I guess it has something to do with Windows updates. Microsoft is changing a lot. Last year I had to find a solution for some older labtop computers - they worked fine with older Win10 versions, but then the spring update did not work. It got installed, I got a blue screen during reboot, it was automatically de-installed, and then the computer automatically tried to install it again - an endless loop. Finally I found out, that if I put a PCMCIA card (any will do!) into the slot, the new version works just fine. In the moment I remove the PCMCIA card again, voila, crash!
Now I encountered the problem that Pmail is very slowly moving, copying and deleting messages. I use Pmail only every few month when my IMAP folder is full to download all mails and delete them on the server. In the meantime I just access them on my android phone with K-9 mail. I am using Pmail for many many years (starting last century, because my University used it), and the folder just moved on from computer to computer. Rarely I encountered a problem. But now: I have about 2000 new mails in the "New mail" folder. I wanted to move them to another folder "2019", but it is so slow, I guess 1 to 10 seconds per mail (I just "crashed" Pmail when I shut down the computer). This week, the computer installed the latest feature update of Win 10. Maybe this caused the trouble?
Anybody else encountered this problem and found a solution?
Edit: I have found the reason for the problem! In the earlier post, I forgot that I exchanged the antivirus program! Before, I have used Avira Antivirus (freeware). But last week I read an article, that the antivirus included in Windows 10 is as good as or even better then all the other antivirus programs. So I de-installed the antivirus program and used the Windows program. In the task manager I noticed, that every time I deleted/moved an email from one folder to another, "Antimalware Service Executable - Windows Defender Antivirus Service" use of CPU ressources went up very much. So, I installed the AVIRA AV program again (then the Win 10 program automatically gets switched off), and - moving 1000 messages from one folder to another just took a few seconds.
So, the Windows program checks each email again, and that slows down Pmail so much that you cannot work with it anymore!
:-) Torsten
<p>I guess it has something to do with Windows updates. Microsoft is changing a lot. Last year I had to find a solution for some older labtop computers - they worked fine with older Win10 versions, but then the spring update did not work. It got installed, I got a blue screen during reboot, it was automatically de-installed, and then the computer automatically tried to install it again - an endless loop. Finally I found out, that if I put a PCMCIA card (any will do!) into the slot, the new version works just fine. In the moment I remove the PCMCIA card again, voila, crash!</p><p>Now I encountered the problem that Pmail is very slowly moving, copying and deleting messages. I use Pmail only every few month when my IMAP folder is full to download all mails and delete them on the server. In the meantime I just access them on my android phone with K-9 mail. I am using Pmail for many many years (starting last century, because my University used it), and the folder just moved on from computer to computer. Rarely I encountered a problem. But now: I have about 2000 new mails in the "New mail" folder. I wanted to move them to another folder "2019", but it is so slow, I guess 1 to 10 seconds per mail (I just "crashed" Pmail when I shut down the computer). This week, the computer installed the latest feature update of Win 10. Maybe this caused the trouble?
</p><p>&nbsp;Anybody else encountered this problem and found a solution?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Edit: I have found the reason for the problem! In the earlier post, I forgot that I exchanged the antivirus program! Before, I have used Avira Antivirus (freeware). But last week I read an article, that the antivirus included in Windows 10 is as good as or even better then all the other antivirus programs. So I de-installed the antivirus program and used the Windows program. In the task manager I noticed, that every time I deleted/moved an email from one folder to another, "Antimalware Service Executable - Windows Defender Antivirus Service" use of CPU ressources went up very much. So, I installed the AVIRA AV program again (then the Win 10 program automatically gets switched off), and - moving 1000 messages from one folder to another just took a few seconds. </p><p>&nbsp;So, the Windows program checks each email again, and that slows down Pmail so much that you cannot work with it anymore!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>:-) Torsten
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