[Users] Claws Mail using 100% CPU

[Peter Richards]

On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 07:05:41 -0000
Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 08:27:09 +1000
> Peter Richards <peter777 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote: 
> 
> > Okay thanks. I'll ask the company that handle that. But if the
> > server had that limit, wouldn't it send an indication (like the old
> > ENQ/ACK) to the mail client to 'wait' or similar ?  
> 
> Not necessarily.

I have raised the issue with the ISP and they are looking into it.

> > The current value is 225 for some reason. It seems a generic thing
> > though, that setting. If I lower it, other accounts may not retrieve
> > emails, it will just timeout all the time.  
> 
> Why do you think that? Do some of your accounts take more than 5 or 10
> seconds to connect? I don't think any of them would need 225 seconds,
> and that means you'd wait over 3 minutes for a failing connection.
> Why not just try it? You can always change the value again later.

There would have been some reason for making it so large, it was one of
the accounts timing out all the time.

> In fact, setting it to 5 or 10 seconds might well answer your first
> question.

Okay, I have set it to 10 seconds now, thanks.

Cheers,

Peter