It seems that when I run mail monitor (Windows XP Home) my CPU usage for explorer stays constantly between 25 and 35 percent! It's making my laptop fan spin like crazy. When I pause it, the CPU usage goes back down. I used to use an older version of mail monitor and never noticed this issue... Is this intended? Or is it a bug?
I wish mail monitor (and TLB for that matter) would show up as processes in the task manager so I could monitor their system resource usage. As it is, I notice it makes a difference in the resources used by 'explorer'.
Not repro.
How many accounts are checked and what is the check interval? DialUp, ADSL?
It's 4 accounts. I had them all set at 2 minutes. Then I changed them to 5 minutes and had the same problem. When I noticed this I was on a 56k modem connection. Tonight when I go back home, I can try it with dsl and report back whether it still happens.
I just installed it at work on a Win2000 workstation, and it's fine. I'll test on XP again later. If I continue to have the problem, is it possible to download an older version?
I use MM 1.8 and don't have this problem. I have it set to check 2 accounts every 5 mins on broadband. My CPU usage stays around 2%.
Maybe MM is conflicting with another program on your system(s)?
So weird... Home now. It seems that when I have only one email account configured, the explorer cpu usage is around 2 or 3. Once I have 2 or more accounts configured, the explorer cpu usage goes up to 25 or 30 and stays there. When I remove one account, it goes back down again. This is happening even if TLB is the only thing running on my computer. I am very careful about startup items and anything using up system resources so I really don't think it is conflicting with something else...
Can anyone get me an older version of mailmon to try?
Try to set the Connection option into modem or lan for every account. Do not use IE settings
Interesting! That seemed to work. I set all the accounts to lan (since I am on dsl right now) and the cpu usage is normal again. The only problem is that this is a laptop, and sometimes I'm connected through dial-up and sometimes through dsl. Will I have to change all the account settings each time? I think on the old plugin it worked with the IE settings... in other words it would use whichever connection was present, and if there wasn't one, it would wait and not try to check for email. Am I wrong about that?
OK... I figured out that it all works out perfectly when I have all account set to modem connection. It detects both the dsl and dial-up connections that way.
Thanks for the tip!