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Mail.app really slow and sometimes even fails downloading mails?
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Hey,
just upgraded to Tiger and Mail.app has now acts weirdly. Some emails (big ones, long text or huge attachment) load for several seconds or even minutes and sometimes, the download fails. WTF? It didn't do that in Panther. And it acts like this both with an IMAP account and a POP account.
Any ideas?
Steve
(Last edited by SteveJobs; May 16, 2005 at 09:55 AM.
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Originally Posted by SteveJobs
upgraded to Tiger and Mail.app has now acts weirdly. Some emails (big ones, long text or huge attachment) load for several seconds or even minutes and sometimes, the download fails. WTF? It didn't do that in Panther. And it acts like this both with an IMAP account and a POP account.
I wish I had a way to solve this for you. I have the same problem. For me, it started in 10.3.9 but it's there in Tiger, too. I have one IMAP account with a dozen mailboxes. I have a snappy cable modem. No speed problems anywhere else. But with Mail.app, download & sync are painfully slow. It's just horrible. My IMAP folks -- Fastmail.fm -- say there is no problem on their end. 
If people don't have an answer for this, please recommend other e-mail client software. Thunderbird? Eudora? Mailsmith? Any help would be much appreciated. 
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Originally Posted by flan
I wish I had a way to solve this for you. I have the same problem. For me, it started in 10.3.9 but it's there in Tiger, too. I have one IMAP account with a dozen mailboxes. I have a snappy cable modem. No speed problems anywhere else. But with Mail.app, download & sync are painfully slow. It's just horrible. My IMAP folks -- Fastmail.fm -- say there is no problem on their end.
If people don't have an answer for this, please recommend other e-mail client software. Thunderbird? Eudora? Mailsmith? Any help would be much appreciated.
Ha, that's a start :-)
As we say in German: If two people suffer together, each one suffers only half.
Anyway, the downloading speed improved over time. It's still awful in respect to some emails, especially those with big attachments, but it's an improvement. Perhaps it's some sort of internal buffering or caching that's growing over time; it says "buffering emails" all the time in my mail program and it's buffering more and more.
In addition, a friend of mine recommended to uncheck "save emails with attachments" and to go back to "save no emails on hard drive"; helping a lot with this particular problem.
In fact, he said that this problem is due to a change in the way Mail.app downloads emails; which is that it downloads them in 32 bit packages - which is incompatible with some servers, apparently. So either they or Apple changes something.
Perhaps he's right, dunno.
Steve
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10.4.1 solve it for me...
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