1041169 - Moving mail from one mailbox to another is extremely slow

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: General, defect)

Description

[Tom Cuddeback]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 SeaMonkey/2.26.1 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140612174402

Steps to reproduce:

I frequently move blocks of email from one mailbox [folder] to another. Sometimes a few thousand emails are involved, most times it is 10-20 but even for 10-20 emails or sometimes even a single email, it will take from 1 minute to as much as 45 minutes for the task to complete. Moving the same blocks of email using Netscape [yes I still have a working copy of the Netscape suite running on one of my Windows XP systems] takes from a couple of seconds to perhaps a couple of minutes for several thousand mails to get moved


Actual results:

 Sometimes a few thousand emails are involved, most times it is 10-20 but even for 10-20 emails or sometimes even a single email, it will take from 1 minute to as much as 45 minutes for the task to complete. Moving the same blocks of email using Netscape [yes I still have a working copy of the Netscape suite running on one of my Windows XP systems] takes from a couple of seconds to perhaps a couple of minutes for several thousand mails to get moved


Expected results:

The performance I would expect is for a few messages to move almost instantaneously and several thousand messages I would anticipate the move to complete in perhaps 5-10 minutes at most

Comment 1

[therube]

POP or IMAP?

Do you Compact (regularly or whatever)?

Do you know if the situation is the same in Thunderbird?

Comment 2

[Tom Cuddeback]

I do compact regularly and especially after moving a large block of emails. While I don't have Thunderbird installed on any of my computers, a couple of my customers use it and the experience is similar in terms of moving mail from one box to another

Comment 3

[Tom Cuddeback]

The email accounts that I use in Seamonkey are all POP3 so the storage movements are local, not on a remote server.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

likely a duplicate

Comment 5

[Rainer Bielefeld]

Without STR its more or less impossible toget some progress here.

I found somepossible, but not obvious related ones or DUPs with [this query] (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&list_id=15498360&short_desc=mov%20mail%20slow&longdesc=mov%20mail%20slow)