> I haven't upgraded yet, but it's hard to believe that this problem still > exists in Office 2008. As I recall, it first appeared, and was discussed at > length on this list, when Office 2004 came out. The previous solution (which > I still use), is to split up your accounts into smaller groups and stagger > the download times. For example, I have 15 accounts separated into 3 groups > of 5 accounts -- one checks for mail every 5 min., one checks every 7 min., > and one checks every 9 min., and that solves the hang/lag problem for me. > If that doesn't work for you, then your problem may lie elsewhere.
Agreed, I took it one further and filed what I would call a full bug report. I was not a beta tester, just trying to help, but made a proving test case. You have those that say this does not effect them, those people are more than likely, not noticing it, or it is so small and their workflow does not exagerate it. I wrote a script that would loop x times and deliver x emails to my account. I could tell it to deliver 300 emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and 250 to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was getting stalls, long pop logins, keyboard that could not keep up, total freeze out etc. I run my own email server, I knew it was not the problem, but for the sake of a full bug report, I also provided results to gmail and I believe yahoo at the time. I further removed all rules. I further created a empty entourage database. I further tested it against every version of 2004, and updated, tested, updated, tested etc. I was then told it could be a PPC G5 specific issue, so I took my tools to an apple store and tested there. I have ruled it out, it is a bug, there is threadlock, I think I was able to capture a "sample" during it happening. I sent this all in to someone at MS and that was the last I heard of it. It is a problem, not a huge one, but annoying enough, it is hard on the user and hard on email servers. Ask around the ISP industry, those folks do not use Entourage, but they know which of their users are, as they have to bump up connections and troubleshoot their mail servers choking at times. This is a fix that has no value to gain a new sale, and as pessimistic as that sounds, I have a feeling it is how it is going to be. It must be hard to fix. Entourage IMHO, needs a full year of no new features, just optimizations and bug fixes. Then again, I don't know many software companies that run their business that way. -- Scott -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
