You could simple click 'get mail' more often.
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 14:26, Ben FrantzDale wrote: > Here's an idea. If people like it I'll put it into bugzilla. > > Motivation: > My mail volume is irregular. When a mailing list dives into a busy > thread, I can get a message a minute or more. Other times (like at 4AM) > I get a message an hour. When traffic is high I find myself hitting > send/recieve to see if there's new mail. > > Solution: > Rather than having one frequency at which to check mail (eg: every 10 > minutes), give evolution a lower and upper bound on mail-check > frequency. Once evolution has downloaded mail, calculate the current > message frequency: X messages per minute. Then check mail again in > min(upper_bound,max(C*X, lower_bound)), where C is some constant. This > would mean you'd predict to get C messages on the next check. The > lower_bound would keep you from hammering your mail server and the upper > bound would prevent it from going hours without checking. > > Disadvantage: > It would make the dialog to control mail fetching frequency more > complex. > > What do you think? Is this crazy or a decent idea? > > --Ben > > _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
