[imp] msie 6.0 / winxp slowness (Solved, for me at least)

[Doug Curtis]

Sorry , one other thing.

I just had a user who was having the same problem.  I had to set his to 15 
in order to work.  He had 65 messages in his inbox.

Doug

At 04:27 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, Doug Curtis wrote:
>I hate changing threads but maybe this will help someone else.
>
>I started to think about this logically.  Why are only certain users 
>having this problem?
>
>I created a new dummy account and was able to login fine.
>
> From there I started to compare the options in IMP from my account to the 
> dummy account.
>
>I narrowed it down to how many messages are being displayed on each 
>page.  For example, my dummy account had 1 message in the inbox.  My 
>account has 36 in the inbox.  When I changed the number on my account to 
>anything lower than 27, it worked fine. 27 and higher, it started to do 
>the same thing again.
>
>So, in the options page, under Display options, try changing the number in 
>"Messages per page in the mailbox view" back to the default of 20.  (This 
>is assuming that people have changed it from the default)
>
>Can anyone else confirm if this helps them?
>
>Doug
>
>At 02:31 PM 3/19/2003 -0600, Eric Rostetter wrote:
>>Quoting Liam Hoekenga <liamr at umich.edu>:
>>
>> > I vaguely recall something about this showing up on one of the horde
>> > lists previously.  We've gotten reports from a few very vocal users
>> > that our IMP installation is "unuseably slow" from MSIE 6.0 on WinXP.
>> > I couldn't replicate this on my home machine.
>>
>>There have been some problems here.  You don't give enough info to
>>nail the cause down, as there are various problems with IE 6.0.
>>
>> > Has anyone else run into this with their installations?  Is it a Horde
>> > / IMP thing?  Is it an Apache / Mod_SSL thing?  Or is this a "users
>> > smoking too much crack" kinda thing?  I'm leaning towards option 3.
>>
>>IF you have apache/mod_ssl behind a firewall that does syn attack checking,
>>and the images/icons load painfully slow, then disable the syn checking.
>>IE violates RFC's (who would have guessed), and will trigger your syn
>>attack rules when fetching images.
>>
>>If you have .net installed on the affected machines, a good chance that
>>removing the .net framework will fix it.
>>
>>I see some wierd stuff with individual e-mail accounts and IE 6.0 that
>>I can't explain.  All Horde works except getting into the inbox hangs/stalls
>>*sometimes*.  Solution so far is to use something other than IE 6.0.
>>
>>Probably more problems/solutions also.  Would need a better problem
>>description to help more.
>>
>> > thanks
>> > Liam
>>
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>>The Department of Physics
>>The University of Texas at Austin
>>
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