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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: |
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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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Sorry, I don't quite understand your setup: |
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Are you: |
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a) Running a remote desktop / X over ssh type scenario where you run |
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Thunderbird from a server on your client over a slow internet |
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connection? If so, then certainly using a text-based client like |
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Mutt will help. |
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b) Reading mail that is stored remotedly on a local computer? via |
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IMAP? In this case I cannot say, not having used Thunderbird or |
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squirrelmail. This really depends on how efficiently the individual |
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clients are coded, and the best way to find out is to just try them |
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out and see if you get an improvement. Theoretically the limit |
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imposed on the mail clients by your slow internet connection should |
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be the same. |
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c) doing something else completely? |
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Can you explain what you mean by Thunderbird "loading"? Loading what? |
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The program itself? Or a particular e-mail? |
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As it stands, your e-mail really doesn't give us much information |
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about what your setup is and what you would like to improve. |
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One thing that I just thought of: often it maybe faster (if you have |
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the access) to ssh into the mail server and run mutt there compared to |
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using IMAP. Especially with e-mails with attached pictures and HTML |
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mark-up: if you parse those on the server with lynx and send only the |
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text through the ssh, it will often be faster than downloading the |
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entire mail and parsing it locally. |
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Regards, |
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If you buy the paperback version of Maxwell's _Treatise_, on the cover, |
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this diagram is drawn... worked out in the 1870's, without a pocket |
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calculator... |
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~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304 |
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