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.
Sorry, but I think, here you are wrong. Good IMAP-Clients don’t download the attachments without your interaction (at least you can configure them in such a way). So the reading of the mails should be fast in both ways. But if you wish to open an attachment, IMAP is better than using SSH and local spool. With IMAP you only download the attachment, and then the local application will deal with it. With SSH and local spool you must start the application remote.
Shade and sweet water!
Stephan
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