I've been using 'Shark' and 'Spin Control' (developer tools) on PowerMail recently, to understand when/why it briefly but annoyingly stalls when checking mail. A pattern has emerged. It seems to be a call stack like this:
Call graph: 117 Thread_4b03 117 start 117 _start 117 main 117 LApplication::Run() 117 CPMApp::ProcessNextEvent() 117 LTSMDocApp::ProcessNextEvent() 110 LEventDispatcher::UseIdleTime(EventRecord const&) 110 LPeriodical::DevoteTimeToIdlers(EventRecord const&) 110 CPMApp::SpendTime(EventRecord const&) 110 CMAS::Idle() 110 CPOP3Engine::Idle() 109 CMASServerDataDB::WritePOPUIDLList(CDatabase::IDType, std: :vector<CPOP3Monitor::FetchedMsgUID, std::allocator<CPOP3Monitor: :FetchedMsgUID> > const&) 94 basic_binstream::operator<<(std::basic_string<char, std: :char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&) 94 0x3b6a0c 94 memstreambuff::Write(char const*, unsigned long) 94 memstreambuff::reallocate(long) 73 memcpy 73 __copy_longs_aligned Can anyone confirm? Running 'Spin Control' is easy, but you do need the dev tools installed. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mac Software Designer Montréal, Québec, Canada

