I received once... On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Indulekha <indule...@theunworthy.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:49:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 30 apr 12, 20:11:36, Indulekha wrote: >> > >> > Ok, so I subscribed the "normal" way, and I'll just periodically purge the >> > mails to avoid waiting for 857,000 emails to load over dialup. >> >> Not sure what you mean, but just about every mail retriever that I know >> of will not re-download mail unless told so. >> >> In order to save bandwidth you may want to use IMAP + downloading >> headers only ;) >> > > That *is* what I do, as I said I'm stuck using an absurdly slow dial up > connection. In this part of the country our phone lines are so bad my > connection speed hovers between 1.5 and 5.9 kbps (no, not a typo)! > If you've never experienced that, you probably wouldn't understand... > Just opening an imap mailbox with more than a few hundred messages in > it (with header caching) can take several minutes. > It's the only real downside to living in this extremely rural area. > > -- > ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ > Indulekha > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502113859.GB5362@radhesyama >
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