On 8/17/2014 5:21 AM, flyguy wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote, On 8/16/2014 7:48 PM: >> flyguy wrote: >>> flyguy wrote, On 8/7/2014 5:12 PM: >>>> My wife is experiencing a problem while typing an email: the characters >>>> sometimes do not appear when she types them, but are delayed as much as >>>> several seconds. Seamonkey is typically the only application she's >>>> running. It happens several times week now. We're not sure when it >>>> started, but likely some time this year. >>>> >>>> We're both using SM 2.26 on similar Win XP machines. I rarely have it >>>> happen to me. Does anyone have an idea about the cause and how to fix >>>> it? >>> >>> Is she really the only one with this problem? Well, maybe we'll get >>> lucky when we get new computers in a month or tow. >> >> I have a similar experience on a pretty fast machine -- I can be >> composing an email, and at random intervals SM suddenly stops displaying >> what I type, then catches up after a couple of seconds and goes back to >> normal (it remembers up to about 15-20 of the characters I typed). >> >> It reminds me of what happens if I'm watching a video when SM checks >> mail -- the vid will freeze for a couple of seconds (audio continues) >> and then resume (dropping all those frames). >> >> With all the RAM and processing power I have on this Win7 machine, it >> should be able to do two things at once, don'tcha think? >> >> What happens if she sets SM not to check/download mail automatically? > > Neither the POP or the IMAP account check automatically. She has to > request new emails. > > I'm disappointed a new, much faster machine can have the same issues. > She's hoping a new machine will take care of the problem, and she'll be > heartbroken if it has the same problem as her 8 year old XP machine > (we're getting new computers to dump XP, except keeping the XP laptop to > run some legacy programs). >
It might also be caused by SeaMonkey saving the message as a draft, especially when you save drafts on the server. Please check the setting under Preferences -> Composition and/or under Account Settings -> Copies & Folders. (Exact path to settings may differ, because I don't have SeaMonkey running at the moment.) Onno _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
