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Thunderbird freezes temporarily while updating/checking for new emails (Ubuntu)

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Dear support team, My thunderbird freezes temporarily whenever it is checking for emails (IMAP accounts). It is as if the thread that takes care of the GUI/user interaction is blocked while the emails are being checked. I have version 102.4.2 on a Ubuntu 22.04 system (lenovo thinkpad T440s), but it has been going on for a couple of months already (so the problem must have appeared already with several earlier versions). I had exactly this problem already before a recent OS update from Ubuntu 20.04. I have also another computer with Ubuntu 20.04, where I use thunderbird, with the same IMAP accounts set up, and where I never had this problem. Do you have any idea what could potentially be going on? Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Matthias

Dear support team, My thunderbird freezes temporarily whenever it is checking for emails (IMAP accounts). It is as if the thread that takes care of the GUI/user interaction is blocked while the emails are being checked. I have version 102.4.2 on a Ubuntu 22.04 system (lenovo thinkpad T440s), but it has been going on for a couple of months already (so the problem must have appeared already with several earlier versions). I had exactly this problem already before a recent OS update from Ubuntu 20.04. I have also another computer with Ubuntu 20.04, where I use thunderbird, with the same IMAP accounts set up, and where I never had this problem. Do you have any idea what could potentially be going on? Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Matthias

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is it mail doing the blocking of a remote calendar?

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Thanks, there were indeed some calendars that I never used and forgot to delete/deactivate. I will observe if this changes anything.