[pmmail-list] [mkc] Putting PMMail's data on a network drive

[Stephen Eickhoff]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 16:44:38 +0200, Manfred Usselmann wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 08:21:19 -0400
>"Mike Kilroy" <mike@KilroyWasHere.com> wrote:
>
>> I think I will try this.  I saw slow performance even after installing
>> Pmmail on my local machine, running it, and pointing to my mail
>> folders on the 'server.' with the 'start in' field of the icon. 
>> 
>> I've a couple questions:
>> - Was my slowness because I did not change HKEY_.. in the registry?  
>> 
>> - Are you saying that if I do this it will be the same speed as
>> locally?  (not counting a little slowness thrown in for the 100mhz
>> network connection)
>> 
>
>The reason for PMMail being slow if you put the folders on a network
>drive is AFAIK that then PMMail uses the network path also for temporary
>files.
>
>There was a discussion about this a while ago and the suggested solution
>was to patch pmmailw.exe to use a local temp path (e.g. by replacing
>'.\TEMP' by 'C:\TMP'). Be careful! Must be same length. Don't change
>anything else. Make a backup first.

I'd like to make the suggestion that the %TEMP% environment variable should be
used for this by the program. I suppose this would be annoying to the
developers, as it's a platform specific feature.
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        Stephen Eickhoff
      operagost@email.com
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