IMAP is a HUGE bandwidth hog ... I would say local LAN or 10Mb connection minimum. Stay with POP3
Christopher Checca Packard Transport, Inc. IT Department 24021 South Municipal Dr PO Box 380 Channahon, IL. 60410 815 467 9260 815 467 6939 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.packardtransport.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MARTIN PIGG Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 6:47 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/
