TB & Multithreading

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Ezh
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TB & Multithreading

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Are there some movements to make TB support multithread?

I have 3 big mailboxes with multiple folders. Whet a PC was shutdown for 3 weeks and you start it, open TB, so when syncing mailboxes TB is very sluggish, you have to wait
when it spots syncing...
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Re: TB & Multithreading

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AFAIK it does use multiple threads for checking for new mail. However, if you have global search/indexing enabled that runs as a background process. That is what might make it sluggish, if you have lots of mail.
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AUIU Version 78 will have some use worker threads, and there has for some time been increased use of asynchronous operations. But more significant work will wait until after 78.
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