[sylpheed:30060] Re: App hangs while getting mails

[Gene Goldenfeld]

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

>On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:07:10 +0200, Oliver Meißner-Knippschild
><lists.o at la-familia-grande.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> first of all I want to to thank Hiroyuki for developing this great
>> application.
>> 
>> But when composing a message and sylpheed auto-receives mails from
>> various IMAP-servers there is no response from the composing-window.
>> For me receiving mails is a procedure that takes about 30 to 40
>> seconds. During this time I can't type and have to wait until all the
>> imap-folders were looked up. Is there any solution to activate the
>> "responsement" of the graphical components while receiving mails?
>> 
>This is by far my biggest complaint about sylpheed -- that other
>interactions are frozen while retrieving email and scanning folders for
>new email.

As well as while opening a link from an email, so there's not only a
wait but focus has to be regained to Sylpheed.

Gene