[Macpartners] Possible Problem with Mail and 10.3.9

[Mateja Miljacki]

Folks,

The Mail.app sluggishness seems directly related to SSL and Exchange  
servers. If you can enable Kerberos instead you will have better  
performance.

More information can be found at:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20050427062905210

Waiting for a fix,
Mateja.

> Hi all,
>
> I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents. I've been too busy for the last 2
> weeks to do anything about this issue. If I encountered the problem
> with a single piece of email, I'd just go to another email message.
> When I returned to the problem email, the problem was gone! This has
> been working since I broke down and upgraded to 10.3.9.
>
> Today I encountered the problem with ALL of my email! So I just quit
> Mail and went on with other work. The quitting process took close  
> to 30
> minutes! But the problem was gone when I relaunched Mail. But this
> "hang" caused all of my filtering (including Mail.app SPAM filters) to
> go south! What I came to realize is how much Mail.app is filtering out
> SPAM that Spam Assassin is missing!
>
> Carolyn
>
> On Apr 26, 2005, at 9:22 PM, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>
>
>> Although I am doing OK, you might be experiencing problems with the
>> network since going back to 10.3.8 did not help.  Also one suggestion
>> I got which seems to help is to switch to Kerberos authentication for
>> incoming e-mail.  This is not officially supported, but works for me.
>>
>> What you do is go to Preferences > Accounts > Advanced; uncheck the
>> Use SSL checkbox; from the Authentication pop-up menu, select  
>> Kerberos
>> 4.
>>
>> Roger A. Roach
>> Director of I/T Service Emeritus
>> Information Services & Technology
>> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>> Room W91-205C
>> 77 Massachusetts Ave.                phone: 617.253.7011
>> Cambridge, MA 02139-4307      fax:   617.253.1266
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2005, at 4:51 PM, Helen Rose wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 22, 2005, at 12:16, Roger A. Roach wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think I have solved my problem.  At the suggestion of Bill Brids
>>>> of the Helpdesk, I deleted my account in Apple Mail and
>>>> re-established it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Deleting/re-adding the account did not work for one of my users. The
>>> slowness problems persisted.
>>>
>>> A couple of my users and I both tried to go back to Apple Mail from
>>> OS 10.3.8, which did not seem to help with the slowness problems
>>> either.
>>>
>>> I'm copying Jay McSweeney to see if he has any ideas on what's going
>>> on with Apple Mail slowness under 10.3.9.
>>>
>>> --Helen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>
> ---
> Carolyn Fuller
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Information Services and Technology
> Administrative Computing
> Senior Analyst/ Programmer
> (617) 253-6213
> http://fuller.mit.edu/