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 1KsPHP-0003N5-Hg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:00:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD192E04D5; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE67AE04D5 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 755E0182268 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:00:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:00:41 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: zWaLngNYKS03IR/WKStNUXStw7kbxs3dUDFfQS9BDQcs 1224626440 Received: from localhost (c-67-164-174-106.hsd1.co.comcast.net [67.164.174.106]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BAF2B2030A for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:00:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:26:55 -0600 From: "John J. Foster" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection Message-ID: <20081021202655.GA3227@crow.localdomain> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Representing the Mambo User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: 7a921457-0470-4179-a736-0315e7ae1c37 X-Archives-Hash: 0614c5973f9a3ea87b0ba31f784384b4 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-21, Grant wrote: >=20 > > 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 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 --=20 Reputation's changeable. Situation's tolerable. But Baby you're adorable. Handle me with Care. --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj+Ow8ACgkQ4FEnevDNLQ7ycgCgpCabbFJtIiGSQs3STFev8PgX OwAAnRx41i8IoCOm4JkQ0sXW/OJRk+X6 =cIoS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--