On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 02:30:10PM -0500, Jeff wrote:
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:
I'm a Thunderbird user almost since day one, but now I'm looking for something else. For whatever reason, it doesn't work well for me - every once in a while it becomes non-responsive (UI completely frozen for several seconds, CPU usage goes to 100%) and I just can't afford to waste time waiting for the email software to start working again.
By default Thunderbird creates a local cache for IMAP accounts -- for large accounts, this can be problematic. Have you tried disabling the local synchronization?
Account Settings -> Synch & Storage -> Uncheck "Keep messages for this account on this computer"
There is another setting that can apparently cause high CPU usage. Preferences>Advanced>General>Advanced Configuration>Enable Global Search and Indexer (don't have Thunderbird handy, so that path might be slightly off.)