Preloading Thunderbird?

MatejLach · 2012-05-19 11:29:35

I would like to know if there's any way to preload thunderbird.
I do not mean launching thunderbird at startup, I am talking about checking inbox in the background and be constantly ready.
So, what I want?
I am using xfce4-mailwatch plugin to check if any new mails are coming , I set it to open thunderbird at click, but the problem is that thunderbird is quite slow when opening, it is checking all the folders for updates and only then loads itself fully, which could take a couple of seconds.

I do not want to use something like firetray, as it is keeping thunderbird always fully open and to be honest, thunderbird is not the world's memory most efficient app, that I've know of.

So what I want is some sort of daemon or something (with minimal memory footprint), that will keep thunderbird's inbox always in sync, with my gmail and so when I open thunderbird it will NOT check for updates, because it will already be up-to-date thanks to the daemon.

Any ideas?

Last edited by MatejLach (2012-05-19 11:31:32)

Trilby · 2012-05-19 13:22:42

You can have some other mail app run in the background that will retrieve mail and store it locally, then adjust thunderbird to only read from your local mail files. Something as simple as a looping script with curl to get an mbox file should do it - although I think gmail has it's own cli interfaces that might be better.

Arch Linux

#1 2012-05-19 11:29:35

Preloading Thunderbird?

#2 2012-05-19 13:22:42

Re: Preloading Thunderbird?

Board footer