> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 10:46:13 -0700
> From: "foodog" <foodog@qwest.net>
> To: "plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Subject: Looking for a good IMAP email client
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> 
> I've been using Netscape-communicator for email and generally like it,
> except for accessing work email from home.  I connect to work using "ssh
> -X -C myhost".  Netscape is _really_ slow through an ssh tunnel, even if
> I've resized it to a tiny window.
> 
> Xcalc takes 3 or 4 seconds to show up; Netscape takes about a full
> minute.  Yuck.  Any suggestions, especially ones that are easy, and can
> be configured to do use an LDAP address book?  I'm using Redhat 7.2 and
> KDE if that's relevant.  Oh yeah - having a spell-checker would also be
> most handy :-)
> TIA,
> 
> Steve

Sounds like you're running X over the ssh tunnel rather than running
netscape on your local machine and running imap thru the tunnel.  X over
dial-up will be slow for any graphical stuff.  I run netscape as an imap
email client to my home mail server thru stunnel.  I encrypt both smtp
and imap with the following commands on the home email server:

/usr/local/sbin/stunnel -d simap -r imap
/usr/local/sbin/stunnel -d ssmtp -r smtp -n smtp

Speed is fine, even when using Juno or NetZero.

-Doug