Tiger Mail App very slow retrieving IMAP Mail

gherkin

09-05-2005, 07:08 AM

Hi,

I am using my powerbook on my corporate network and tried using the Mail app in Tiger to retrieve my IMAP mail.

It can take 3 or 4 minutes to retrieve one single email message which contains one line of text. This is making the use of the Mail app impossible. However I want to keep using it because of the address book integration.

I have tested Thunderbird against the same IMAP account and it works perfectly.

Any ideas ?

If not any ideas on a good email app with decent IMAP support and Address Book integration.

Thanks.

Raven

09-06-2005, 09:34 AM

Weel mail should be as fast a Thunderbird at retreiving IMAP mail. So, how big is your mail box ? Could you also tell us what Mac OS you are using ?
One thing you can try is to go lower the MTU value for your built-in ethernet in the Ethernet tab through the Network System Pref pane. Lower it to something like 1400 and see what it does.
Idealy do close Mail first, change the value, then startup Mail again and see if the speed is changed.

gherkin

09-08-2005, 06:38 AM

I am using 10.4.2 and the stnadard mail app. My mailbox is very small, less than 100 messages with no large attachments.

Tried changing the MTU but it made no difference.

rgillig

09-08-2005, 11:38 AM

gherkin,

You can setup a free trial imap .mac account. This would give you, with a few minutes effort, a reference to judge your other imap account against.
(use port 587 for the outgoing mail server setting in mail.app).

FWIW, I was working yesterday with 10.4.2, mail.app, and an imap server on the internet and it worked well.

Good luck.

uuilly

09-27-2005, 12:30 AM

Mail.app is brutally slow since moving to tiger. I have a .mac account w/ about 200 mb on it. It feels like I'm having all the same issues that I had w/ mail.app in 0S X.1: Takes forever to send mail w/ attachments, it takes forever for read mail to become un-read mail etc... Also takes forever to get simple one line messages. I'm downloading thunderbird right now to see if the problem is on the server.

heluani

09-28-2005, 04:53 PM

Try different settings in the preferences like "download everything" or "download nothing" to see if there's any difference. Sync the IMAP account and check if this procedure takes different times under different preferences.

R.

nino

09-28-2005, 07:08 PM

There used to be an issue with the firewall and mail. Try turning off your firewall and see if the mail problem persists.

uuilly

10-07-2005, 12:55 AM

Its size that counts. .mac started giving me more storage, so naturally I started to use it. It really doesn't work well, and I just store the bulk of my old mail on my local machine. I don't really think it is just an imap thing, b/c thunderbird works great. Only trouble is, no addressbook... Oh well...

Cantello

10-25-2005, 12:34 AM

I have experienced the same behaviour. A moderately big IMAP account (GMX in Germany, approx. 220MB on it in 10 folders), which works very well with Thunderbird and is slow as molasses with Mail.app (10.4.2).

Any more ideas why this is the case? Or does noone use IMAP?