Thunderbird so slow ... found the cause!

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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I was having huge slowdowns with Thunderbird 3.0.4 - taking up to 15 seconds to show a message and as much or more to delete the same message! Firefox 3.6.3 was much slower as well.

After some playing around with Avast!, I found that if I stop the “Behavior Shield”, everything speeds up back to normal.

I am curious - is there something else that could be at the root of this slowdown as well? And am I at terrible risk by doing what I did?

Thanks for any input.

I have a Toshiba A200 laptop running Vista Home Premium, Thunderbird 3.0.4, Firefox 3.6.3, Avast! 5.0.545

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Follow-up … I set my laptop to reboot, went upstairs and came down 30 min. later. The email was nice and perky; Firefox popped up like it used to. I checked Avast! and … ALL services were on!

So, in retrospect, maybe all I needed was a reboot?! So much anguish, maybe such a simple solution. Why does it take us so long to remember the simpler things about these machines?!!

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Hey, my thunderbird will not connect to my mail server because it times out. What are your port settings? how did you get Avast to scan Thunderbird e-mails? Mine will not scan anything and just slows everything down.

I posted screen shots of my settings in another thread if you want to see them.
http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=60497.0

Does anyone know?

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Hi aname,
I looked at the other thread and your screenshots. Usually there are no problems with avast and thunderbird, but if I remember right there are some special settings for gmail…!??
I think Logos knows them…
asyn

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I fixed it!!!

In Avast my SMTP needed to be set to TLS for both Live mail and for Gmail. Also under Avast troubleshooting I needed to add 587,25 to SMTP ports.

Thanks Asyn!

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You’re welcome…!
asyn