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

[Doug Curtis]

So changing the number of messages per page hasn't helped anyone else?  

Doug

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:
> 
> > I have this same problem... except I only see it with IE 6 and Win2K.  I
> use
> 
> I've seen the same thing on IE 6.0 + Win2K.
> 
> > every so often (maybe 1 in 150 messages) I try to view a message in my
> INBOX
> > and nothing will happen (the browser says "Waiting for
> > bigworm.colorado.edu..." and never changes).  Even more interesting,
> looking
> 
> I get this when trying to enter the INBOX.  But only on 2 out of 1000
> accounts. I can use the same machine/browser/etc and login  to one account
> and it is fine, login to another account and it hangs.
> 
> > at the logs, the page has been sent by the web server.  Additionally, if I
> > view the same mailbox/message on the same computer with Mozilla I have no
> > problems whatsoever.
> 
> Yes, all other browsers work fine, only IE 6 has the problem.
> 
> > As I mentioned previously, I have only seen this on
> > one machine I use so it doesn't appear to be reproducible.
> 
> I have it on two machines.  But it works sometimes, not others, as the
> mail in the user's account changes.  I have a wild guess that it may
> be related to the size of the mailbox -- not that it is big or small,
> but the actual size.  Can't prove it though.  (If it would only happen
> on my own account, rather than some one elses, I'd solve it...)
>  
> > I'm chalking it up to IE behavior rather than anything being broken in
> > IMP/Horde/PHP/Apache but other thoughts are welcome.
> 
> It is likely IE, but could be elsewhere.  Could be a size issue, could be
> even a compression issue?  Very annoying though, what ever it is.
> 
> -- 
> Eric Rostetter
> The Department of Physics
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 
> Why get even? Get odd!
> 
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