Thunderbird Slow Checking Mail

I have Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 and Avast home latest version.

Thunderbird seems very slow when checking for mail (4 accounts) and downloading. I make this comparison against Opera and OE 6.

Has any body any experience of this either with Avast Home or otherwise. Any solutions?

Thank you

Terry

By all accounts you need to regularly compress your email folders in Thunderbird as deleted files aren’t actually removed (just the reference to them) until you compress the folders.

Sorry I’m not a thunderbird user, so I don’t know how you compress the folders or if this is the correct terminology.

  1. Is the Standard Shield’s sensitivity set to High level?

  2. You can add TB files to the Exclusion lists of the Standard Shield provider if you’re using the Internet Mail provider of avast. Something like:
    c:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\Thunderbird*
    c:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird*

But, remember, this is not a solution, just a workaround.

Many thanks for your reply.

Just a bit puzzled, are you hinting that there is a problem with Thunderbird and slow mail checking? Certainly there is on my PC, but is this more general, is it linked to Avast?

The work around you suggest doesn’t it leave the mail folders vulnerable to viruses?

Many thanks for your help

Terry

I’m saying that Standard Shield could have a slow TB files scanning.
I’m NOT saying that the Internet Mail provider scanning of TB is slow.

No, I’m suggesting you remove the scanning from Standard Shield.
The mail will be scanned, when downloaded (or sended), by the Internet Mail provider.

Oh, sorry, I’m not an expert on mail problems. Maybe Alan or Vojtech could help you here…

Please see:

http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=23424.msg194826#msg194826