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Subject: Re: pop3 *very* slow?
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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.

Are you sure this is still true? I know emacs will accept more input during
large reads and writes now, that was done to avoid deadlocks. how is your
deadlock occurring? I'm curious because having run into this once the hard way
I would like to know what other pitfalls threaten.


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greg