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Re: POP3 & Netscape ??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 14:13:39 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:01:19 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Mike A. Lewis, CNE" wrote:
> RH5.1
> Netscape 4.5
>
> Can anyone give me any clues about this?
>
> Using Netscape Messenger as a mail client, you initially login to the server
> after entering your login password. The response is pretty much immediate.
> The user composes and sends several emails, again, the response is pretty
> much immediate. The user now goes back and clicks 'get msgs' button. The
> dialog box comes up and says that it is connected to xyz server, sending
> login information, then it just sits there for about 90 seconds or so.
> Finally this dialog goes off, and at the bottom of the screen it says there
> are no new messages on the server.
>
> Is this normal Netscape Messenger behavior ? Why would subsequent 'get
> msgs' commands take so much longer than the initial login / get messages ?
It depends on the load on the POP3 server, and on how much memory
is in your machine and what else is running. 16mb is too little if you're
running Netscape on Linux. Prices are going up, buy more memory now :-)
>
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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