First of all, thanks to all of your thoughtful responses. This forum and its members are truly outstanding.
Having received mixed responses on this matter, It seems there may not a Lead Pipe best way of dealing with a 56k circuit and email delivery, but I now have plenty of different options to evaluate. I started by checking out the config of Outlook 2002 on our test laptop. I checked on the "Download Header Only" option mentioned and Outlook 2002 doesn't appear to have such an option. I am going to check Outlook 2003 to see if it has that option. I will post back to the list as my testing progresses. Thanks again, Marty P. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Shanbrom [Ipswitch] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 6:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Slow 56k Links The one thing Dan left out is that he has his client set to download new headers only..This is not the default setting in most clients..The default is to download all messages...With the header only download this cuts way down on usage as you will only grab the ones you are interested in over the slow connection ************ 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. 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/
