Order of Processing

[John M Price, PhD]

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Philip R. Mann wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Jan 2000 11:00:43 -0800 (PST), John M Price PhD wrote:
> 
> >PMMail/2 seems to me to be more than just a bit of a cycle hog.
> 
> No problem even when using my 486 50mhz notebook.

I have a 486 DX2-80.  PMMail pegs the system activity monitor when
downloading.

> >That said, and with all its benefits, can someone tell me of what good it is to filter messages as they come in? 
> 
> Even though I have about 40 filters, filtering is almost instanteous
> when I'm connected through DSL at 640K at home or through a T1 network
> connection at work.  If you're worried that it keeps you online longer
> than it should, you must have a filter set to examine an entire message
> (rather than just the header or part of the header) and get rather long
> messages; otherwise, I don't see how you'd see any delay.

No, I have all set to look at the header, or where possible, the
individual lines.

As to Steve's comparison to Eudora, that program's problem is the use of
the inbox as a temp folder, as well as teh use of one big file from which
it had to copy messages to other big files.

Here, it is measurable in time by verbally counting, just watching for
PMMail to update the message counter at a folder!

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