Hi, once in a while I was having the problem with PowerMail that all of a sudden clicking through emails in the Recent Mails window (and probably in any other mail browser window) became very slooooooooow - PowerMail needed up to 10 seconds to display the text of the email I just selected.
Throughout the last months I tried to observe the circumstances that led to this issue. My guess is it has something to do with using the "Show HTML" command for a mail that is HTML formatted. Nevertheless, it doesn't happen all of the time, just relatively rarely. Anyway. I watched processor usage and it went up to about 80% - just for displaying plain text. Strange. I then figured out that about 60% was used by PowerMail, and 20% by "ATSServer" (I am guessing this means Apple Text Services Server). I thought, even the 20% for the ATSServer is way too much for something as simple as formatting text. Thus I decided to open Activity Monitor and just quit that process (and it just did quit). Guess what: On selecting the next mail, speed was back to normal (and PowerMail seems to have implicitly just launched ATSServer again). Whatever the actual reason for all this is I believe CTMdev should address it. Maybe others who experience the extreme slowdown could just try the same and let me know whether that also fixes the issue for them. Olaf Druemmer PS: My setup is Mac OS/X 10.4.2 on a PowerBook 15" 1.67 GHz 2 GB RAM (nearly always several 100 MB free) 100GB HD (5 - 10 GB free) using PowerMail 5.2.1 build 4397.
