My Reply follows quote. On 23/06/2003 10:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >On 06/23/2003 12:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>Thanks, but for AOL accounts, Emailer rejects anything less than 10 >>>minute intervals. Hence my original question... ;-) >>--------- >>Not in my Emailer. V2.03. > >Well, I'd like to know what you're doing differently. When I open Setup >--> Schedules and select an AOL schedule, the "Frequency" pop-up menu >shows intervals from 1 minute to 4 hours, and I can select "2 Minutes", >but clicking Save displays this message: > >"The schedule could not be saved because you may not schedule an AOL >account to a repeating connection that connects more frequently than once >every 10 minutes." > >I assume that part of Fog City's original agreement that allowed them to >tap into the AOL mail protocol was a promise to limit it to every 10 >minutes or longer, perhaps back in the days when AOL was desperately >short of modem lines and didn't want them tied up every minute or two. > >Anyway, any suggestions for hacking around the interval restrictions >would be welcome. ----------- Hmmm. I sit corrected. I just checked the setup, not trying to save any changes to schedules I don't use much. (I use a scheduled connection of twice an hour, not a timed connection.) You're right, the WARNING pops up when you try to save.
I suspect you are right about the "agreement" between Claris and AOL. Probably the same reasoning that generates the random connect times (in seconds) each time you open Emailer. Perhaps they "assumed" that so many folks would use Emailer to connect to AOL and get mail that their servers would be swamped on "even hours" or by frequent connections. Though, at the time most folks were likely on modems and would have a real challenge making connections via dial-up at intervals of less than 5 minutes. Ken ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
