Marck D Pearlstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 01/29/2004 08:43 AM:
>TB doesn't auto-run any attachments, ever. Even
>then, TB usually warns you that you're opening an attachment you
>don't know about and that it can be dangerous.
And, this is one of the primary reasons why I like The Bat so much. I am
surprised that more people aren't aware of and use The Bat.
Now, on to my question: "Why do we have infrequent slowdowns of e-mail
downloading, that can be solved with nothing more than a cold reboot?"
Details: Because we are on a number of e-mail lists, we download
approximately 150-350 messages a day. Normally the download takes 1-3
minutes. Every once in a very long while it will take up to 10-15-20
minutes, even though the aggregate size is not unusually larger. What
causes this? It happened yesterday to my wife. Fearing our pc had been
hijacked by the latest designer virus making the news I had her shut it
down until I could look at it. Upon reboot, the download proceded at normal
speed (1-3 minutes). Typically a cold reboot, with nothing more solves the
problem. Does anyone have any idea why the slowdown occurs and why a cold
reboot solves the problem? Later, after removing about 20,000 mail
messages from various directories, I did defragment the hard drive, but the
problem had been solved with just the cold reboot and nothing more.
Currently we have about 115,000 messages in our various mail folders (the
largest being "The Bat"! with about 30,000 messages); and, 67 GB are free
on our 80 GB hard drive. I also have several home made filters in place to
get rid of recurring spam.
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Avi
Avram Sacks
Chicago
OS: WinXP(home); Pentium 4, 1.7Ghz, 80 GB hard drive, 512MB RAM
Using The Bat ver. 1.61h. Firewall: Agnitum Outpost AV: Computer Assocs'
My eTrust (no plugin)
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