On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 09:06:14AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > Are they on your LAN? Using IMAP across the internet (even with a > good ADSL connection) can never really be as quick as a local mbox > spool, especially if you're dealing with attachments and such. Think > about it - a 1Mbyte attachment is going to take some seconds to pull > across even a 2 or 3Mb/s ADSL link whereas it's going to be near > instantanous from a local file.
true, but when i get attachments, i usually save them immediately to my home dir, which is sync'ed with a usb drive that i carry around (almost) everywhere i go... certainly the inconvenience of waiting a few secs for an attachment to download doesn't weigh up to the convenience of accessing my mail boxes from anywhere i like. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments
