Hi,
I've seen the same problems sometimes. My tricks to get around this
are:
1. keep your Inbox small, have filters put as much mail as possible
into specific folders. Try to have one folder per mailinglist etc too
if possible.
2. Purge and compress all your folders (especially the Inbox) on
exit.
3. Don't store the mail attachements inside the mailbodies this only
makes the messagebases and seeks larger.
The slowdown on my side is usually only caused when the system has to
seek around huge Messagebase files. And TheBat seems to put all mails
into the "Inbox" before they get filtered and move it out of there
again once filtered (that's at least two big seeks if your Inbox is
too big and uncompressed for each mail).
Of course I might be incredibely wrong and I'd be glad to hear some
corrections from other people, but watching out for these things has
kept thebat smooth on my system.
Hope those hints help a bit in your case too.
Bye
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original message:
s> Hi there,
s> I have been using thebat for 2 weeks, just for safelists purpose. I
s> set up 2 yahoo account and let thebat to check email every 5 minutes.
s> The first one is running smooth without any problem, but the second
s> one always cause my computer to slow down. The problem is not obvious
s> when I just open the program. However, when I let it run at the
s> background for awhile, problems arise - mouse can't move while
s> checking mail, winamp music stuttering, and it takes 2 second to
s> scroll to another email.
s> Is it a design flow of thebat which make it take up more and more
s> system resource without releasing it? Or the problem is due to too
s> many filter and too many incoming email? I don't think 2000 per day is
s> too many but since the problem only occur on my second mailbox which
s> have more filter and email, this maybe the reason anyway.
s> My computer is Pentium 3 600 with 192 sdram with 2gb empty space
s> running win98 se. I really need help because I don't want to restart
s> my computer every 20 minute just to give thebat a fresh start.
s> regards,
s> yap
s> p.s. anyone tried eudora? damn it really sucks!
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