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My email is frustratingly slow, but only sometimes. I do almost all my work on email, so this is a problem.

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smcmaster
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My server is national capital freenet. I don't know if it's NCF or Thunderbird causing the problem. Early morning is good, then there are slow times during the day. Firefox has recently started putting a red bar across some emails sent to me with multiple recipients telling me they are dangerous. I know these emails are safe -- they've already gone through a good NCF spammer and I've received emails from these people many times before. Could this new warning system be slowing things down? Thanks.

My server is national capital freenet. I don't know if it's NCF or Thunderbird causing the problem. Early morning is good, then there are slow times during the day. Firefox has recently started putting a red bar across some emails sent to me with multiple recipients telling me they are dangerous. I know these emails are safe -- they've already gone through a good NCF spammer and I've received emails from these people many times before. Could this new warning system be slowing things down? Thanks.

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Wayne Mery
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Start *Windows'* safe mode with networking enabled - win10 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12376/windows-10-start-your-pc-in-safe-mode - win8 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17076/windows-8-startup-settings-safe-mode - win7 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17419/windows-7-advanced-startup-options-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-7 - XP https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/boot_failsafe.mspx

Still In Windows safe mode, start thunderbird in safe mode - https://support.mozilla.org/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird

Does problem go away?

smcmaster
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Thank you, I will try it. I'll have to use email over a few hours to find out if this works, since it gets sluggish in the afternoons and evenings, mostly. I'll get back to you once I've tried.