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) ________________________________________________________ http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html