OE6 hangs at end of receiving mail

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From: Steve IA (saharvey_at_lassiececnetnet.net)
Date: 12/08/04 

Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 09:11:15 -0600

I'm running win98 with oe6 and have had an intermittant problem with the
program freezing at the end of email receiving. The freeze last from 20
secs to 1 minute and nothing else can be done within OE until the hang
is over. C-A-D shows OE 'not responding'. I've posted here before and
gotten much advise, but none that fixed the problem. I've turned off my
AV email scan, I've even snoozed the AV while receiving. I've followed
the suggestions at Inside OE by Tomsterdam. I've created new
identities. I've created pop3 logs and studied for issues there. Nothing
has worked until now.
I turned off the 'Play sound when new messages arrive' Tools> options>
general. Voila! No more hangs. I've tested it several times over the
past 4 days and it does not ever hang when the sound is off, but will
occasionally hang (as before) with the sound enabled. Right now I'm
testing with a different sound just out of curiosity to see if the
'Notify' sound file is corrupt somehow.
This is really hard to test as I haven't figured out the exact
circumstances when it will hang, other than the sound file is enabled.
I'm testing anecdotally and it takes a while and then one can't be sure.
I did some google research and can find no reference to interence of
sound files with program functions. Any thoughts?
Just wanted to pass this along in case it might help someone.

Steve
southiowa

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