On Mar 27, Simon White [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > 26-Mar-02 at 11:33, Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > if you have shell access on your mail machine, and it's on a good > > connection, i'd just run mutt on the machine itself. ... > Secondly, on a dialup link, it's too slow if you SSH somewhere and you > have to /compose/ mail. For moving around the screen, even if you're good > with vim (or whatever you set $THE_ONE_TRUE_EDITOR to) is not responsive > enough. And if you have a connection that is fast enough not to notice > that, you can probably download mail fast anyway. I SSH to my workstation > from a fixed IP authenticated dialup connection at home and it's too slow > to compose mail, although reading mail is quicker with Mutt than PINE > running locally and just fetching mail from the server. This is largely > due to the pager allowing faster browsing of mail.
Weird. I used to do this all the time before I had DSL, and it was never a problem. And the mail server I was connecting to was a 486 w/12M of RAM. The initial connection was slow, but after that it was fine. Are you using SSH compression? It helps a lot.
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