Hello Ben, >So why not set up a cron job to poll your mail every ten minutes, or >something reasonable? Is there a good reason why its execution must be >tied directly to IMAP polls?
what's reasonable depends on the context. ;) When I'm offline, once a day (or not at all ;-)) is quite reasonable. For normal operation ten minutes is ok for my main account (that's actually what I use now ...). For my other accounts an hour is enough. But once in a while I exchange mails "live" with someone. Then I don't want any delay at all. I still use a simple mail client and poll my accounts directly and I can do all this. The major problem with my current setup is that I can use only one computer for mail or have to do very careful copying. That's why I want my own local IMAP server for consistent mail available on all my computers. Now consider the following situation: I'm on the phone with someone and he tells me that he sent me an email with some data to talk about. If I can't poll the mail manually we may have to wait maybe 10 minutes until it is fetched automatically. What should I tell him? "Sorry, I can't fetch my mail manually, I'll call you back in 10 minutes or we could discuss the weather while we're waiting ..." sounds pretty lame. 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
