<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Karl F. Larsen <<a href="mailto:klarsen1@gmail.com">klarsen1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> For about a year I have been using IMAP to get my email. It works fine for the most part but two problems crop up. The first seems always to be in the early morning in New Mexico, and getting a message from this list will take more than a minute. Later it clears up and the typical message takes 2 seconds to display. The second problem occurs when a friend sends me email with a big attachment, say 10MB. I click to read the email and it takes minutes until the message can be read. It is clear that the attachment came with the email to my computer. But when I click to store the attachment, it d/l the attachment again! I wonder if these problems might be solved by using pop3 instead of IMAP? 73 Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 <a href="http://counter.li.org" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org</a>. Key ID = 3951B48D </blockquote><div> As for the first problem, I don't have a good solution, perhaps your ISP has a lot of traffic that time of morning? For the second problem, unless you have offline folders turned on (_not_ the default) if the attachment is not inline, it won't be downloaded until you click it, just the message headers and body. See here for more info: <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Entire_message_fetched_when_opening_a_IMAP_message">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Entire_message_fetched_when_opening_a_IMAP_message</a> Preston </div></div>