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
