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[Jonathan E. Brickman]

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.