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RE: POP3 & Netscape ??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike A. Lewis, CNE)
Wed Nov 25 17:02:35 1998
From: "Mike A. Lewis, CNE" <cajun@cajuninc.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:01:28 -0800
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The system is quite heavily loaded with six mail users. I'm running
Netscape on one of several client machines. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Carlson [mailto:janc@iname.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 11:01 AM
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: POP3 & Netscape ??
"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 :-)
>
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2
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