reading mail

[William Kenworthy]

On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 19:39 +1300, Robin Paulson wrote:
> 2009/2/8 Seth Rothenberg <seth at pachai.net>:
> > I have a funny question.
> > I am going to be travelling,
> > and hopefully will get my FR online somehow....
...
> 
> yep, i get my gmail on the fr, via imap in qtmail on 2008.12
> 
> it's slow as hell, and the connection often times out, but it's
> excellent having my e-mail with me wherever i go, and have the ability
> to read whatever attachments i get sent
> 


by slow - how many emails?  It used to be very slow with a few dozen,
and impossible if you have a large inbox - is this still the case? (I
last tried with an early 2008)

BillK