Hello Sam, >Here's a question for you. Your mail client periodically checks for new >mail. Now, a new mail check will not simply be a quick, nearly instantaneous >operation, the server will now has to run an external hook program, and >fetchmail may take quite a bit of time to log on to an external mailbox, and >download new mail, and the IMAP server has to wait until it's done, before >sending a response.
well, one solution would be to just trigger the fetching and do it in the background while the server reports the current state: nothing new or the stuff that came in with the last poll. >So, when your mail client now starts freezing, for 10-15 seconds at a time, >and not responding to your commands, are you going to blame the IMAP server >for this? Of course not. :) But the alternative is to wait until fetchmail does another automatic poll. So I'ld rather have to wait a few seconds for the server to complete the request than sit around idling several minutes, when I know there is an email out there that I want to read asap. And I don't think anybody else would be pleased if I configure fetchmail to poll my remote mail every few seconds, even when I'm sleeping ... ;) Regards, Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
