Email Client w/Parallel Mail Retrieval

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Every email client I've used with multiple account accesses the various
servers serially: contacts first server, waits and downloads, closes
connection, contacts next server, etc. etc. This is more of an issue if
one server is particularly slow, but even if not it is not the best
approach.

What I'd like is a client that will contact all servers at the same time
and do the downloads in parallel. Anything like this exist?
 
Every email client I've used with multiple account accesses the various
servers serially: contacts first server, waits and downloads, closes
connection, contacts next server, etc. etc. This is more of an issue if
one server is particularly slow, but even if not it is not the best
approach.

What I'd like is a client that will contact all servers at the same time
and do the downloads in parallel. Anything like this exist?
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I use TBird for IMAP/POP and Eudora for POP and they do.
 
On 21 Feb 2005, Invisible Pedestrian wrote
Every email client I've used with multiple account accesses the
various servers serially: contacts first server, waits and
downloads, closes connection, contacts next server, etc. etc.
This is more of an issue if one server is particularly slow, but
even if not it is not the best approach.

What I'd like is a client that will contact all servers at the
same time and do the downloads in parallel. Anything like this
exist?
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I'd have expected Thunderbird to do this -- or any modern POP client --
but I'm not certain about it.

(AFAICT, I get simultaneous checking/downloading of the three accounts
I group-check with my current mail client -- but naming it is OT here,
as it's not free.)
 
Chrissy Cruiser said:
I use TBird for IMAP/POP and Eudora for POP and they do.
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I use TBird also. It lets you check everything at once, but it does it
serially.

Unless there's a plugin I've missed.
 
I use TBird also. It lets you check everything at once, but it does it
serially.

Unless there's a plugin I've missed.
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There is a Get Mail plugin that allows all at once or individually in a
pull down menu.
 
Chrissy Cruiser said:
There is a Get Mail plugin that allows all at once or individually in
a pull down menu.
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Not what I'm talking about. Every when you say "all at once" it does each
server individually. Serially.

I'm saying I want it to go out to all the servers at the same time.
 
Invisible Pedestrian said:
Not what I'm talking about. Every when you say "all at once" it does each
server individually. Serially.

I'm saying I want it to go out to all the servers at the same time.
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What you need is a client with simultaneous multi-thread support.
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any freeware (or commercialware for that
matter) that can do this.

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somewhere@in- said:
What you need is a client with simultaneous multi-thread support.
Unfortunately I'm not aware of any freeware (or commercialware for that
matter) that can do this.
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My email client does, but it's not freeware. I'm not aware of any
freeware that does it.
 
GlintingHedgehog said:
My email client does, but it's not freeware. I'm not aware of any
freeware that does it.
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I'm aware of the terminology. I was thinking of writing one myself if it
didn't exist.

Hamster can gather email and act as a local server so it's fairly quick.
That's what I have done but I'd like to eliminate the middleman.
 
Not what I'm talking about. Every when you say "all at once" it does each
server individually. Serially.

I'm saying I want it to go out to all the servers at the same time.
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You sure? I check 6 IMAPs and one POP in about fourteen nanoseconds.
 
Opera's email client does. It checks and downloads 18 accounts
simultaneously for me.

I thought Eudora did too, but it's a long time since I used that, so my
recollection may be wrong.
 
Chrissy Cruiser said:
You sure? I check 6 IMAPs and one POP in about fourteen nanoseconds.
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Yes, I'm fairly certain, as that's what it does for me and I could not find
any extensions that change that behavior.
 
Every email client I've used with multiple account accesses the
various servers serially: contacts first server, waits and
downloads, closes connection, contacts next server, etc. etc.
This is more of an issue if one server is particularly slow, but
even if not it is not the best approach.

What I'd like is a client that will contact all servers at the
same time and do the downloads in parallel. Anything like this
exist?
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I don't know of one. I use the local server Hamster, which will
simultaneously connect to and download from multiple remote servers,
but a local server is probably overkill to solve this one issue.

Just in case, though, the url is <http://www.tglsoft.de/>.
 
I use the local server Hamster, which will
simultaneously connect to and download from multiple remote servers,
but a local server is probably overkill to solve this one issue.
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Well, it looks like I was wrong anyway. Hamster also pulls from them
sequentially.
 
Are you sure ? I often run Hamster with four, or more, concurrent
tasks running. I would think that each "task" could be a POP server
download.
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You can confirm by selecting Online | All POP3-servers, then taking a
look at the log. It disconnects from one before connecting to the
next.
 
Invisible said:
Every email client I've used with multiple account accesses the various
servers serially: contacts first server, waits and downloads, closes
connection, contacts next server, etc. etc. This is more of an issue if
one server is particularly slow, but even if not it is not the best
approach.

What I'd like is a client that will contact all servers at the same time
and do the downloads in parallel. Anything like this exist?
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Yes, InScribe, the $$ version of i.Scribe.
http://www.memecode.com/inscribe.php
 
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