Re: [IMail Forum] email check limits

[Matt]

Rod, I wasn't quite joking, though I don't have a need to do this at the present.  If my servers were ever overburdened and I was seeking to steal back some threads, I might move forward on this.  It's my opinion that I should strive to make E-mail as clean, reliable and real-time as possible, and limiting people to no more than once every 5 minutes would defeat that.  Instead of enforcing this, I would rather just simply communicate best practices and suggest that once every 5 minutes is optimal.  If I were a phone company, I wouldn't tell my subscribers to not make phone calls more than once a minute, so as long as my servers can keep up without issue, I'll allow the power users to do this when they want to.  Personally, I have my accounts set to once a minute, and I find that to be useful for my needs.  I may change my tune entirely if I was to ever experience issues. Matt Rod Dorman wrote: On Tuesday, February 21, 2006, 18:02:55, Matt wrote: Write a log analyzer app and send them a message every time they check less than your required minimum :) You might have been joking but that's exactly what I do. I've forgotten who I stole the original from but heres the canned text that I send 'em. Sorry to pester you but in our logs I see that you logon to check your e-mail more frequently than every five minutes which generates hundreds of extra log file lines each day and makes it harder to read the logs when we are trying to research a problem. Logging in so often also causes the server to work a little harder than it needs to degrading service for everyone else on the server. If everyone did it, it would be pretty noticeable. Even assuming you got an e-mail every minute you wouldn't have time to read it and respond before the next check would be downloading more. It would make our work easier and the server run much more efficiently if you would please logon every 5 minutes at a minimum and 10 or more would be way better yet.