[sylpheed:31360] Re: locked while automatically downloading new messages

[Hiroyuki Yamamoto]

Hello,

On Mon, 28 May 2007 09:38:41 +0300
Cristian Secară <orice at secarica.ro> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 May 2007 11:05:44 +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote:
> 
> > Sylpheed uses "non-blocking" I/O for POP3 and SMTP. blocking I/O is
> > used only for IMAP4 and NNTP.
> 
> I don't know what all that non/blocking means, but I do know that when
> I am sending something (SNMP), the application is completely locked
> for any other task.

It is intended that the UI is blocked until sending finishes. I think
this was added to ensure that the composition window will not be
modified while sending is in progress.

Note that this doesn't mean Sylpheed is using blocking I/O.

-- 
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y at kcn.ne.jp>