Jerry Feldman wrote: <snip> > Preliminary results. I went back and checked every account setting, and > I found that I was downloading all iMAP mail, and since gmail stores > SPAM for 30 days and stores trash forever, the All MAIL folder was huge. sounds like someone forgot to do his 'monthly house cleaning'. when i first ran imap, once a week, i would use ftp to pull my inbox to a local file, then delete inbox and upload a new inbox with the 'do not remove' notice. next i would wipe my local record file. so i never had a large server inbox file to be aware of any freezing. being that at that time i was on dial up, i am sure i would have noticed. > So far I have not experienced a freeze, so I am assuming that the > apparent freeze condition was of my own making by not reviewing my > settings. may well be cured. i can imagine overhead in comparing local to server. glad to see you found a reasonable explanation. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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