Re: Why does "importing messages" take 20 minutes?

Miguel A. Urech writes:

> 20 minutes is certainly an excessive amount of time. I would have to
> download thousands (many thousands) of messages to take that long. In
> one account I some time get well over 100 messages in a single
> connection and they are imported in a couple of seconds at most.

I've seen times of 22 minutes and longer, for only a hundred messages or
so.

> You don't say what version of TB you are using (and if a beta, or not)
> and that may make a difference.

It's in my signature: v3.0.1.33.

> Are you using any antiviral software? If so, have you tried to disable
> it and see if that makes any significant difference?

No antiviral software.

> Are you using many and very complex filters?

I have about 80 filters for incoming mail.  Most of them look for
specific content in sender or recipient fields ("contains" or "match")
and file messages in appropriate folders.

> How does your Temp directory look? Does it contain many (a huge number)
> of *.tmp files? If so, delete them while TB is not running.

Hardly any temp files in the temp directory.

A further mystery is that TB is not doing any processing or I/O while it
sits there.  It seems to be _waiting_ for something.

As an experiment, I went into the Transport area of the properties on
the account, and changed the time out delay from 60 seconds to 1 second
(the mail server is on my own LAN, so a 1-second timeout is still plenty
of time).  It seems to be helping.

What could TB be waiting for?  The e-mail server uses qpopper to service
the requests; qpopper is among the most popular POP e-mail servers
around, so I don't think it's that.

-- 
Anthony
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