Hallo? Is this thing still on? Let's see. I use Betterbird and recently it's started to be slower at logging into my email accounts with imap. Not glacially slow, but not as nippy as it was. I have googled but I'd quite like some plain English advice about what I could try to speed it up a notch. Bev. P.S. And while I'm here, I have two Alug accounts. How do I ditch one of them?
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:32:15PM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Hallo? Is this thing still on? Let's see. I use Betterbird and recently it's started to be slower at logging into my email accounts with imap. Not glacially slow, but not as nippy as it was. I have googled but I'd quite like some plain English advice about what I could try to speed it up a notch.
Yes, "this thing" is still on. :-) I've not got anything very specific to offer on how to speed up your IMAP login though. Ah, Betterbird is "Thunderbird improved". My initial guess (I don't use anything like you to read mail) is that the most likely culprit for slowness is large mail folders somewhere. For example is your trash/deleted folder huge?
Bev.
P.S. And while I'm here, I have two Alug accounts. How do I ditch one of them?
Stop using it, remove all trace from your system, then it shouldn't bother you any more should it? If both have the same E-Mail address then change the E-Mail for one of them to something that will send E-Mails into the wide blue yonder so you never see them again. -- Chris Green
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 07:12:43PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Stop using it, remove all trace from your system, then it shouldn't bother you any more should it? If both have the same E-Mail address then change the E-Mail for one of them to something that will send E-Mails into the wide blue yonder so you never see them again.
Please don't do this kind of thing, just unsubscribe the email from the list, if not it can create work for the admins and I won't speak from the others but I am grumpy and will mutter about it. If anyone has questions for the admins about subscriptions then the email address can be found on https://lists.alug.org.uk to get in touch with us. Adam --
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 07:12:43PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Stop using it, remove all trace from your system, then it shouldn't bother you any more should it? If both have the same E-Mail address then change the E-Mail for one of them to something that will send E-Mails into the wide blue yonder so you never see them again.
Please don't do this kind of thing, just unsubscribe the email from the list, if not it can create work for the admins and I won't speak from the others but I am grumpy and will mutter about it.
If anyone has questions for the admins about subscriptions then the email address can be found on https://lists.alug.org.uk to get in touch with us.
Yes, sorry, I wasn't being *very* serious when I said that. It might be an approach if you were really stuck when trying to disconnect yourself from somewhere. -- Chris Green
On Sun, 2025-01-26 at 15:48 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 07:12:43PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Stop using it, remove all trace from your system, then it shouldn't bother you any more should it? If both have the same E-Mail address then change the E-Mail for one of them to something that will send E-Mails into the wide blue yonder so you never see them again.
Please don't do this kind of thing, just unsubscribe the email from the list, if not it can create work for the admins and I won't speak from the others but I am grumpy and will mutter about it.
If anyone has questions for the admins about subscriptions then the email address can be found on https://lists.alug.org.uk to get in touch with us.
Yes, sorry, I wasn't being *very* serious when I said that. It might be an approach if you were really stuck when trying to disconnect yourself from somewhere.
Can I reassure folk that I wasn't about to do this anyway, as I am using that other email address and hope to continue doing so! I have moved quite a chunk of emails into local folders and it's still slow. (There are about 200 on one address, 400 on the others.) Bev.
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 05:52:24PM +0000, Bev Nicolson wrote:
On Sun, 2025-01-26 at 15:48 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Adam Bower wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 07:12:43PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
Stop using it, remove all trace from your system, then it shouldn't bother you any more should it? If both have the same E-Mail address then change the E-Mail for one of them to something that will send E-Mails into the wide blue yonder so you never see them again.
Please don't do this kind of thing, just unsubscribe the email from the list, if not it can create work for the admins and I won't speak from the others but I am grumpy and will mutter about it.
If anyone has questions for the admins about subscriptions then the email address can be found on https://lists.alug.org.uk to get in touch with us.
Yes, sorry, I wasn't being *very* serious when I said that. It might be an approach if you were really stuck when trying to disconnect yourself from somewhere.
Can I reassure folk that I wasn't about to do this anyway, as I am using that other email address and hope to continue doing so!
:-)
I have moved quite a chunk of emails into local folders and it's still slow. (There are about 200 on one address, 400 on the others.)
To my mind 200 and 400 emails are almost trivial numbers, I don't think that's causing your speed problem. -- Chris Green
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I have moved quite a chunk of emails into local folders and it's still slow. (There are about 200 on one address, 400 on the others.)
To my mind 200 and 400 emails are almost trivial numbers, I don't think that's causing your speed problem.
Just wondering something. On Windows* (at least this was the case decades ago) if you uninstalled then reinstalled a misbehaving program all the settings stayed in place. Does the same work with an email client on Linux? And is that even worth trying, more to the point? Bev *sorry.
On 25/01/2025 18:32, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Hallo? Is this thing still on? Let's see. I use Betterbird and recently it's started to be slower at logging into my email accounts with imap. Not glacially slow, but not as nippy as it was. I have googled but I'd quite like some plain English advice about what I could try to speed it up a notch.
Yes, it still works! I also use Betterbird, and I've never had a problem with it. I also have many thousands of IMAP emails, and it's not slow either. For instance, my ALUG folder alone has more than 17,500 emails in it, all stored remotely (time I archived it!). Cheers, Laurie. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 2025-01-31 at 15:56 +0000, Laurie Brown wrote:
On 25/01/2025 18:32, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Hallo? Is this thing still on? Let's see. I use Betterbird and recently it's started to be slower at logging into my email accounts with imap. Not glacially slow, but not as nippy as it was. I have googled but I'd quite like some plain English advice about what I could try to speed it up a notch.
Yes, it still works!
I also use Betterbird, and I've never had a problem with it. I also have many thousands of IMAP emails, and it's not slow either. For instance, my ALUG folder alone has more than 17,500 emails in it, all stored remotely (time I archived it!).
Cheers, Laurie.
It was Betterbird. But there was an update today and that seems to have fixed it. Bev
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