On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, 4:19 PM, you wrote: nwd> 15-Jul-2003 22:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> well, I just got rid of spampal, not because it didn't work, but because >> I finally noticed that the slowdown in receiving mail was only on the >> accounts that had spampal setup. Now I am back to getting my mail FAST. nwd> I'd say that depends on how frequently you receive mail from the same nwd> persons, and spampal has a chance to auto-whitelist the corresponding nwd> address. Mail retrieval is only slow for addresses that need to be checked nwd> against the DNSBLs. If you're received mail from "new" addresses all the nwd> time, it will be slow, and spampal is not the best solution, I agree. either I have my filters setup wrong, or all the lists I'm on make it so spampal DOES have to check, because mail always seemed slow. nwd> OTOH - I am on not on a dial-up connection and don't care whether my mail nwd> retrieval is fast or slow. In fact, I don't even notice it. Whether spampal nwd> takes 1 or 30 seconds to process a single email, TB just runs and nwd> periodically checks for mails, and when its there, its there. :-) I'm on cablemodem myself, but I don't keep TB running all the time, so when I fire it up, it does take some time to process the mail. I would constantly get mail with **SPAM** in the header, reply, and forget to take that out of the subject! -- Paul Using The Bat! v1.63 Beta/5 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
