While there are other ISPs that can respond with more information, to use IMAP I would say you have to have at least a 192K connection.
John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MARTIN PIGG > Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 4:47 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [IMail Forum] Slow 56k Links > > Good afternoon, > > We are planning an Imail Install and were hoping to get as many of our users as > possible using IMAP. For the local users (that is, they are on the same LAN as the mail > server) the testing went well, as we expected it would. We setup Outlook to use IMAP > and the performance was just fine. > > We have a number of remote sites that only have 56K circuits. Some are in rural > Alaska and bandwidth upgrades aren't really an option for many of these folks for > budgetary reasons. Currently their Outlook clients are setup to use POP3 and they > download their email from the soon to be retired mail server. > > Last week my supervisor and I tested remote mail and the results weren't pretty. > Outlook (configured to use IMAP) would hang when an email message with a large > attachment was accessed. We could use KillerWebMail and open the attachment. Has > anyone had much luck using Outlook over slow circuits in an IMAP config? I suspect > we may have to use POP3 for these locations, or possibly KillerWebMail. > > I guess I am also wondering if a 128k or 256k circuit might be able to handle an > Outlook/IMAP config... > > Thanks in advance for any input you may have. > > Marty P. > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
