Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection
Hi, I am not very experienced with different email clients, however have you seen Tinymail, Modest and may be some other? http://www.tinymail.org/trac/tinymail Tinymail is just a library for mobile environments. It is mainly designed and written by Philip Van Hoof. He mentions TMut, Modest as examples of clients using Tinymail. May be these are good, may be not. I don't know. I just had the fortune to work with Philip and on Modest for a month. I liked the style of him and the team of Modest. I hope these will be successful softwares. Pe'ter Csa'sza'r Grant írta: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be an improvement? Any other recommendations? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be an improvement? Any other recommendations? Is it running on your local machine? I think the amount of data downloaded should be the same for any client which uses the same protocol, I would think. Obviously you can disable image loading for HTML emails. You could also set it to download headers only, and bodies only when you open a message. You can set Thunderbird to not check for new mail except for when you tell it to. You might also consider a web-based e-mail solution. Figuring out where the slowness is worst (do you have 1000 emails in your inbox?) and try to come up with a way to avoid it. Good luck, Paul
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Grant wrote: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be an improvement? Any other recommendations? - Grant When I use my gprs connection (5kb/s max download speed on well covered areas) I feel confortable with mutt over gmail's imap. Obviously I avoid opening messages with big attachments (mutt shows the size of the message in a summary without opening it)
Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just slow. Would something like mutt be an improvement? Any other recommendations? Sorry, I don't quite understand your setup: Are you: a) Running a remote desktop / X over ssh type scenario where you run Thunderbird from a server on your client over a slow internet connection? If so, then certainly using a text-based client like Mutt will help. b) Reading mail that is stored remotedly on a local computer? via IMAP? In this case I cannot say, not having used Thunderbird or squirrelmail. This really depends on how efficiently the individual clients are coded, and the best way to find out is to just try them out and see if you get an improvement. Theoretically the limit imposed on the mail clients by your slow internet connection should be the same. c) doing something else completely? Can you explain what you mean by Thunderbird loading? Loading what? The program itself? Or a particular e-mail? As it stands, your e-mail really doesn't give us much information about what your setup is and what you would like to improve. One thing that I just thought of: often it maybe faster (if you have the access) to ssh into the mail server and run mutt there compared to using IMAP. Especially with e-mails with attached pictures and HTML mark-up: if you parse those on the server with lynx and send only the text through the ssh, it will often be faster than downloading the entire mail and parsing it locally. Regards, W -- If you buy the paperback version of Maxwell's _Treatise_, on the cover, this diagram is drawn... worked out in the 1870's, without a pocket calculator... ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 683 days, 14:34
