I have just the opposite problem. When a large attachment is downloading I get some response to my clicking on messages. When I am downloading lots of small messages (normally the case) it is hopeless.
/lss -- Larry S. Samberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] VM/Fax: 270-514-0557 Skype: larrysamberg I care about truth not for truth's sake but for my own ---Samuel Butler On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:12:39 +0000 Tim Hodgson wrote: >On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 4:10 am -0500, Larry Samberg wrote: > >>I also find that Powermail, at least the most recent versions, seems to >>be slower than I would expect on my 1GHz PB G4. >>Displaying things is slow. Moving mail is even slower. I have compacted >>the db but it doesn't seem to make a difference. >>That and the lack of appropriate threading (i.e. I can't really read mail >>while mail is downloading) are really my primary gripes with PM. > >I don't have a problem reading mail while 'normal' messages are >downloading, but messages with large attachments are troublesome. Once a >week I'm emailed a gzipped backup of a MySQL db - it's normally around >600k - and always see the same behaviour: PM happily downloads in the >background until the progress counter shows a few kb short of the total, >then beachballs for a minute or more. After that, it carries on fine. > >I don't know how this compares with other mail clients? > >TimH > >
