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E-mail slow to download

Jun 21, 2005 12:40AM PDT

Since going to Verizon DSL 3.0/768 E-mail is slow to download in OE 6. Connection speeds to 2.9 megabits per second.
Windows 98SE
AMD Athlon 800mHz
384 Megabytes SDRAM

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Email servers clogged to the max.
Jun 21, 2005 12:45AM PDT

My ISP went from 1 email server to 10 or more to handle the load.

It's still fairly slow compared to other transfers. When you find a fix for spam, remember to tell everyone about it.

Bob

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Slow e-mail download
Jun 22, 2005 9:19AM PDT

Verizon online support claims that Verizon has more than enough servers to handle the e-mail load and if that was a problem IE would be slow also.

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I'm on Verizon DSL and...
Jun 22, 2005 10:24AM PDT

Email downloads are a fraction of what they were 2 years ago.

They fib.

Bob