This supports what notzed said, he didn't necessarily mean checking it manually. auto-check works too.
Jeff On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 19:25, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 10:05, Not Zed wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 01:17, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > > > > I guess what I meant was: shouldn't we still be sending NOOPs, but with > > > new, non-buggy code? > > > > [..] for *most* users, just checking their mail every > > now and then works. > > I object : from observation of about a hundred users (20% power users / > 80% peons) I can say that most of them have their client configured to > check mail about once every one to fifteen minutes. Such short times > between POP or IMAP sessions may seem abusive, but that's the actual > practice. And visual checking of the inbox by the user is > quasi-permanent for about two third of the users : their desktop > actually revolves around their MUA (Outlook in 90% of the cases, sadly). -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
