John,
I'm running Cups on Mandrake 7.2 and Sylpheed 4.61. I don't have the same
conditions. I'd suggest either downgrading to 4.61 or maybe the problem doesn't exist
with 4.63. 4.61 is very stable however and I'm more than happy with it. (Yes we use
it in the office exclusively)
James Sparenberg
VP Operations
Open Country Inc.
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 03:40:24 +1200
John Rye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> CC: Till Kamppeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: Sylpheed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Interesting problem.
>
> Tonight I downloaded from the Cups site; cups-1.1.6-source.tar.gz and
> proceeded to to compile and install it on my Mandrake 7.1 system.
>
> Cups compiled without difficulty other than warnings from the compiler
> relating to un-initialised variables and similar.
>
> I then attempted to configure it via my browser using both http:// and
> https://localhost:631. This failed with a message indicating that a
> document could not be found. Somewhat confused I decided to see if I
> could get some help.
>
> I brought up my email app of choice (Sylpheed 0.4.62), which until now
> has been functioning without fault.
>
> I hit the compose button of the emailer to write the message and
> Sylpheed appeared to hang. After about 30 seconds I ran Ktop to see what
> was going on and found that the Sylpheed process was consuming around
> 97% of my CPU resources!!
>
> I thought this was odd but took little notice and killed the process and
> tried again with got the same result. Another kill.
>
> At this point I disabled Cups via Startup Services and rebooted -
> assuming that's where the problem had come from, only to get the same
> result.
>
> Something is not right here, and I don't know which way to turn.
>
> Cups doesn't! Sylpheed will download mail (not sure about send) but I
> cannot compose mail without CPU useage getting close to maximum.
>
> Help!!
>
> Cheers
>
> John
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