From: "George Sherwood" 

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:13:08 -0400, George Sherwood wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:02:25 -0700, Randall Parker wrote:
>> I click a message and it loads instantly. Then I click another message
>> and it takes 30 seconds to load.
>>
>> I've got a WinXP Home connected to the same firewall and Thunderbird on
>> it does not have this problem.
>
> I don't have a solution, but I have a similar problem with Linux here.  In
> windows with the same DNS settings I don't see it, but from some other
> issues I am seeing, I am pretty sure it is DNS.  Will have to put some
> IP's in the hosts file to see if I can figure it out.  I do know that the
> DNS servers for this DSL service in Azerbaijan, really suck.  I often have
> to reboot the modem just to get DNS back.

Definitely DNS related since putting the IP in the hosts file made
everything very snappy using pan in Linux.

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