Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assistly@gmail.com"
I received once...
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Indulekha <indulekha@theunworthy.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:49:00AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Lu, 30 apr 12, 20:11:36, Indulekha wrote:
>> >
>> > Ok, so I subscribed the "normal" way, and I'll just periodically purge the
>> > mails to avoid waiting for 857,000 emails to load over dialup.
>>
>> Not sure what you mean, but just about every mail retriever that I know
>> of will not re-download mail unless told so.
>>
>> In order to save bandwidth you may want to use IMAP + downloading
>> headers only ;)
>>
>
> That *is* what I do, as I said I'm stuck using an absurdly slow dial up
> connection. In this part of the country our phone lines are so bad my
> connection speed hovers between 1.5 and 5.9 kbps (no, not a typo)!
> If you've never experienced that, you probably wouldn't understand...
> Just opening an imap mailbox with more than a few hundred messages in
> it (with header caching) can take several minutes.
> It's the only real downside to living in this extremely rural area.
>
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