![]() ![]() But after Thunderbird has completed downloading all of the initial emails the experience will be faster. If you want to use IMAP but also have it act like POP3 by downloading all of the emails to your local hard drive, then that slowness is something you will have to endure if you have many emails. To the OP, try disabling in the IMAP settings under "Synchronization & Storage" the option to "Keep messages in all folders." and see if your experience is faster. If that is what you want, to keep all of your email on your local hard drive, then just use POP3 instead of IMAP and if you want to keep backups on the mail server then select the option to "Leave messages on server". God knows why, that defeats the purpose of IMAP and is the behavior of POP3. Now what the OP might be experiencing, and i think what pkrycton was eluding to, is Thunderbird has an option ( on by default) to download and keep a copy of every IMAP email on the local hard drive. The emails exist on the server, stay on the server, they are not "synchronized" to anywhere. With IMAP the emails are stored on the server and your client is just a looking glass into that server. Second, IMAP is not 2-way synchronization. Where as with POP3 it downloads everything, all email headers and body, at once before you even decide what email to open. If anything, IMAP is faster because it only downloads headers at first, and when you decide to click on an email to read it then it will download just that one email body to display to you. ![]() Its the same network using the same TCP protocol. First, IMAP is not more network intensive that POP3. ![]()
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