From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsJPA-0008Hi-Kn for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DF37E03EA; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com (mail-gx0-f19.google.com [209.85.217.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D46E03EA for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:43:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so5574562gxk.10 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:43:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=W/LdpwIL5fnfgfgF6CRFVkHJmw6CCmTNQTMh4+ZsDkU=; b=Fo9hrwB52hFksEQlkgJIGANaWJ2CRAEDwdAUKBgXP6EKIu11BoVVRJWHNkKZzIW75o Tu7S2CC4bQp0V5QBk215ALcwk385DEBwlYn5DcK9h2R2nUbTnek2Hk6TxiLc/oHeSbFH 2oRlwLErAMQ8WO8OfsbOMAlORlF/REaFu49Bo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=NshDb13xDpPf/Y7ehA5mOXVTA5NLZtCQJCI2iKJKhxj92FTtX2kG4LJY28mOv+iJLM 3vIrZVcODPVzTi2AhBbumJkjs7aK43uaoBvSO3PzOX7/Re75JlP0Pp9vD4an0yWUq2eG F/xbr9E5JeozCYpQRYigYsDLVvNzhQ8LF7WjM= Received: by 10.103.168.5 with SMTP id v5mr4560156muo.35.1224603823411; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from @ ([151.80.67.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j10sm15377198muh.1.2008.10.21.08.43.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:43:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:41:43 +0200 From: Momesso Andrea To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection Message-ID: <20081021154139.GA5935@revolver> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <49bf44f10810210815s5169087bt3132569b5e9a8d56@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10810210815s5169087bt3132569b5e9a8d56@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 342bb588-cd31-43b7-861d-f003e5f715b0 X-Archives-Hash: 3a47642ad17d852453ffad8c0a3f4af8 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)