Thunderbird very slow in opening email
Over the last few months Thunderbird (also SeaMonkey) has been glacial in opening email, especially email with attached signatures. I have tried and checked with different email clients and this seems to be specific to Mozilla-based products. If I use the Windows Mail App or a client like Mailbird, the same email opens right up.
I have checked and disabled my A/V programs for checking mail, and started Thunderbird in Safe mode with the same results. The problem started late last year and continues to be an aggravation.
I have trimmed my mail database by creating folders for archived mail and removing those to an offline storage area (effectively removing them from the program), but even the smaller database is slow.
Thunderbird seems to work fine on small, text only email, but when encountering the larger email (over 500Kb, which seems to be the standard size I get on one account, due to the signatures attached through MS Exchange), I have to wait up to 30 to 45 seconds to open it.
Can anyone help?
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Can you try beta from https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/channel/ ?
(note, some addons probably won't work)
I tried it, hoping it might help, but it still took over a minute to open one of the average emails I get on one of my accounts.
There's another program, mailbird, that works well, but I don't like the interface and it automatically downloads all mail, which I hate, since I use Mailwasher to screen and delete all the spam before downloading with Thunderbird.
When I open the one sample email with Thunderbird, it takes about 75 seconds to show, whereas the Windows mail app (a lousy program that comes free with Windows 10) and Mailbird take about 5 seconds.
I literally click on the email I want to open in Thunderbird, Interlink, (and Seamonkey Mail), walk away or use a different browser for a bit, and come back to see if it responds and shows up. (BTW: When opening the email in Seamonkey, the entire program; Email, Browser, etc. all stop responding until the email loads, so you can't do anything with it for that 75 seconds or so, depending on the size of the mail being opened).
I have disabled virus scanning, opened the mail app in safe mode, disabled all features, disabled remote images, reinstalled the program, all with the same results.
From what I read, this is a known issue between Mozilla products and Windows 10. Booting Windows in Safe mode (with networking) has been reported to work, but that's kind oi extreme to get use of a mail client.
I have been using Mozilla-based products since the 1990's, when it was Netscape, and I'm pretty well versed in how the program operates, and love the fact I can deep-store backups my email database where I can easily load a year and research something over a decade old. No other program does that.
But it's PAINFUL that there is some conflict that causes Mozilla-based mail to almost choke on large HTL files that have lots of graphics embedded.
I'm sure I'm not the only one experiencing this and there are people out there that likely have experience on how to get around it. As it is, the major issues are mainly with one of my main work accounts, and although I download the mail into my Thunderbird client, I am using a different one to send out responses, which I CC to get a copy for my records.