Oops! Never mind, it turns out it was the server after all. I didn't realize
that fetchmail defaulted to IMAP until I ran it with -v. When I switched to
POP3, it started to zoom! Guess the IMAP server (IMail) doesn't work well with
inboxes with 10,000 messages!
Jen
----- Original Message -----
From: jennyw
To: fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:24 AM
Subject: Fetchmail is really slow
I'm currently fetching mail from a POP server, and fetchmail is taking almost
a minute to download each message. Just to test to see if it was the server or
not, I stopped fetchmail and then switched to another computer and tried
downloading messages using Outlook Express. OE downloads much faster -- a
second or two for each message.
I'm running fetchmail like this:
fetchmail -a server.com -u user
There are a little more than 10,000 messages in this particular account. Any
suggestions on what I might be doing wrong, or how to speed up fetchmail?
Thanks!
Jen