Hi,
I see a continuous but slow (2KB/s) use of the network. I know it is imap and gmail, because iptraf
shows it (we-in-f109.1e100.net:993). I see a counter on the status bar that says “394218 items
remaining”, with the number decreasing slowly. What items? What is it doing?
Huh. While I was writing this, and looking at the posts stored on the gmail account, the count has
increased to 437000. Could it be the number of emails in the gmail account? It has a lot, from the
openSUSE mail lists. I don’t think I have that many, but perhaps… :-?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 “Asparagus” GM (bombadillo))
On 08/11/2012 09:05 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see a continuous but slow (2KB/s) use of the network. I know it is imap and gmail, because iptraf
> shows it (we-in-f109.1e100.net:993). I see a counter on the status bar that says “394218 items
> remaining”, with the number decreasing slowly. What items? What is it doing?
>
> Huh. While I was writing this, and looking at the posts stored on the gmail account, the count has
> increased to 437000. Could it be the number of emails in the gmail account? It has a lot, from the
> openSUSE mail lists. I don’t think I have that many, but perhaps… :-?
>
I have always assumed that was the TrackerBird add-on, that indexes
thunderbird emails for quick searching. The reason that I thought that
was that when I disabled that add-on, I noticed the countdown on the
“items remaining” stopped.
On 2012-08-11 08:22, golson765 wrote:
> On 08/11/2012 09:05 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see a continuous but slow (2KB/s) use of the network. I know it is imap and gmail, because iptraf
>> shows it (we-in-f109.1e100.net:993). I see a counter on the status bar that says “394218 items
>> remaining”, with the number decreasing slowly. What items? What is it doing?
>>
>> Huh. While I was writing this, and looking at the posts stored on the gmail account, the count has
>> increased to 437000. Could it be the number of emails in the gmail account? It has a lot, from the
>> openSUSE mail lists. I don’t think I have that many, but perhaps… :-?
>>
> I have always assumed that was the TrackerBird add-on, that indexes thunderbird emails for quick
> searching. The reason that I thought that was that when I disabled that add-on, I noticed the
> countdown on the “items remaining” stopped.
I can’t disable it.
I do, press restart, but th. does not reappear, I have to kill a remaining process. I restart Th,
and still the addon page says I need to restart Th to disable the tracker bird. I restart it again,
same thing. And the counter with number is still working.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 “Asparagus” GM (bombadillo))
On 2012-08-11 14:26, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I can’t disable it.
>
> I do, press restart, but th. does not reappear, I have to kill a remaining process. I restart Th,
> and still the addon page says I need to restart Th to disable the tracker bird. I restart it again,
> same thing. And the counter with number is still working.
I restarted it a third time, no go.
I uninstalled “tracker-miner-thunderbird” using YaST. Now Thunderbird comes up much faster.
Thank you!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 “Asparagus” GM (bombadillo))
I don’t know if it is still the case or not, but Thunderbird when connected to Gmail via IMAP would have all of the folders listed as well as a Gmail (or “All Mail”), or something similar that included… all the folders you have in Gmail. In essence this would duplicate all of the emails you have to download and index!
If you right-click on the offending folder, you could set the properties so it would not synchronize this folder and leave you with only one version being synchronized. I think this includes the emails accessed via the browser (like drafts) so you can either stop it for the entire folder, or the specific folders.
I am sorry I cannot be more detailed, I don’t have Thunderbird in front of me, but I do remember there being this issue with some email client (could be Outlook or an older version of Thunderbird).
The third post goes over this : http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1680725
On 2012-08-22 19:46, dragonbite wrote:
> If you right-click on the offending folder, you could set the
> properties so it would not synchronize this folder and leave you with
> only one version being synchronized. I think this includes the emails
> accessed via the browser (like drafts) so you can either stop it for the
> entire folder, or the specific folders.
Interesting idea.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
I always thought the message countdown was the download of messages from the mail server.
Anyway I too have had this problem and the solution was to remove “tracker-miner-thunderbird” entirely. Can’t see the benefit of indexing messages if there is a constant CPU utilisation of 20% from Thunderbird, and a general all round resource hog.
On 2013-03-19 18:46, bananaosx wrote:
>
> I always thought the message countdown was the download of messages from
> the mail server.
> Anyway I too have had this problem and the solution was to remove
> “tracker-miner-thunderbird” entirely. Can’t see the benefit of indexing
> messages if there is a constant CPU utilisation of 20% from Thunderbird,
> and a general all round resource hog.
Absolutely.
I like indexing, I often need to search for emails, but not with that
penalty (both cpu and network).
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)