Hi Eugene, antivirus products as a whole know no difference whatsoever between any of the accounts you use with the Webmail extensions.
I think that the issue you are seeing may be seasonal - let me try to explain. The Webmail Author has to do a lot of work to convert Hotmail from HTML to POP that can be digested by Thunderbird. There is, apparently, a very much higher overhead fro Hotmail than for other services. It is a very CPU and memory intensive process for Hotmail that extends the time to receive these messages. At this time of year - if your mail is like mine - they contain a lot more attachments of festive content that are quite large and dramatically increase the download time for the Hotmail add-on. I have recommended to the folks I support to use the freely available POP/SMTP servers for Hotmail. In a thread the other day I did suggest a way to use the POP server for the Inbox and the Hotmail add-on for custom folders only. The overhead for the Hotmail extension and the Inbox would still be incurred but you would not see it holding you up.. I hope this helps. Alan On Dec 24, 2:29 pm, KE4AVB <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently been noticing extremely long delays when using webmail + > hotmail when using Avira anti-virus software. When I start TB with > check at startup my hotmail account TB becomes frozen for up to 3 mins > or longer. No data is being transfered during these lock outs periods > either. I have tried just checking my Yahoo account and the problem > isn't there nor is it when the AOL ext. If I disable real-time anti- > virus scanning everything works fine. > > My question is then is there a problem with webmail when using hotmail > extension in the relation to my anti-virus software? I have not had > any problems until the latest update to webmail. It is also causing > some other strange behaviors during these times as nothing works in > TB. No problems using Firefox during the same time. > > It just appears to be problem when I use the hotmail ext. or maybe it > because only running a 500MHz system. > > Eugene -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en.
