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I have been using Thunderbird since forever and I am mostly happy. I have 5 email accounts and access them all via Imap. One thing that annoys me is that for

• extra88 7y ago
  To debug startup performance, I would see if having one account instead of five makes a difference. I haven't used Thunderbird for a long time but if the delay is due to slow responses from one mail provider in particular, perhaps you can set that account to be offline by default and explicitly take it online and check for mail after Thunderbird starts, while you check your other accounts.
• smhenderson 7y ago
  Have you tried running it using strace?
• mixmastamyk 7y ago
  Deleting old mail and "compacting folders" might help. Vacuuming the sqlite files has helped me in the past: killall thunderbird find ~/.thund_folder/ -name \*.sqlite -print -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \; Defragmenting the filesystem may still be a thing, depending on your set up.
• wsmwk 7y ago
  Thunderbird startup should not at all be affected by it's proximity to reboot. However, Thunderbird startup can be IO intensive so anything impacting IO will affect TB start time.
• beagle3 7y ago
  In the past, the file "panacea.dat" could get corrupted, and this was result in a working albeit very slow Thunderbird; deleting it would make it run quickly again. (But .. don't trust a stranger on the internet telling you to delete a file. Do your own research)