Before Brian Heinrich gives me a list of newsgroups I should be posting this on I want him to know that in the past I did post this problem on those newsgroups and was basically told that it wasn't considered to be a problem. However, this problem has existed in Netscape and Mozilla for quite some time now, and I know from talking with others that I am not the only one who considers it to be a problem.
I submitted a query at bugzilla, but found no bugs that seemed to match mine exactly, so here goes: Whenever I am trying to download an e-mail with an attachment of 500Kb or larger it takes a large chunk of time to accomplish the task (sometimes not accomplishing it at all). I just tried to receive three emails with attachments that equaled 2.5MB total. The first email had an attachment of 900KB. After waiting 5 minutes (honestly) I checked my POP server and the 1st email was not even half finished being transferred to Mail/News. I cancelled the transfer and opened Microsoft Entourage. Entourage took a grand total of 45 seconds to download all three e-mails. If this was just a one-time occurance I would not be upset. However, this is a common occurance, and not just with my computer. To make matters worse, if I am able to successfully get the emails into Mail/News any action such as, saving or moving to another folder, takes almost as long as the initial download. In other email programs such as Entourage, once the email has been successfully downloaded it can be shuffled around just as quickly as if it was just a simple small text message. Is this an issue whos solution is being actively pursued or am I getting ready to hit yet another brick wall? In case you need it these are my system specs. Powermac G4 500MHz 512MB RAM Mac OS 9.22 50MB RAM allocated to Mozilla Virtual Memory is turned off.
