Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

["John J. Foster" <Gentoo-User@festus.festusandsimone.org>]

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On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-10-21, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> 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?
> 
> I've used mutt over a 14Kbps link with latencies in the
> 200-300ms range. You'll need to configure it so that it doesn't
> check for new mail very often, and limit the number of
> mailboxes it's checking for incoming mail.  You'll also want to
> make sure that header caching is enabled.  I think the cache
> supoprt is built by default these days, but you'll need to
> enable it by setting the header_cache configuration variable in
> your .muttrc file so that it points to the file where you want
> the header cache database stored.
> 
I have to 2nd the mutt recommendation. Been using it for years as my
only email client. (Works well with a fast connection, too!)

festus

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