I check my mail on at least three computers now (work, home. laptop), so IMAP is really useful for me – centralized access eliminates most synchronization problems, and Thunderbird’s available for most platforms, so my experience is pretty consistent. Consistently crappy, that is – everything worked great, but deleting messages over IMAP took forever. With the amount of spam I get these days, email triage was really sucking.
This morning I noticed things were moving a lot quicker. I was about to email my host’s support team to find out what they did when I realized I’d emptied my trash the day before for the first time since moving to IMAP. There were around 30,000 emails in there. Now things work faster. Go figure.
So there you go – for faster IMAP performance in Thunderbird, empty your trash early and often.
[tags]IMAP, Thunderbird[/tags]