Spinal
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I need some technical advice that is beyond my level of knowledge... I need a real email geek!
This is the scenario:
I'm going to be in the desert... connecting through a 9600bps connection... (yes, old-school - but I can't afford a bgan terminal). I will want to send emails... but I'm not sure I want to receive them!
At $1.50 per minute of connection, I'm looking at $10 to transfer the 300kb a normal send/receive transfers in my outlook (multiple accounts and A LOT of spam)
So, I'm thinking... lets squeeze out as much as I can... IMAP or POP? how much overhead does each have? is there a way to force outlook to send... but not receive? or maybe receive only the headers until I tell it to download a specific email?
My other idea was create a simple HTML form - nothing except for a text box, an upload box and a submit button... email goes into text box, any potential picture goes into upload box and then submit... the advantage of this is I can cache the page, so the only data is the transmit... I think?
Any ideas?
M.
This is the scenario:
I'm going to be in the desert... connecting through a 9600bps connection... (yes, old-school - but I can't afford a bgan terminal). I will want to send emails... but I'm not sure I want to receive them!
At $1.50 per minute of connection, I'm looking at $10 to transfer the 300kb a normal send/receive transfers in my outlook (multiple accounts and A LOT of spam)
So, I'm thinking... lets squeeze out as much as I can... IMAP or POP? how much overhead does each have? is there a way to force outlook to send... but not receive? or maybe receive only the headers until I tell it to download a specific email?
My other idea was create a simple HTML form - nothing except for a text box, an upload box and a submit button... email goes into text box, any potential picture goes into upload box and then submit... the advantage of this is I can cache the page, so the only data is the transmit... I think?
Any ideas?
M.