Eric S Fraga writes: > The issue is not the email front-end per se but the email servers (IMAP, > POP, whatever). A couple of years ago, I ended up having to use an > email server that would take many seconds, often minutes, to access, > even just to query to find out if there was any new email.
Well, i run getmail+procmail to fetch and sort my mail, so if a server is running slowly, that doesn't affect Emacs. Emacs is only affected by e.g. mu indexing newly-arrived emails, which is fast enough that i don't notice it. Alexis.