Max Rydahl Andersen, [MRA] wrote: MRA> I've been using The Bat in the past on and off the last couple of MRA> years to see when it would get respectable IMAP support....and it MRA> seems that has finally arrived with the 2.11 release. MRA> So, now I've bought it to support the great software... :)
Welcome aboard though I must admit that IMAP still has some problems, one that you've detected below. MRA> And now onto the questions: MRA> BayesIt and Junk mails: MRA> I can see that BayesIt has loaded it's files etc. in the Information MRA> page of the plugin, but it has not filtered any messages yet - all MRA> stats (except the stuff about the "base") is all zero's !? MRA> Is that intentional ? ;) Are you using BayesIt with an IMAP account? I don't know if it will work with IMAP accounts. MRA> Speed/Multithread: MRA> Can it be true that The Bat is waay slower to fetch a message while at MRA> the same time checking the state of my folders on my IMAP server ? MRA> Neither Thunderbird, Mozilla, Opera M2 nor Outlook Express has so long MRA> a waiting period from clicking on a new mail and when it is shown in MRA> the preview pane or message dialog?! MRA> Is there a "enable multithreading of status and mail reading" or MRA> something that I have overlooked or The Bat just a "one job at the MRA> time" kind of mail reader ? ;) I've been noting this as well and you're right. Currently TB! works with a single IMAP connection and sends/receive requests in series. So if one thing is happening, you have to wait for it to finish before another thing is done. If a folder is being sync'd and you wish to read a message body in another folder, you have to wait until the sync operation is completed before your message body is retrieved. ThunderBird and other clients will simply spawn another IMAP connection and the two requests are dealt with in parallel. To minimize the wait periods, do the following. In the end TB! will sort of behave like ThunderBird. :) - bring up the 'Manage IMAP folders panel'. Set all folders sync setting to 'Don't synchronize'. There may be a couple vital folders you wish to have autosync'd so you may wish to do so. However, try this with all folders set to 'don't synchronize. - open the IMAP account's properties and go to the 'automatically connect to the server' tab. Enable all those triggers. - in the the same IMAP account options go to the 'Options' tab and set your interval for mail checking. - disable the compress on exit function in the IMAP fine tune options for now since this could also bog down your connection. You can make that one of your the first options you re-enable. What you've now done in effect is to make TB! fetch headers and message bodies only when you specifically request. The new message counts will be checked when TB! checks for mail. However, headers will not be downloaded. As a result this check process is quick. When you select a folder, this will trigger a header sync operation. So if you see new messages have arrive for a folder, select it and wait a few moments while the new message headers are downloaded. The folder will change colour to show that it has downloaded new message headers. Select each new message and the message body will be retrieved. How's that? -- -=[ Allie ]=- (List Moderator and fellow end-user) PGPKeys: http://key.ac-martin.com Running The Bat! v2.11.02 on WinXP Pro (SP1)
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