On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:40 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > Am Montag, den 10.01.2011, 06:32 -0500 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: > > > Currently, it's connected to Gmail via IMAP+. > > There is no reason to check-for-new-messages if you are using IMAP+ with > > IDLE enabled. That is the *point* of IDLE; the server notifies the > > client of changes; the client does not need to poll the server. > If that is the case and if there is still an option available in the UI > of the IMAP+ account settings, I'd call that a UI bug. > Please file a ticket in bugzilla.gnome.org against Evolution.
I don't think so. If you look at the IDLE option it says "(if supported)". Some server's don't support IDLE, so the user may want to still poll [although at a *SANE* interval, *NOT* every minute]. Also IDLE only is effective if the connection stays up [as it should, for at least 30 minutes]. If the server or client closes the connection [1] then IDLE can't work. The same is true if the network is unreliable [like a cellular connection] and the connection gets dropped. So setting the check-for-new mail to an interval like every-60-minutes while having IDLE enabled makes sense. IDLE works well [when supported] and is very efficient, but the occasional poll is still required in most cases. [1] GMail used to do this a *lot* - GMail is *not* a real IMAP provider - maybe they've fixed this - I don't know or care. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
