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
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