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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The |
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> email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird |
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> spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just |
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> slow. Would something like mutt be an improvement? Any other |
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> recommendations? |
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Is it running on your local machine? I think the amount of data |
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downloaded should be the same for any client which uses the same |
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protocol, I would think. |
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Obviously you can disable image loading for HTML emails. You could |
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also set it to download headers only, and bodies only when you open a |
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message. You can set Thunderbird to not check for new mail except for |
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when you tell it to. |
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You might also consider a web-based e-mail solution. |
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Figuring out where the slowness is worst (do you have 1000 emails in |
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your inbox?) and try to come up with a way to avoid it. |
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Good luck, |
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Paul |
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