On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 09:28, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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).
Yep, thats what i meant actually. Most users have it setup to check often enough that the connection never times out, so sending a noop isn't required. Its always those 1% of users that require the extra 10% of code tho. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
