounts (at BT Internet and Gmail) have had periods when everything seems to run slooooowly - and, in some cases, IMAP emails appear and disappear and then magically appear again. Drives me mad. I've always assumed that data is sloshing about between servers and that the ports have been temporarily swamped, but maybe that's too literal an interpretation? It can take a week to correct itself, though.

BJ

Interesting. My IMAP accounts are also all gmail and my ISP is BT. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird and nothing improves the situation. It's not the end of the world and apart from this slight hiccup everything works well.

Karen

[Nocton]

My Thunderbird, with several IMAP and POP accounts, started to play up as you describe last week - but only the IMAP accounts which of course have to communicate more intensively with the ISP's web servers. It turned out to be a Plusnet problem and took then several days to resolve. So as others have said, probably check the service status of your internet account.

[Infrasonic]

Use the webmail access as an interim stopgap?...

[Peltiq]

Everything is back as it should be now, all very strange.

Thanks to those who commented.

Karen

[addycres]

Also running the same version on a Linux box, with a POP mailboxes, email server is Timico (previously Newnet). All has been OK.