Thunderbird's slow scrolling

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:24 PM, J. Limon <jlimon at eml.cc> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote:
>> J. Limon wrote:
>>> Anyone else experience that Thunderbird is extremely slow when
>>> scrolling through an Inbox? Perhaps THIS inbox? (The one you're
>>> looking at.)
>>>
>>> For me, when I'm on a mailing list inbox, scrolling through the
>>> message list is painful at best. The messages themselves load fine
>>> because I have Thunderbird download all messages locally to save
>>> bandwidth (I'm using fastmail.fm IMAP) but the message list column's
>>> scrolling is dreadfully slow.
>>>
>>> Google says I'm not the only one, just wondering if anyone has any
>>> insight
>>
>> I'm not experiencing this problem.  How do you have your inbox set
>> up?  Do all of your inbound emails go there?  Have you though about
>> setting up message rules and filtering out the emails from this
>> mailing list and put them in a separate folder?  That's how I have it
>> set up.  Also when was the last time you compacted your mail folders?
>>
>
> I'm using IMAP, set to download all my mail for "offline" viewing to
> save on IMAP bandwidth.
>
> We're not talking a huge mailbox here.. I delete my mailing list stuff
> every few weeks.. it's the application itself. Any time a scrollbar is
> present in the messages column, it's VERY jaggedy. The other window
> columns scroll fine (such as the compose window I am typing in.)

Thunderbird seems plenty fast on all my systems, and I use IMAP to
connect to about six different email servers.

Try turning off the feature to download mail for offline viewing. I
don't really see how that can SAVE on IMAP bandwidth, because it will
have to download every message and attachment you receive, whether you
look at it or not. On an active list like this one there are probably
lots of messages you never want to open.