2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
Yesterday I migrated my email activities from Evolution to Thunderbird after my Evolution setup had been non operational for 4 months. Painful. Fortunately, I use gmail as my mail server, so I accessed my several email accounts via a web browser. Painful, but it worked. Thunderbird is working OK

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak
On 12/15/2011 10:25 AM, linux guy wrote: Thunderbird is working OK, but I have 2 issues. 1. It is taking forever to download the emails from one of my gmail accounts. When I Get Mail on that account, it comes back saying a You can configure TB to only download messages when required. Disabl

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread linux guy
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > You can configure TB to only download messages when required. Disable: > > Edit > Acct Settings > Some Acct > Sync & Storage > Keep Messages on this > Computer > > That will reduce the download requirements, which may or may not b

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Jake Shipton
On 15/12/11 15:25, linux guy wrote: > Yesterday I migrated my email activities from Evolution to Thunderbird > after my Evolution setup had been non operational for 4 months. > Painful. > > Fortunately, I use gmail as my mail server, so I accessed my several > email accounts via a web browser. Pa

Re: 2 Thunderbird problems. Filters and S-L-O-W downloading.

2011-12-15 Thread Emilio Lopez
> I have several thousand emails to download from that account.  Why > Thunderbird getting 200 emails at a time ?  Is this a gmail problem or > a Thunderbird problem ? I have the same behavior with a clear Thunderbird installation under Fedora 16 and POP protocol and download only headers options.