Hi, Try also "the Bat!" as an alternate mail client. It's perfect and costs only 50 dollars.
"The Bat!" is able to download headers only. I can also set a limit for Mails. Let's say "download only mails less than 100k". I will never use outlook again ;-) ============================================ Am Dienstag, 30. November 2004 um 18:22 schrieben Sie: > 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/ ============================================ -- Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen -------------------------------------------- Merlin Consulting Martin Schaible Bahnhofstrasse 27 CH-8702 Zollikon Phone: +41 1 391 30 00 Fax: +41 1 391 32 49 Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.merlinconsulting.ch Support: http://support.merlinconsulting.ch GPS: N47 20.235 E8 34.226 -------------------------------------------- News - Neue Produkte: .:. Kiwi Syslog Monitor .:. Paessler GmbH .:. Sawmill Loganalyzer -------------------------------------------- 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/
