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[Goose]

I just made a sneaky edit. I'm angry at every bit of software on my dying PC.

So angry I can't even spell.

[MarcLister]

Oooh sneaky.

What layout do you have TB in? I have mine in Wide so I get the full benefit of my widescreen monitor BABY!

Oooh: http://lifehacker.com/358105/what-do...in-thunderbird

[Garp]

Originally Posted by MarcLister

Would you mind expanding on that or perhaps PMing me? I quite like Thunderbird so I'd like to know what is bad about the IMAP code.

Hmm.. its a little hard to provide specifics, but our best guess is that Thunderbird has a rediculously sensitive IMAP timeout on it. We've seen repeated problems with people that try and delete more than a thousand or so e-mails from a folder. Our best guess is that if the server doesn't respond satisfactorily within xx minutes it opens another connection to the server and repeats the command. We can pick stuff out of the logs that prove its doing multiple connections. Usually tied in with a staff member deleting a few k of e-mails is the server's load going up through the roof, and exim then dropping out. We can change exim to be less sensitive, but when thunderbird does its thang the server starts struggling anyway so Exim refusing to accept an e-mail is usually the first indicator we get to a problem.
I get somewhere in the region of 4k - 5k e-mails a day, as does everyone else on my team, and whilst most of us use Thunderbird on a day to day basis, all of us now use the program "mutt" to do e-mail deletion as it does it without even batting an eyelid.

The other thing sorely wrong with Thunderbird is that in its default implementation it doesn't automatically check subfolders. You have to go into about:config and edit a setting inside there before it'll do it.

[MarcLister]

Hmm sounds a bit familiar. I sometimes get a message telling me that imap.messagingengine.com or imap.gmail.com isn't an IMAP server. No, that'd be why its imap.gmail.com then?

Surely the IMAP timeout can be edited in the config?

[Garp]

Originally Posted by MarcLister

Hmm sounds a bit familiar. I sometimes get a message telling me that imap.messagingengine.com or imap.gmail.com isn't an IMAP server. No, that'd be why its imap.gmail.com then?

Surely the IMAP timeout can be edited in the config?

Yup it does that fairly frequently to me.
As far as can see it can't be edited in config, looks to be hard coded somewhere.

[MarcLister]

Hmm another disadvantage to TB then.