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Thunderbird slow to send or receive email

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José Micó
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Lately Thunderbird is very, very slow to send or receive email from POP3 Gmail. I've noticed the slowdown a while ago, and hoped that a reinstall would fix the issue. But it does not.

I am using a fresh snap install of 115.9.0 on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04, with calendars disabled.

This is what happens:

  • When checking or sending mail, Thunderbird spins up a single CPU core for 130 seconds.
  • The CPU core spins only if Thunderbird is on foreground (not if in background or minimized).
  • I can see on the Network Monitor that until 130 seconds have elapsed no network request are made.
  • After 130 seconds of waiting, some requests to google are made and mail is actually checked in a couple of seconds.

Seems that Thunderbird waits for something that never happens, and actually checks mail only after something times out.

How can I fix this? Do you have any suggestion of what to try?

Regards,

José

Lately Thunderbird is very, very slow to send or receive email from POP3 Gmail. I've noticed the slowdown a while ago, and hoped that a reinstall would fix the issue. But it does not. I am using a fresh snap install of 115.9.0 on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04, with calendars disabled. This is what happens: * When checking or sending mail, Thunderbird spins up a single CPU core for 130 seconds. * The CPU core spins only if Thunderbird is on foreground (not if in background or minimized). * I can see on the Network Monitor that until 130 seconds have elapsed no network request are made. * After 130 seconds of waiting, some requests to google are made and mail is actually checked in a couple of seconds. Seems that Thunderbird waits for something that never happens, and actually checks mail only after something times out. How can I fix this? Do you have any suggestion of what to try? Regards, José

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Matt
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Perhaps try https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/rebuilding-global-database or even disabling the global search and indexer.