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Hi Edward,
The mail should be moving at the normal rate again.
We had a problem with an overheating processor shutting down the
system but now have it repaired. The mail became backed up during
the few days we had the problems but we've now caught up. As luck
would have it, just as we were getting the backlog cleared up, we were
hit with a spam storm from the internet which added to the backlog.
As for improving speed of email, try using a standalone program
called Mozilla Thunderbird (which is a free email program from
www.mozilla.org), and use the POP3 server which is quicker to retrieve
email. That way, once you've download your email, Thunderbird
manipulates it however you want and the speed of Thunderbird is only
limited by the speed of your PC which should be pretty quick.
When you're ready to send any email, Thunderbird will upload it to
your SMTP server (which may be Sympatico or CCN, whichever service
you're connected to at the time). All the composing and reading is
done on your home computer at its speed and not over the phone line,
which is pretty slow to begin with.
With WebMail, you have to wait until your computer and CCN talk
back and forth over the dialup line to redraw each screen etc, and
this could get slowed down if there is a lot of traffic online.
CCN Help
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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Edward Paterson wrote:
> My original computer with which I started my Email with Chebucto is
> a very slow dial up system and for the past two years I have a high
> speed Dell with the Email portion operated by Sympatico. I have,
> however, continued using Chebucto for my Email and have very rarely
> used the Sympatico sytem. My problem in the last few weeks has been
> the slowness of the Chebucto Email. I often have to wait up to two
> minutes just going on to the next message. When going directly on
> to the internet either through google or on to web sites using www.
> etc I have no problems with the speed. I have Windows XP. Is there
> anything that can be done regarding this as it has been working
> well, previously. Thanks for any help you can give.
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