Re: what is the benefit of imap?
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.
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Joost Kremers
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