Hello choppystride, Friday, June 20, 2003, 7:52:44 PM, you wrote:
DR>> I think this should be a short-term solution. And, that a more DR>> permanent solution be implemented in the next version of TB (1.63). In > Are you saying that Ritlabs is aware of this problem and that a > solution is near completion? Unfortunately, I'm not. > I was browsing thru their bugtrap and > saw a bug titled "Mail fetching (POP3) hangs " dated Jan 22. I wonder > if this is the same one that I'm experiencing. Perhaps I should > report mine? Yes you should submit your bug report. They could probably decide if it is related or not. DR>> example, have an option so that the check messages is done DR>> sequentially. This is probably a scenario that either wasn't thought DR>> of at design time and/or nobody reported before. > As I've said before, I've tried Pegasus which doesn't have this bug > b/c it seems to be checking the accounts sequentially. However, it > also seems to be very slow, much slower than TB when I tested them out > by having them check only 4 accounts (the limit imposed by my email > provider). So perhaps we should be allowed to specify how many > accounts to check at a time to minimize the possible performance loss. > But then of course my tests were not exactly precise scientific > experiments. And also, I'm assuming here that this 4-at-a-time > limit is the source of the problem, which may or may not be. This could be a good solution to try. When posting your bug report, make sure to mention all of this, it might give Ritlabs some ideas on how to tackle the problem. -- Best regards, Daniel Rail Senior System Engineer ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca) ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com) ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
