James Strickland wrote: > > 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. >
I am not exactly sure what these stats mean, but if you mean there is a hard limit of 50MB on the memory available to Mozilla than I am vaguely surprised that Moz doesn't regularly crash... As for attachments, I just sent myself a 4MB attachment, and moz retrieved it in less than 2 seconds along with some other mail. The longest Moz has ever taken on my mail is 10 minutes when I had >19,000 messages/80MB in my mailbox... So 5 minutes for one message seems a bit long and may have to do with your weird memory setup[though it may not be weird, I am not real familiar with Mac OS][I have 384MB of RAM and 1GB of swap[which I assume is similar to Virtual Memory] which Moz has unlimited access to]. You also never mentioned the speed of your internet connection[I have dialup, but Moz Mail doesn't use the internet] though I am assuming that it is some form of broadband...
