I agree with other's comments on IMAP. I'm using IMail and IMAP on my server at home behind a 900k/5M cable connection and while it does work fairly well, it can be slow. I normally access it from a 400k/1.2M DSL connection at my office and if I don't keep the folders cleaned out it can take a while to show messages, especially if there are large attachments involved. I was recently forced to use a 24k dialup connection for a few days and frankly, it sucked.
The only reason I use it is for the convenience of being able to see my messages from multiple machines. If it were not for needing access to all my messages all the time, retrieved and sent, from any machine I use, I'd be using POP. ----- Original Message ----- From: "MARTIN PIGG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 19:47 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/
