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

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

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.

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