Re: [Evolution] nonstandard server ports?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

If it's slow then it'd be network slowness probably. Using a
non-standard port shouldn't make things slower for any reason.

Also, remember that communication over an encrypted tunnel will be a bit
slower than over cleartext.

Jeff

On 12 Feb 2001 15:59:53 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > In the server entry, you should be able to specify server:port
> >
> > I'll look at the code to make sure I didn't forget to handle this...
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Hm, I take it back... it does seem to work, although perhaps buggily -
> updates are seemingly very slow for the nonstandard port (maybe that's
> because it's the first read of a large imap mailbox...), and one time
> the "getting mail" progress dialog showed complete, but would not
> respond to an "ok" click.
>
> I'll use it some more and see if I can get a better idea of what the
> problem might be.  Or if there is one at all.  :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Eric