I'm connecting to the mail.msu.edu system using Mac Mail over IMAP.  One of my folders has 2060 messages and comes up pretty quickly, as do the rest of my folders (smaller volumes).  However these folders are of course cached on my local system after I access them or put messages into them.  

Is Thunderbird holding a local copy of the messages and it's still operating slowly?

-t


On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:15 PM, James T Brown wrote:

> Yes.
> 
> I have seen this behavior pop up from time to time, but definitely
> has been more troublesome lately.   I connect via IMAP and also
> notice that there are often significant delays when accessing
> folders other than my Inbox...  not sure if this is just a Thunderbird
> thing or not, but definitely a bit annoying.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> We are an MSU email shop and many are on Thunderbird 3.1.7 (the latest as of now).
>> 
>> I'm getting reports that mail.msu.edu times out on putting messages in the sent folder and/or sending outgoing messages, causing much frustration.  Has anyone else ran into this issue?
>> 
>> Peter Murray
>> James Madison
> 
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