Re: Is anybody working on Mulberry now?

On Tue Dec 19 2017 14:47:36 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), Brian Reid
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Thunderbird 52.5.0 with a fast client running macOS 10.13.3 and
> a fast server running Dovecot 2.2.33.
> It freezes up (infinite beach ball) several times a day, requiring
> force quit and relaunch.

All this means is there is something wrong with your TB installation.
Either you have a bad Addon (does it happen when starting with Addons
Disabled?), or something seriously borked in your profile (create a
fresh new profile), or possibly you have a lot of online Calendars with
lots of items on them (that is one scenario that can cause serious
performance problems).

> It takes 10-20 minutes to start up when I launch it,

Yup, something seriously wrong. This is simply not a general Thunderbird
problem.

> Its searching ability is so slow that sometimes I start a search and
> go to bed and the search hasn't finished by morning. (on mailboxes
> containing less than 6000 messages).
Are you doing Body searches on unindexed IMAP stores? No wonder...

> It is awful.

Sounds like it, but the problem is NOT 'Thunderbird' in the generic
sense, there is definitely something wrong that is most likely fixable.

> Also I have never figured out its message-composition features. On
> almost every message I send, it changes font in the middle of a word
> here and there. I'm sure there is some logic to how it does that, but
> I've never managed to figure it out.

This (the Composer) is one of the biggest bugs it has had for a long
time. The good news, many of these most 'in your face' ones have been
recently fixed (some available now, others not until the next release,
version 59, coming in a month or two).

The problem you're experiencing has to do with getting outside the
'Body' tags by clicking too far down into the signature section.

But this problem is easily avoidable (I know because I NEVER encounter
it)... bottom line... either inline post (don't top-post, and quote only
the relevant part of the message, by simply highlighting it before
clicking Reply), or if you are going to top-post, make sure there are
blank spaces between your starting text and the signature.

> I can't wait to try something else. I have Pine on a nearby machine and
> usually use that for searching and folder mongering.

I never need to Body search, so searching is blazingly fast on my IMAP
folders with 20-50,000 messages.

If I wanted/needed Body search capability, I'd use SOLR with my Dovecot
server, but I don't need it, so never took the time to figure out
getting it installed and running.