[Users] Downloads for offline use need to be multi-threaded for speed

[blind Pete]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 20:41:35 +0530
Rajib Bandopadhyay <bkpsusmitaa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Friends,
> 
> The pre-processing filters make
> claws-mail terribly slow to download
> posts from newsgroups.
> 
> The speed could be sufficiently improved
> if the downloads are made
> multi-threaded.
> 
> Is it possible to improve upon the
> download speed?
> 
> Could this be implemented please?
> 
> Regards
> Rajib Bandopadhyay

Consider installing a news spool.  I use leafnode, but there are
others.  The news spooler periodically downloads news posts in 
the background, then your news reader only has to fetch items 
from the hard drive.  

One day I have to get around to configuring dovecot to do the 
same job for mail.  

-- 
testing
bP
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