Spinning circle constantly in top tab when click on inbox
We have 5 imap accounts setup in Thunderbird across 2 computers, but when you click on the inbox of any account, the blue spinning circle is constantly in the top tab. If you click on the account name in the left column it disappears and goes back to the standard mailbox icon. It seems clicking on the inbox is making it work constantly which is slowing it all down. Why is this happening and how can we fix it?
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Your question is a bit like, "how long is a piece of string" there are many possible causes, so lets start by looking at the activity manager.
Right click the toolbar at the top of the windows and select menu bar if you do not have the main menu bar visible.
On the Tools menu, select activity manager. If there are errors like no server, scroll down until you see green icons. there whatever Thunderbird is doing, getting mail, updating indexes etc should show. What does it say it is doing?
Clear the list and select the inbox again? what is it ding? If anything.
There isn't anything in the activity manager that looks suspicious... just green ticks for emails downloaded and another entry for 2 messages moved to a folder. I cleared the list and clicked on the inbox again and checked the activity manager but nothing comes up in the list. It just seems really strange...
I have an inkling of what might be the problem. What anti virus do you use? Does it do "on access scanning?"
Apparently there's no anti-virus on there... anything else to check?
Windows 10 without any anti virus... rubbish it will have Windows defender if nothing else.