Andi Vajda wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Brian Kirsch wrote: >> With a fast connection,The Chandler Mail Service can download and >> process 6,000+ messages before the >> first 1,000 messages have been committed including notifications > > True but how often does someone have to download 6000 messages ? > 1000 messages ?
Speed is a barrier of adoption to some. If it took me hours to download my mailbox the first time to try a new email program I would probably give up, unless there was some promise of killer features I'd really want to have. Also, I get a few hundred emails a day (I am on many mailing lists), most of which I only need to scan the summaries to decide if I need to read. In Thunderbird it takes just a few seconds to download all the headers, and less than a minute for the anti-spam engine to download the contents of all these messages to mark some as spam. This is all so fast I don't generally need to think about speed. So I think that if some email client took longer than a minute to deal with all that I would be tempted to look for a faster client. On the other hand, with people that only get a dozen or so emails a day and check email once or twice a day this wouldn't be an issue. But then again, these users don't need much from their email application in the first place. -- Heikki Toivonen
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