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 1KsJNW-0008Bm-Em for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E3B8E03E1; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F82CE03E1 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADA4764214 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.791 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.791 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.808, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NPhmJkzFO+Qi for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC3C06417D for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KsJN8-0000vG-JC for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:14 +0000 Received: from c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([76.17.159.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:14 +0000 Received: from grante by c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: fb6c2281-040e-4b29-8de9-1ab7919983b6 X-Archives-Hash: ae5e3226a205d568059d41275c3ae06d On 2008-10-21, 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? 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. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ! I'm in a very at clever and adorable INSANE visi.com ASYLUM!!