After some research this is what I found on my end...
1> 70+ read messages in my webmail inbox.
2> No seasonal messages ie Christmas cards or otherwise. Most of those
are going to my Gmail imap account anyway.
3> Switch my anti-virus to scan on write only - Problem goes away - I
normally keep read/write on as I have had a couple viruses to sneak by
somehow in write
only mode.
Apparently there a lot Disk/Memory reading going on.
4> Deleted all message but 10 messages on webmail server
This virtually removed the problem. I lucky that sense as I
normally keep only a month's worth of email in my inbox in case of
system crashes.
I normally leave copies all my messages on the server as I
download from multiple locations so this not a way to solve the
problem.
5> This large delay was occurring even when I had no new messages to
receive. I probably would not even notice except for this.
6> There is firewalls on two of the systems that I use TB on and I am
unable to use pop3 on those. Outlook Express 6 doesn't work with
Hotmail on those
systems. I spent two months working with the Hotmail lack of
support team trying to get it fix; gave up. I going try out Linux's
Ubuntu server and desktop
operating systems at those sites; although, this require me
switch accounting programs. At least it is that time to start a new
accounting year so it as much
trouble as a mid year or year conversion. I will them run in
parallel until I comfortable in the switch on.
>In a thread the other day I did suggest
>a way to use the POP server for the Inbox and the Hotmail add-on for
>custom folders only. The overhead for the Hotmail extension and the
>Inbox would still be incurred but you would not see it holding you
>up..
If this overhead is doing the same read/write as the inbox then it
most likely cause the same problems. Oh well, I will try Poppeeper on
those systems as it doesn't seem to have the overhead problem.
Eugene
On Dec 24, 10:16 pm, alanrf <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
>
> antivirus products as a whole know no difference whatsoever between
> any of the accounts you use with the Webmail extensions.
>
> I think that the issue you are seeing may be seasonal - let me try to
> explain.
>
> The Webmail Author has to do a lot of work to convert Hotmail from
> HTML to POP that can be digested by Thunderbird. There is,
> apparently, a very much higher overhead fro Hotmail than for other
> services. It is a very CPU and memory intensive process for Hotmail
> that extends the time to receive these messages. At this time of year
> - if your mail is like mine - they contain a lot more attachments of
> festive content that are quite large and dramatically increase the
> download time for the Hotmail add-on.
>
> I have recommended to the folks I support to use the freely available
> POP/SMTP servers for Hotmail. In a thread the other day I did suggest
> a way to use the POP server for the Inbox and the Hotmail add-on for
> custom folders only. The overhead for the Hotmail extension and the
> Inbox would still be incurred but you would not see it holding you
> up..
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Alan
>
> On Dec 24, 2:29 pm, KE4AVB <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I recently been noticing extremely long delays when using webmail +
> > hotmail when using Avira anti-virus software. When I start TB with
> > check at startup my hotmail account TB becomes frozen for up to 3 mins
> > or longer. No data is being transfered during these lock outs periods
> > either. I have tried just checking my Yahoo account and the problem
> > isn't there nor is it when the AOL ext. If I disable real-time anti-
> > virus scanning everything works fine.
>
> > My question is then is there a problem with webmail when using hotmail
> > extension in the relation to my anti-virus software? I have not had
> > any problems until the latest update to webmail. It is also causing
> > some other strange behaviors during these times as nothing works in
> > TB. No problems using Firefox during the same time.
>
> > It just appears to be problem when I use the hotmail ext. or maybe it
> > because only running a 500MHz system.
>
> > Eugene
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