Eudora (OS X) non-responsive while filtering

Whenever Eudora filters downloaded messages (IMAP), Eudora becomes almost
unresponsive. If I'm typing a new message, I have to wait until it stops.

It seems to me that this wasn't always so. Might have been before I updated
Eudora, but I sure long for the time when typing took precedence over
filtering.

Any suggestions?

Eudora Pro 6.2.3; OS X 10.3.9

Thanks,
--
DaveC
me@privacy.net
This is an invalid return address
Please reply in the news group

Re: Eudora (OS X) non-responsive while filtering

DaveC wrote:
> Whenever Eudora filters downloaded messages (IMAP), Eudora becomes almost
> unresponsive. If I'm typing a new message, I have to wait until it stops.
>
> It seems to me that this wasn't always so. Might have been before I updated
> Eudora, but I sure long for the time when typing took precedence over
> filtering.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Eudora Pro 6.2.3; OS X 10.3.9
>
> Thanks,

If I am not mistaken, client based filtering of imap mailboxes defeats
the purpose for IMAP. If you have the option, you might wish to pop
these messages from the server while leaving a copy on the server for
some time or until the one in the local inbox is deleted.

The idea of IMAP is that you will only transfer the content you wish to
see. Filtering requires that the complete content of every message is
retrieved for the filtering to occur. I believe that with the POP
scheme eudora while downloading all the messages begins the processing
of the filters on the newly retrieved messages. With IMAP the mode
might be slightly different since it first gets the headers of all the
messages. It is possible that it then sequentially connects to the
remote server retrieving one message at a time and then initiating the
filter checks on each message. This presumably would mean that if you
have 100 new messages it would initiate 100 connection attempts to the
server to retrieve the body of each messsage and then will start one
hundred filtering instances for each message which would likely render
the system as non-responsive due to the processing required.

AK

Re: Eudora (OS X) non-responsive while filtering

Thus spake AK:

> If I am not mistaken, client based filtering of imap mailboxes defeats
> the purpose for IMAP. If you have the option, you might wish to pop
> these messages from the server while leaving a copy on the server for
> some time or until the one in the local inbox is deleted.

What you say sounds logical. But my web-based mail provider for this account
(AIM.COM) doesn't allow POP access to get messages using a mail client app,
only IMAP.

Is there any setting in Eudora that will allow me to alter the filtering (ie,
make only 1 connection to download all message bodies and filter), or such?
*Anything* to speed up this process.

Thanks,
--
DaveC
me@privacy.net
This is an invalid return address
Please reply in the news group

Re: Eudora (OS X) non-responsive while filtering

DaveC wrote:
> Thus spake AK:
>
>
>>If I am not mistaken, client based filtering of imap mailboxes defeats
>>the purpose for IMAP. If you have the option, you might wish to pop
>>these messages from the server while leaving a copy on the server for
>>some time or until the one in the local inbox is deleted.
>
>
> What you say sounds logical. But my web-based mail provider for this account
> (AIM.COM) doesn't allow POP access to get messages using a mail client app,
> only IMAP.
>
> Is there any setting in Eudora that will allow me to alter the filtering (ie,
> make only 1 connection to download all message bodies and filter), or such?
> *Anything* to speed up this process.
>
> Thanks,

I do not know. And I do not think so. One thing you can check is whether
your provider provides server based IMAP filters. such that some
filtering will occur on the server.
The other option is to set the filters to be manully run. This way you
can quickly delete the messages that are spam based on sender/subject.
Once that is complete you can sort the email either one at a time or the
bunch of them.

One other question, when a filter applies to a message does it go into a
different IMAP folder?

ie.
inbox
somedata
somedata1
etc.

and all three are on the IMAP server?



AK