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

Hello Anthony,

>> 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.

That is certainly too much. Even 1 minute would be too much.

>> 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.

Ooops! Sorry, don't know how/way I missed that.

>> 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.

That's not too many filters and I wouldn't call them 'complex' either.

> 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.

If the server is on your LAN then it is even more strange, unless there
is some issue with 'qpopper' (with which I am not familiar at all).

Do you have any external account with your ISP or somewhere else? If so,
do you get the same delays when downloading messages from those servers?

-- 
Best regards,

Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain)
Using The Bat! v3.0.9.5 Return (pre-beta)