On 13Feb2022 12:58, c. marlow fedora@cwm030.com wrote:
How do you do that? When I tried IMAP, on this sat dish connection, here in Claws, Claws slowly loaded the whole inbox and displayed everything in the inbox.
Ah, satellite land. Me too! >600ms ping times, best case (for geostationary). However, throughput can be ok, you just need to drive it well. That's what drove me to write my pop3 tool - things like ftechmail and getmail do synchronous fetch/delete steps per message. My tool stremas the fetches and also the deletes. Full speed throughput after the login step. Even over a 4G link it is far faster than getmail.
And every time I switched folders it took it a min to display everything in that folder.
The downside of serverside email, writ large. This is one of the reasons I like my email local. My filing system forwards "important" things to a distinct mailbox for my phone to access if I want an "in the cloud" copy.
Cheers, Cameron Simpson cs@cskk.id.au