[HLUG] Thunderbird issue today?

Sarah Chard sarah at streetents.co.uk
Tue Aug 9 07:57:09 UTC 2016


Hi Julian

sharing time between uk and france at the moment - but yes enjoying time 
in france when we can!

Sarah

On 08/08/16 11:46, Julian Robbins wrote:
> Hi again
>
> Thanks for your posts.
>
> It was actually a troublesome email that was copied to each account 
> that had issues. I had to remove it in Roundcube webmail client, then 
> delete from the Deleted items mailbox, (as otherwise it will give same 
> problem again - it doesnt matter what folder its in).
>
> Then restart Thunderbird, let it choke but eventually it clears the 
> malformed mail(s) out of the way and is finally clean ...
>
> But I haven't seen this manifested so badly for many a year ...
>
> Thanks for your help though ..
>
> Sarah: Have you moved? Hope you are enjoying life in France
>
> Thanks
>
> Julian
>
> On 8 August 2016 at 10:50, Sarah Chard via Herefordshire 
> <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk 
> <mailto:herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>> wrote:
>
>     no nothing unusual and updated earlier this morning
>
>     Sarah
>
>
>     On 08/08/16 10:05, Julian Robbins via Herefordshire wrote:
>
>         Hi
>
>         Today I've noticed a massive load on Thunderbird as soon as I
>         start the
>         application. My colleagues had the same problem, so I
>         initially thought it
>         was probably the same rogue email that had been copied and
>         received by us
>         that is causing Thunderbird to get heavily loaded and
>         unresponsive.
>
>         But I'm asking just in case its a Thunderbird application
>         update instead
>         that has really screwed things up. So if anyone is using
>         Thunderbird can
>         you let me know if you're experiencing massive slowdowns and
>         heavy load
>         with it this morning ?
>
>         Thanks
>
>         Julian
>
>
>
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