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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Dave Liebreich <pixiebob@bigfoot.com>  on Thu, 07 Oct 1999
> | and it's *very* slow.  Are the following lines in pop3.el really necessary?
> 
> One, yes, those sleeps are necessary.  Without them Emacs hangs on large
> messages.

ok.

> Two, the first sleep does not come up until the message being downloaded is 
> ~20kB.

None of the messages are over 20kB.  All are quite a bit under 20kB.

> Three, the Numero Uno cause of "slow" POP is not the client, but because
> mail is being left on the server.

I don't leave the mail on the server.


I used the elp stuff and found that for a single short message, pop3-retr
was taking 3 seconds.

fetchmail on the same machine for the same message took < .5 seconds.

:-(

Thanks for the suggestions, though.

-Dave

p.s. just looked again at the code:

(while (not (re-search-forward "^\\.\r\n" nil t))
  (accept-process-output process 3)       
  ...
)

so that's where the 3 seconds comes from.  Is anyone else using this pop
function to get their mail, and if so, do you see each message take 3
seconds?