Hello, fellow Bat-lovers. I haven't posted for a while because it seemed that no one was having the long pauses that I was experiencing with IMAP. Someone (Allie, I think) suggested that they might be due to the large number of messages I have on the server. This seemed strange to me, since, with POP3, at least, users tend to rave about The Bat's performance with large message bases.
Now, however, I can confirm others' reports of random long pauses when downloading message bodies. Like Clive, this has always been a problem for me. As I reported previously, I see similar, but even longer pauses (sometimes) when moving between folders. (TB! is set to not synchronize.) Worse yet, I sometimes click on a message and get the wrong body! I just displayed five unread messages in a folder. Of the five, I was only able to read one. The other three all linked to the wrong message. These problems are so pervasive that, even though I finally broke down and paid for the upgrade, I still use The Bat only for testing new releases. I always end up going back to Thunderbird and Mulberry. I have also occasionally seen the behavior Martin reported of random disconnects when moving between messages. I haven't observed tasks getting "stuck", but I'll be watching for this in the future. In addition, earlier today I had something VERY strange happen as I was reading a thread from one of my Yahoo groups. I was getting "No message loaded" for quite a few of the messages in the thread. This is something I've seen quite a bit, but it had always seemed to be random (and VERY frustrating). However, I discovered that when I looked at the same thread in Mulberry and Thunderbird, the problem messages were not listed at all in the message list. As I looked further, I found that I had two copies of every message. All were sent on October 19th. However, one copy of each, according to the "Received" column in TB! and Mulberry, was received on the 19th and the other was received on the 22nd. In each case, the copy received on the 19th was a problem message, while the one received on the 22nd was normal. Even more strangely, in each case, the bad message is shown as having been created/sent exactly two hours earlier than the good one. Any ideas on this one? As I investigated this problem, I also discovered a couple of interesting things I hadn't noticed before. First of all, I cannot find the "Received" date and time (in the "Received" column) anywhere in the message headers. Can anyone tell me where this information comes from? Since it's identical in both TB! and Mulberry, it must be in the message somewhere, but where? I also (as an off-topic comment) noticed that Thunderbird does not display all the "Received:" headers in the message, but only the first and last. This strikes me as very strange, because of the importance of these headers in tracking spam. I also continue to be frustrated that TB! does not allow threading on both references and subject. In my thread of six good messages, when I thread by reference, four thread properly and two do not, because they don't have reference headers. All six thread properly in both Thunderbird and Mulberry. Finally, I did something, and I'm not sure what, that caused even this imperfect threading to break. Now, instead of being broken into two threads, the twelve messages (good and bad) are now displayed in seven threads! Anybody know what might have caused this? I'll be anxiously waiting to hear from the IMAP experts! ;-) -- Keith Russell ..."Scotty, beam us aboard." "Aye, sir. Will a 2x4 do?" Using The Bat! 3.0.2.4 Rush under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 on a 2.4 GHZ Pentium IV with 512 MB. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.0.2.4 Rush | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
