Progress Bar doesn't work : Eudora

Hi all, I'm using 7.1.0.9, paid mode. Since getting a new computer
(Dell XPS410 with Core 2 Duo Proc.) The progress bar doesn't work.
When receiveing mail it just sits there until the mail is in and then
jumps all the way across. Well, that's for one piece of mail. If
there are, say, three, it jumps one-third of the way over after each
one is received.

It's worse on send; it just jumps over immiediately, showing that the
mail and attachments are all done, even though they're not. I'm in
the boondocks on dial-up and I sometimes have to send large files to
clients. I just have to watch the "little screens" on the task bar
and wait unitl I think the attachment has been sent.

Any ideas?
Thanks

On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:21:04 -0400, David W. wrote:

>Hi all, I'm using 7.1.0.9, paid mode. Since getting a new computer
>(Dell XPS410 with Core 2 Duo Proc.) The progress bar doesn't work.
>When receiveing mail it just sits there until the mail is in and then
>jumps all the way across. Well, that's for one piece of mail. If
>there are, say, three, it jumps one-third of the way over after each
>one is received.
>
>It's worse on send; it just jumps over immiediately, showing that the
>mail and attachments are all done, even though they're not. I'm in
>the boondocks on dial-up and I sometimes have to send large files to
>clients. I just have to watch the "little screens" on the task bar
>and wait unitl I think the attachment has been sent.

>Any ideas?

It sounds like your anti-virus software is using a
proxy server to scan your email. You may be able to
monitor the progress from that program, or you could
opt to disable email scanning.

Erik

David W. <dpwON@MAPSvance.net> wrote:

>Hi all, I'm using 7.1.0.9, paid mode. Since getting a new computer
>(Dell XPS410 with Core 2 Duo Proc.) The progress bar doesn't work.
>When receiveing mail it just sits there until the mail is in and then
>jumps all the way across. Well, that's for one piece of mail. If
>there are, say, three, it jumps one-third of the way over after each
>one is received.
>
>It's worse on send; it just jumps over immiediately, showing that the
>mail and attachments are all done, even though they're not. I'm in
>the boondocks on dial-up and I sometimes have to send large files to
>clients. I just have to watch the "little screens" on the task bar
>and wait unitl I think the attachment has been sent.

This is because your Anti-virus software reads the email into memory,
(which is a slow process), during which time it is giving Eudora
nothing, or maybe just a few tidbits of headers to keep it from timing
out. When it has finished reading the whole mail into memory, and
scanning it for viruses, it then transfers the whole email to Eudora.
As the speed of this in-memory transfer is limited only by the speed
of your computer, it is very fast, so the Eudora progress bar leaps
from email to email instantly. Likewise with send. Unfortunately there
is nothing Eudora can do about this.

Thanks much for your replies. With this info. I have disabled
"outbound scanning" in my McAfee Viruscan and Voila! I can now be sure
when an attachment has been sent.

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:24:26 -0400, David W. <dpwON@MAPSvance.net>
wrote:

>Thanks much for your replies. With this info. I have disabled
>"outbound scanning" in my McAfee Viruscan and Voila! I can now be sure
>when an attachment has been sent.

Get rid of that McAfee crap.

Get Avast anti-virus. It's free for home use.


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