According to Viktor Dukhovni via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>: >In any case, modern MUAs deliver mail in the background, and TCP handles >high delay networks just fine, so most users don't feel any impact from >high RTTs to the submission service. It is your IMAP store and >especially any webmail servers that you might consider >replicating/colocating closer to your users.
FWIW, I was at the ICANN meeting in central Africa a week ago, with ping times to my server in New York in the 300-400ms range. I think there was soms strange routing that sent the packets one way via Europe and the other way via South Africa and Brazil. Nonetheless, sending mail through a tunnel back to the US worked just fine. Perhaps it took an extra second or two for the "sending" indicator to turn off but who cares. IMAP access was perceptibly slower but even that remained quite usable since IMAP can pipeline commands and responses. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
