Please click on your junk folder. How many emails are in the folder?

Hi

thanks

I constantly empty my junk folders so most of the time they have less than 50 messages.

I have just tested moving 4 messages to a junk folder containing about 25 messages and it took about 3 secs. Maybe Thunderbird has to connect to the smtp before moving?

thms said

Maybe Thunderbird has to connect to the smtp before moving?

Not a chance. Was it faster when you were not on Windows 10?

BTW, why aren't you marking messages as Junk? (Moving them is rather strange)

Yes I seem to remember this being faster but I'm not completely sure if this started right when I switched to Windows 10 or a few months after that. I've been using Thunderbird for years. And it's been at least a couple of months since I noticed this, actually I think it's even more than a couple of months.

Now, regarding marking as junk, I was having this issue as well in that, when I marked as junk, messages were not being moved to the junk folder, they just stayed there marked in the main inbox. That's why I was manually moving them to junk.

So I have just tried to investigate further, clicking on the junk settings for the account, I had "Move new junk messages to: Junk folder on myemail@email.com" checked so I thought this would automatically move messages marked as junk to the junk folder but that was not happening.

Now clicking on the "Global Junk Preferences" button, i had the "When I mark messages as junk" checkbox unchecked, I checked that (also selecting the "move them to the account's junk folder radio option selected) now it automatically moves them to the junk folder and it seems super fast.

I thought the each account's junk settings would overwrite the Global Junk Preferences but seems that it's not the case. Or maybe "Move new junk messages to: Junk folder" setting is just those that Thunderbird think is junk and not related to the messages I mark as junk.

thank you for the help.