On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm running a pop3 server which fetches mail from my Corp Exchange > acc into Linux using fetchmail. This in itself isn't a POP3 server I should think. You're just running fetchmail in daemon mode to grab stuff from exchange into your account on the Linux box. > Then I'm getting my emails from the LInux server to my desktop using > outlook. (yah.. I had to use M$ at work) The thing here is, it's > pretty darn slow. Overnight, mails from this list gets to like 100+ > and pulling it via pop3 will take like 1 hour! (for under 1 MB of > mail!) I'm not sure what's slowing things up. 1 hour for POP3 based e-mail message downloads? Is your link really slow or something? Even on dialup, and the sheer amount of e-mails I get, I POP all my mail and it doesn't take that long (of course, I'm not usually on dialup, but getting in like 4-5megs of mail per POP for all different accounts doesn't take longer than 15 minutes? Probably less...) > Hence, thinking maybe IMAP would help. Is IMAP the type where > you could Browse & read emails from the server and _not_ DL it > to the local machine? BUt if wanted, I could just Drag & Drop?? Somewhat. It just grabs headers basically. > Maybe that would be quicker. Doubtful... Why your POP3 gets are so slow is a wonder though. -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/
