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road-runner
Oct 28, 2016Explorer III
Campfire Time wrote:I don't know if it takes more bandwidth to download to a client or not. I have a primary email using a client, and a secondary email using Yahoo, and I can say time-wise, the messages download to the client a lot faster than they display on Yahoo. When on the road with a low bandwidth connection, it takes more data just to bring up the Yahoo mail page than to download all the mail I typically receive in a day. I think the client-based email presents a lower risk of being hacked into, and I sometimes search for things through the whole database going 15+ years back. When I'm on the road, I take a backup of the whole database on a flash drive, accessible without a live connection, and not hampered by a slow connection. So I think there's a lot of points in favor of using client-based email, and if somebody else is better served with a web interface, that's perfectly ok!
It takes more bandwidth to download to a local client than doing while on the Internet. And there doesn't seem to be much point to doing it offline. Unless one has such a large volume of email, and then I could only see that for a business.
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