On Friday, March 7, 2014 8:44:08 AM UTC-5, Daniel wrote: > On 08/03/14 00:27, jmai...@ttec.com wrote: > > > On Friday, March 7, 2014 3:35:00 AM UTC-5, Daniel wrote: > > >> On 07/03/14 09:49, jmai...@ttec.com wrote: > > >> > > >>> Best as I can tell there seems to be some kinds of email that seamonkey > >>> on win32 (version 2.15 - 2.25beta) is allergic to. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> When receiving them, it freezes. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> If there is a folder with the email, it hangs or crashes upon startup. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> I have many many folders and gigs of email and seamonkey usually consumes > >>> 2gb upon startup for a few minutes while it presumably tries to read all > >>> these folders. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> I have to spend hours finding and removing the folder and then the > >>> message, some times I also have to do that on the mail system as well. > > >> > > >>> > > >> > > >>> Is there any way to not go through this enumeration or summarization upon > >>> startup? > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> One way would be to move most of your mail out of your e-mail account!! > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> Each day, I drag my e-mail into one of about ten folders (at the same > > >> > > >> level as the inbox). Then, each year, I move all these sub-folders from > > >> > > >> the e-mail account into similar sub-folders under the Local Folders > >> account. > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> That way, SeaMonkey is not having to re-index years and years worth of > > >> > > >> e-mails, day after day after day! > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> Daniel > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 > > >> > > >> Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 Build identifier: 20140211200211 > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> or > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 > > >> > > >> SeaMonkey/2.25 Build identifier: 20140211195952 > > > > > > 95% of my mail is not in my inbox. > > > > > > Are you saying that Local Folders is treated differently then folders > > rooted under an email account? > > > > Yes, I think SM only indexes those accounts that are "open" when it is > > started up. If the Local Folders is closed (i.e. just shows as Local > > Folders), it doesn't get re-indexed. > > > > Another possibility would be to Compact your folders. When you move an > > e-mail out of the inbox into another folder, it's not really moved but > > copied into the other folder. Then, if you File->Empty Trash *and* > > File->Compact Files, all the space used by the copied e-mails is re-claimed. > > > > -- > > Daniel > > > > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 > > Firefox/28.0 SeaMonkey/2.25 Build identifier: 20140211200211 > > > > or > > > > User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:28.0) Gecko/20100101 > > SeaMonkey/2.25 Build identifier: 20140211195952
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