Good morning,
We are a company with around 10 employees and we use Thunderbird as our email client across multiple workstations. Some of our IMAP-configured mailboxes are… (read more)
Good morning,
We are a company with around 10 employees and we use Thunderbird as our email client across multiple workstations. Some of our IMAP-configured mailboxes are used on several PCs and have grown quite large, causing local storage space issues.
I recently discovered that Thunderbird offers settings to manage synchronization more efficiently — for example, by limiting the download of messages to the last X days (e.g., 30 days), or by excluding certain folders from automatic synchronization. I’m referring specifically to the options under:
Account Settings > Synchronization & Storage > Advanced…, and also the Disk Space section.
I tried changing these settings on an already configured account, but the changes don’t seem to take effect — messages are still being fully synchronized.
I would like to know:
If I’m doing something wrong in the process;
If these changes only apply when configuring a new account;
What is the recommended way to manage large IMAP mailboxes in a business environment to reduce local storage impact and improve performance.
Unfortunately, our email provider doesn’t offer alternative solutions unless we completely change the IMAP configuration, which we would prefer to avoid.
Thank you in advance for your support — I look forward to your response.
Best regards,