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Question: What causes Thunderbird to show "not responding" when deleting messages

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Program does not respond for a few minutes when deleting one or more messages. Messages downloaded by POP3 account. There are no add-ins & plugins were temp. deactivated. Delete works OK in safe mode but not in normal mode.

Program does not respond for a few minutes when deleting one or more messages. Messages downloaded by POP3 account. There are no add-ins & plugins were temp. deactivated. Delete works OK in safe mode but not in normal mode.

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It is usually your anti virus software. Try telling it to leave your email alone.

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Isisombululo esiKhethiweyo

It is usually your anti virus software. Try telling it to leave your email alone.

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Thanks Airmail - you were right on: McAfee showed me how to disable Real-Time scanning of Email attachments. That worked. Don't ask me what that has to do with deleting any e-mail, even one without an attachment.

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All these antivirus suites are getting too involved with things they have no business bothering and wind up sucking up all the resources available. I wish they would just go back to looking for and catching viruses.