On 4/18/2011 12:58 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:22:05 +1000 > Bob Hepple<bhepple at promptu.com> wrote: > >> A hearty vote for sylpheed from me - http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/ ... > > I'm using it now on Linux, briefly tested it on Windows. > > Thumbs-down: scanning all the folders initially takes longer than Thunderbird. Every once in a while it re-scans them, during which time the folder list is not accessible. > > Thumbs-up: But it does that in a more predictable way than Thunderbird, and there are no mysterious lock-ups of the UI (when it re-scans, it clearly says so, and only the folder list panel is greyed out, not the Composer or whatnot). > > Maybe that's what Thunderbird does - re-scans the IMAP folders, but in a more sneaky way, and it's dumb enough to put a Big Lock on the whole interface. Hmm. I opened a bug report with them: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650400 Have you tried upgrading to a current release? Usually you don't get far reporting bugs in the many-years-old versions bundled in enterprise OS distributions to the upstream source that moved on long ago. I sort-of remember similar pauses in the 2.x windows version - and having that fixed may be the reason I switched to always using Windows/Mac/phone for email, even though I can't see a problem with the Linux version right now. I thought the pauses had to do with indexing for searches and switching to the threaded view which did always seem fast. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com