PMMail/2 and Broken Telephone Connectinons

[Agents]

On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 16:59:52 -0700, Chris Adams wrote:

>On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:27:07 -0500, Agents wrote:
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>>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. 
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>I was told that the TCP/IP stack in OS/2 automatically does this.
>Certainly other applications I used seemed to handle this...

I doubt that.  An example -- if you are downloading a large webpage in Netscape and *while still downloading the page* the 
connection is lost and your dialer then re-establishes the connection Netscape will probably have timed out and you have to 
reload the page.

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>>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.
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>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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