Michael A Beckmann writes: 

> Two questions arise from this problem:
> 1) Is this behaviour normal, i.e. large account resulting in long
> authentication delay?

Yes.  The POP3 protocol is designed to download mail from a remote mailbox 
to a local mailbox, and then delete it.  It is not designed to serve as a 
remote mail access protocol to 100MB mailboxes. 

> 2) How do I avoid/solve the problem (I know removing old messages from
> server to reduce size is an option but one I'd like to avoid)?

Use IMAP.  That's what it's designed for. 


-- 
Sam 


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