I've asked this question elsewhere, may as well ask the froup mind here...
Jeffrey Kaplan
client. I'm currently using TBird 2.0.0.22, but it's slow doing
anything IMAP in Vista x86 and even slower in Vista x64. My slightly
underpowered laptop is Vista x86 and my current and
sufficiently-powered desktop is Vista x64. (My old XP desktop is now
doing audio and streaming video duty attached to my TV and stereo.)
Outlook and Windows Mail share a major flaw in that their junk
detection is not user-trainable and has only four settings: Off,
Light, Medium or Kill-All, the actual "definitions" are controlled by
the Redmond Borg. Plus, I absolutely hate Outlook's email UI.
Eudora in its current state doesn't even HAVE junk filtering according
to its docs (paid mode only and they're not selling it anymore), and
its future version is just a rebranded TBird, if they ever get around
to actually doing anything with it.
Pegasus is a royal bitch to setup, and I've lost all patience with such
fiddley settings.
For some reason I can never remember why I don't like The Bat!. I've
now tried it three times, once on each of my systems, and uninstalled
it within a week each time and now cannot re-try it due to their
registration enforcement hidden key or file.
As for TBird, I've tried everything I can think of to make it work at
an appropriate speed. SSL on or off, no difference. A/V on or off, no
difference. Extensions on or off, no difference. Bypassing the
Windows native SSL stack and using STunnel (works for SSL speed
problems with Agent in Vista), no difference. SMTP, no problem. POP,
no problem. IMAP, slower than molasses in an Arctic winter where I'll
be lucky to get 100kilobits/second on a 12megabit connection retrieving
an emailed file. And I know it's not the server because I've tested
against an alternate from another provider. In XP it wasn't a speed
demon, but at least it was usably fast.
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Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org
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