Re: pop3 *very* slow?

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

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* 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.

Two, the first sleep does not come up until the message being downloaded is 
~20kB.  By comparison, the average message on ding is between 4kB and 8kB,
less than half that initial threshold.  Given that, the 1-second pause a
20kB message incurs (and the 5-second pause a 500kB message causes) is
negligible.

Three, the Numero Uno cause of "slow" POP is not the client, but because
mail is being left on the server.  Every time you open your POP drop, the
server must make a copy of the spool file to properly lock it.  The larger
the spool file, the longer it takes to copy, and the slower your response
from the server will be.  Try deleting those messages if there are any and
see if that helps.
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