I'm wondering what is the impact in terms of speed of various filters
and Leifs piece had me wondering. I've noticed large differences in
speed of download between almost identical machines where one was
filtering and the other wasn't. I've tried deleting filters that
search on all text as I assum
Roy, dia duit!
On 22/03/2000 you may or may not have meant to post the following to TBUDL:
> but are kill filters that are killing 'on the server' the slowest?
Lief seems to be yer man for this doesn't he. However, I tried using kill
filters, found them slow, quirky, and so don't use them now.
Hi Roy,
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RM> - but are kill
RM> filters that are killing 'on the server' the slowest?
AFAIK yes. The reason is that TB has to contact the server
twice per messages if at least one kill filter exists:
1. get headers
2. get message
If your mail server is slow (as mine is) it is a lot faster
to
Hello Roy,
Definitely, the machine with filters is going to be slower (provided
all else is equal), and it gets slower the more filters you have. It's
not a reflection on TB, but on the fact that each message must be
matched against every active filter.
You'll take a speed hit on the complexity
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