[CS-FSLUG] IMAP email software
Jonathan E. Brickman
jeb at joshuacorps.org
Tue Jan 6 19:08:54 CST 2009
l4c at thelinuxlink.net wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Jonathan E. Brickman wrote:
>
>> as the first step. Yecch. I also tried alpine again, and remembered
>> why IMAP was originally known as a terribly resource-heavy protocol
>> originally: alpine, like pine, doesn't cache anything, and
>> (shockingly) is slower today on my broadband than pine was in 1994
>> over my prized 28.8 with Slackware.
>
> Curious.. I switch between Thunderbird and Alpine, but mostly use
> Alpine these days because it's FASTER! I use it for 5 IMAPed email
> accounts (screen+alpine is a thing of beauty) some of which generate
> several hundred emails per day. I never see any lag or poor
> performance there at all (well, unless my mail server is down for some
> reason). Perhaps it's a version thing? I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with:
>
Are you using an IMAP server on your LAN, or an ISP's IMAP server? If
so, what is your ISP??? :-)
J.E.B.
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