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From: Momesso Andrea <momesso.andrea@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:41:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081021154139.GA5935@revolver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10810210815s5169087bt3132569b5e9a8d56@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now.  The
> email client seems to be the major productivity blocker.  Thunderbird
> spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just
> slow.  Would something like mutt be an improvement?  Any other
> recommendations?
> 
> - Grant
>

When I use my gprs connection (5kb/s max download speed on well covered
areas) I feel confortable with mutt over gmail's imap.

Obviously I avoid opening messages with big attachments (mutt shows the
size of the message in a summary without opening it)




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 15:15 [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection Grant
2008-10-21 15:39 ` Paul Hartman
2008-10-21 15:41 ` Momesso Andrea [this message]
2008-10-21 15:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2008-10-21 20:26   ` John J. Foster
2008-10-21 16:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Willie Wong
2008-10-22 18:37 ` Pe'ter, Csa'sza'r
2008-10-22 22:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Vitus Jensen

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