Update #1 to Current frustrations with Thunderbird

Well, I started up Thunderbird in safe mode. If you have installed Thunderbird in the default location, that's as easy as pressing [Windows-R] (or Start, Run...) and entering the following:

C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe -safe-mode

What I found is that, although the error still occurred, Thunderbird was a lot better about not hanging up while retrieving e-mail from large IMAP mailboxes.

So I'm going to uninstall most of my add-ons and see if I can make things work better. Disabling the add-ons didn't have any effect, so I think I'll have to completely remove most of them instead.

To give you an idea of what I consider "large". I have an IMAP account on our mail server that contains 17GB (2,000,000 messages) worth of e-mail. I have another two accounts that contain 1.7GB (40,000 messages) and 2.5GB (200,000 messages) respectively. However, none of the individual IMAP folders have more then 60,000 messages each. And most of the large folders only have 15,000 to 30,000 messages.