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thunderbird moving spam to junk very slow and freezes program

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JaniceStreet
JaniceStreet
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Takes over one minute for Thunderbird to move my spam to junk mail and Thunderbird is not Responding.

Takes over one minute for Thunderbird to move my spam to junk mail and Thunderbird is not Responding.

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Gnospen
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You could try to delete them without moving them to junk or trash (shift+del)

Also Junk-folder (as well as inbox) need to be compacted ones in a while.

JaniceStreet
JaniceStreet Question owner
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I get too many junk mail to delete all one by one.

I often just empty junk and trash and compact in box. I don't think you understand my problem.

JaniceStreet
JaniceStreet Question owner
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I have been using thunderbird for over 16 years and this problem arrived last year. Why now?

Gnospen
Gnospen
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I can only guess. Is it IMAP or POP3? What is the size of your Junk-file? Have you compacted JUNK after emptying? If IMAP, How about empty (and compact) it on server as well as trash.

An easy way of knowing the size of a folder is to activate the extra columns in view/layout/folder pane columns and choose what to see, (image)

I copy all junk to junk-folder in Local folders. (You can set it to delete at once in account settings/junk settings). I also just mark deleted as such instead of copying it to trash. That works for me.

Modified by Gnospen