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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Multithreaded Kmail?
From:       Rivyn (Casey Shobe) <rivyn () mailandnews ! com>
Date:       2000-03-12 20:39:00
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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Rivyn (Casey Shobe) wrote:
> > > I guess it's something to think about.
> > 
> > For me, receiving email is not an issue, as I use fetchmail, and it downloads
> > in less than a second...but I send via SMTP, and I'm on a network sharing a
> > single dialup connection, so at times it can take a couple MINUTES...whilst I
> > can't do anything else in Kmail...
> > 
> And for me, it currently takes 30 seconds just to get an SMTP prompt
> when telnetting to the mail server on port 25....so you can see that
> (even with ISDN here) it can take a couple minutes to send several
> messages... :-( My boss is working on a new mail server (more
> powerful processor and more RAM) but that's probably several weeks
> down the road. In any event, even if the new mail server helps
> things, if you're sending out a BUNCH of messages (KMail is currently
> set to store outgoing messages until the next mail check, etc) it
> could take 5-10 minutes to deliver all the mail... NOT fun!!!
> 	John

Exactly!  I wonder if there would be a way to make background sending (put
status in the statusbar), and not slow down Kmail at all.

- Rivyn [ Casey Allen Shobe ]
- rivyn@mailandnews.com [ UIN: 1494523 ]

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