Tim writes:
> Update:
>
> I just did some poking around and it looks like the problem is in the
> sheer amount of data that gets transmitted.
>
> From the index page, if I click on a 2344 bytes e-mail (size of the file
> in my Maildir), netstat says that approximately 19kbytes gets sent from
> the remote end and another 2kbytes in return. There are obviously TCP/IP
> and other overheads in here but I think it's pretty obvious that sqwebmail
> is sending a whole LOT of data to display a message.
>
> Simple math says that a 56k modem connection will take nearly 4 seconds
> just to transfer all this (ignoring modem and/or software compression -
> I am not running gzip).
>
> I saved the raw HTML file from the message body and it is a 19kbytes
> file! This is from the original 2kbytes e-mail - that is probably why it
> feels so slow.
Well, that's what's gzip is for. Displaying a message can generate lots of
data, since most of the time text/plain content must be converted to
text/html content, not to mention headers should be nicely displayed. Plus,
in the new version, mail addresses in headers are hyperlinked to the
addressbook.
That's the price for progress, I suppose.
--
Sam
