Re[2]: PopFile - last account 'hangs'

2005-09-07 Thread The Janitor
07 September 2005 - 07:02

Hello Marten,

Tuesday, September 6, 2005, 11:13:29 PM, you wrote:

MG You could try this from Mica:

Thank you, Marten, I'll give it a whirl.

-- 
Best regards,

William

Flying with The Bat! Professional
version 3.60.07



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Re: PopFile - last account 'hangs'

2005-09-07 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello The Janitor  everyone else,

on 06-Sep-2005 at 22:58 you (The Janitor) wrote:

 I've just installed/configured PopFile for ten accounts

 It's  already  beginning  to  do its job. However, intermittantly, TB!
 'hangs'  when trying to connect to the last account (in the tree list)
 for downloading new mail.

What happens when you download from one single account only?

I'm asking because PopFile has a limit on simultaneous connections, the
standard is AFAIK 5 - if you try to access many accounts at the same time,
some of the connections will be queued by PopFile. You can try to increase
the limit. If you use more, PopFile will cause really high CPU load (which
it does anyway, I for one think it will start running fast  smooth on 5GHz
processors - YMMV).

If you use PopFile for nothing else but spam filtering, I'd use K9 instead
if I were you (which I am not, but I am still using K9 *gg*). If you need
the extended classification capabilites of PopFile, there's no alternative
that I know of.

-- 
Best regards,
 Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981)

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert
Einstein



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Re[2]: PopFile - last account 'hangs'

2005-09-07 Thread The Janitor
07 September 2005 - 13:11

Hello Alexander,

Wednesday, September 7, 2005, 11:40:19 AM, you wrote:

ASK What happens when you download from one single account only?

Works fine.

ASK If you use PopFile for nothing else but spam filtering, I'd use K9 instead

I'd  almost  come to the same conclusion. The registry tweak suggested
didn't  really  appeal  but I was willing to try it. I haven't done it
yet so I'll look at K9 first.

Thanks.
-- 
Best regards,

William

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version 3.60.07



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PopFile - last account 'hangs'

2005-09-06 Thread The Janitor
06 September 2005 - 21:43

Hello Tbudl,

I've just installed/configured PopFile for ten accounts

It's  already  beginning  to  do its job. However, intermittantly, TB!
'hangs'  when trying to connect to the last account (in the tree list)
for downloading new mail.

I've  changed  the  order  in  the  tree list but it's always the last
account that hangs

The connection centre won't let me 'delete task' or 'abort all either.

All  the accounts are with the same web host (but on different domains
and servers) so it's conceivable that there *is* a problem at that end
but their status page shows that all is well.

The only way I can shut down TB! is ctrl/alt/del.

Has anyone seen this before?

-- 
Best regards,

William

Flying with The Bat! Professional
version 3.60.07



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Re: PopFile - last account 'hangs'

2005-09-06 Thread Marten Gallagher
 06 September 2005 - 21:43

 Hello Tbudl,

 I've just installed/configured PopFile for ten accounts

 It's  already  beginning  to  do its job. However, intermittantly, TB!
 'hangs'  when trying to connect to the last account (in the tree list)
 for downloading new mail.

 I've  changed  the  order  in  the  tree list but it's always the last
 account that hangs

 The connection centre won't let me 'delete task' or 'abort all either.

 All  the accounts are with the same web host (but on different domains
 and servers) so it's conceivable that there *is* a problem at that end
 but their status page shows that all is well.

 The only way I can shut down TB! is ctrl/alt/del.

 Has anyone seen this before?

Indeed they have! It's what is commonly known as a 'feature' by the Ritlab 
writing team
who seem unable to grasp the fact that they need to attend to critical bugs 
which risk the
loss of all data. They are perfectly happy tarting things up, designing mobile 
phone
graphics and announcing non-existent products. But deal with bugs, useability 
problems and
basic requests for actually improving the interface in real ways - that's 
entirely beyond
them.

You could try this from Mica:

QUOTE

There is a shorter way to fix this thing. Make a backup (export) of the
Registry entry for The Bat [TB] when the said window functions properly,
and when it get stuck again just delete the current Reg. entry and
activate/merge/import the Registry entry you have backup-ed. It fixes
the nasty thing (providing that you in the meantime have nothing
significantly changed in TB's settings; otherwise these changes will be
lost).

So, since the reason/instruction for TB's behavior is in the Registry
entry, a new installation will not change it, _until_ you have the entry
deleted before the installation.

This behavior else, is an issue with so many versions so I doubt that it
would pay to search for a stable one, as for this detail.

/QUOTE

...but it only works for an hour or so for me and it has to be done again. So 
I've gone
back to v3.5.25 which is the last 'improvement' version that doesn't behave in 
this crappy
way - for me and at least some others.

-- 
Marten Gallagher
Annery Kiln Web Design
www.annerykiln.co.uk
Using The Bat! 3.5.25
with POPFile 0.22.1
on Windows XP 5.1 




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