[tpop3d-discuss] Long login delay

[Chris Lightfoot]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:10:09AM +0100, Ian Armstrong=A0 wrote:
> I have 286 messages in my inbox. tpop3d took about 13 seconds to login.
> (Courier took 1 second). I then turned the onlogin query off, and tried
> again. There was no noticable change in tpop3d's performance. I checked
> the code in my webmail client. It only logs in once, reads the messages=
 in
> a loop, and saves them to disk. My webmail is not as fast as say, for
> example, pine, but this is not the problem. The test between courier an=
d
> tpop3d was performed under the same conditions, but with very different
> results. The times above are approximate. I took them from Opera, which
> shows the time in seconds while searching for sites.
> I really need the "onlogin query", but I am disapointed with the
> performance loss.

hmm. I'm very surprised. Can you send a log extract (with
-v) which shows the delay?

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