Comment 6 for bug 224105

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In , Mkmelin+mozilla (mkmelin+mozilla) wrote :

STR:
1) Have an (imap) mail account with check for new mails on startup
2) Send yourself a mail
3) Close, and reopen thunderbird
4) Notice all the UI is frozen until the mail fetch is done

With no mail in the inbox, there is no freeze.

During the freeze you can't scroll the folder pane for instance, which is pretty annoying to say the least :(
I notice it the most because the UI freeze causes the close button on the new mail notification does not do anything. Or that's my take on it why the button isn't working.

Tried to pin it down a bit, the freeze issue isn't very new, apparently goes back to 2008-09-01 at least, but the notification used to come up only after the check and freeze was done so it wasn't as noticeable - this changed sometime recently. (Or maybe i notice it more since my server got slower to respond...)

The close button doesn't work most other times it notifies about new mails either, doesn't need to be on startup.