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internet:mail:thunderbird_performance [2013/04/18 10:27]
gcooper created 		internet:mail:thunderbird_performance [2013/04/18 11:13]
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 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Application_not_responding http://kb.mozillazine.org/Application_not_responding
  
-===== Turn Off Indexing =====+===== Performance Enhancing Tips =====
  
-**Tools -> Options -> Advanced -> General -> Advanced Configuration -> Enable Global Search and Indexer**+==== Delete and Re-Create Mail Summary Files ==== 
 + 
 +  - Exit Thunderbird. 
 +  - Find your profile folder. 
 +  - Open the folder containing your stored messages. 
 +  - Select the *.msf files and delete them. 
 +  - Restart Thunderbird. 
 +  - Wait for Thunderbird to recreate the mail summary file(s). 
 + 
 +For example, if you are using the Global Inbox, this would be the ''Local Folders'' folder inside the ''Mail'' folder. Otherwise, it may be a folder named after the mail server inside the ''Mail'' or ''ImapMail'' folder. For example, "pop.gmail.com" if you're using gmail. 
 + 
 +==== Expunge (compact) Folders ==== 
 + 
 +http://kb.mozillazine.org/Compacting_folders 
 + 
 +=== Manually === 
 + 
 +Tools -> Account Settings -> Server Settings -> "When I delete a message" 
 + 
 +In TB, select a top-level account on the left, then: 
 + 
 +File -> Compact Folders 
 + 
 +=== Automatically === 
 + 
 +Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Clean up ("Expunge") Inbox on Exit 
 + 
 +Preferences -> Advanced -> Network & Disk Space -> "Compact folders when it will save over X MB" 
 + 
 +  * The TB UI may 'hang' noticeably during expunge operations 
 +  * Enable automatic expunging of all folders 
 +    * Smaller numbers will cause TB to compact folders more often 
 +    * Larger numbers will cause TB to compact folders less often 
 +    * 20MB is the default 
 +    * 1MB is often recommended 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 + 
 +==== Turn Off Indexing ==== 
 + 
 +Preferences -> Advanced -> General -> Advanced Configuration -> Enable Global Search and Indexer 
 + 
 +==== Turn Off Junk Filtering ==== 
 + 
 +Account Settings -> (each account) -> Junk Settings 
 + 
 +Preferences -> Security -> Junk 
 + 
 +''Reset Training Data'' can fix some problems and is global affecting all accounts.
  
  
internet/mail/thunderbird_performance.txt · Last modified: 2014/01/08 11:04 by gcooper

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