[ale] Thunderbird Slowness (more info)

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

On 08/09/2013 10:14 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> In your previous thread you mentioned that the size of your mailbox 
> was a few GB, and others responded that theirs was similar.
>
> Do you have all of your messages in the same folder?  Some people seem 
> to use their inbox count as some kind of badge of honor, and I think 
> the number of messages in a folder would have much more to do with 
> slowness than the pure size of the entire mail directory -- kind of 
> like how people complain a web browser is slow, even though they have 
> 75 tabs open.


I do have sub folders, but some are still big.  One of my inboxes has 
37,000 unread!