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 1KsJhs-0001hm-N1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:03:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 967B8E036A; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice03.Princeton.EDU [128.112.131.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B91E036A for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:03:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.148]) by Princeton.EDU (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9LG3bq6007261 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver2.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m9LG3Wci028655 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DF24C716A1; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:03:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:03:56 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection Message-ID: <20081021160356.GA26955@princeton.edu> 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: 4aa125ee-bc5b-432e-8cce-1f09efdf9c96 X-Archives-Hash: 6124b9977cf1a88245e3c1d34d830bcd On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: > 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? Sorry, I don't quite understand your setup: Are you: a) Running a remote desktop / X over ssh type scenario where you run Thunderbird from a server on your client over a slow internet connection? If so, then certainly using a text-based client like Mutt will help. b) Reading mail that is stored remotedly on a local computer? via IMAP? In this case I cannot say, not having used Thunderbird or squirrelmail. This really depends on how efficiently the individual clients are coded, and the best way to find out is to just try them out and see if you get an improvement. Theoretically the limit imposed on the mail clients by your slow internet connection should be the same. c) doing something else completely? Can you explain what you mean by Thunderbird "loading"? Loading what? The program itself? Or a particular e-mail? As it stands, your e-mail really doesn't give us much information about what your setup is and what you would like to improve. One thing that I just thought of: often it maybe faster (if you have the access) to ssh into the mail server and run mutt there compared to using IMAP. Especially with e-mails with attached pictures and HTML mark-up: if you parse those on the server with lynx and send only the text through the ssh, it will often be faster than downloading the entire mail and parsing it locally. Regards, W -- If you buy the paperback version of Maxwell's _Treatise_, on the cover, this diagram is drawn... worked out in the 1870's, without a pocket calculator... ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 683 days, 14:34