[Dovecot] any idea why the mail downloading is slow?

[LeVA]

2006. October 23. 18:46, Ejay Hire:
> What client are you using?  I've found Outlook to be a huge
> bottleneck compared to Tbird.

I'm using KMail 1.9.5. Indeed, with Tbird, the download is faster with 
KMail. Any idea what could be the problem? I don't think this is 
a "bug" in KMail; maybe a configuration issue?

Daniel

>
> -ejay
>
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> Subject: [Dovecot] any idea why the mail downloading is slow?
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm using rc10, but had this problem with previous releases too. Not
> sure if this is a dovecot problem, but I can not think of anything
> else. The mail downloading with pop3 is ~very slow, approx. 20 Kbyte
> / sec. no matter how many mails I've got in my mailbox, or how big
> are the mails. My ISP provides me a dedicated 100mbit line, and
> everything else works as fast as expected eg. http, ftp, scp...
> The OS is OpenBSD 3.9-stable and the system is not under heavy load
> at all. I've tried to turn off TLS but there was no change.
>
> Is the pop3 protocol this slow by design or there is something wrong
> with my setup?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Daniel
>
> --
> LeVA

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