On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:04PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-10-21, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > I have to 2nd the mutt recommendation. Been using it for years as my only email client. (Works well with a fast connection, too!)
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