Ramil Galib wrote:
I'd like to give my two cents for this. With regards to bandwidth, the main issue here is how frequently will the users access their mailboxes on yahoo or gmail, and the number of incoming email and message size. With a slow bandwidth and large amount of incoming email, it would make sense to use yahoo and gmail as is, or using an email client that uses IMAP protocol. POP3 is not advised, since this will download all the email in the yahoo or gmail inboxes, unless one is worried about security.Hi folks, It seems that everybody in my network is using yahoo mail or gmail. Since we have a slow internet connection, is there a difference in bandwidth utilization if they used email clients (Evolution, Thunderbird, ...) compared to accessing directly using a browser? Is there a way to cache emails from yahoo and gmail and route it to users in my network? An email gateway/proxy perhaps (if this is the right term). Hope you can give insights. Thanks. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
About caching email, fetchmail can do the trick, although it involves manually configuring all the accounts that will be accessed over yahoo and gmail, in addition to setting up a separate MTA to deliver to the backend mailboxes. In this case, email clients can be used to access the local mailbox backend to retrieve the email. The downside for this setup is that there is a delay in retrieving up to date email, since one will want to schedule the retrieval of email to conserve bandwidth,
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