PMMail/2 and Broken Telephone Connectinons

[Chris Adams]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:27:07 -0500, Agents wrote:

>Unfortunately I got a somewhat similar cavalier response when I twice complained about this over a year ago.  I was told that 
>this was a limitation of the TCP/IP stack in OS/2...  Clearly this needs to be addressed and I quite agree with you that it is hard 
>to recommend a package that does not handle this problem appropriately. 

I was told that the TCP/IP stack in OS/2 automatically does this.
Certainly other applications I used seemed to handle this...

>My second big gripe is that many of the timeconsuming processes in PMMail/2, e.g, sorting messages, sorting newsgroups 
>etc are not spun off in separate threads and hence hog the message queue on slower computers.  I am using a 90 MHz 
>Pentium equivalent and frequently have to sit and stare at my computer while PMMail is doing something instead of being 
>able to do something in another application while PMMail/2 is working.  We are not talking seconds here, we are talking 
>several *minutes*!  Not acceptable as well.

I get the same thing with dual P133s. Their code for displaying large
folders is simplistic and both the windows and OS/2 versions are really
heavily tied to the native GUI's performance. On a PII 350, it takes ~20
seconds to display a 150K email and it still takes awhile to display
folders with lots of messages.
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