[fetchmail-users] reasonable poll intervals (was: Re: Rotating the log file)

[Uli Z. <ul...@ri...>]

Am 11.07.2006 um 11:37 schrieb Matthias Andree:

> checking new mail every 3 minutes [is] abusive

Oooops!?! How so? I use 30 seconds as poll interval. Admittedly, most  
of the people I know that use fetchmail use something between 60 and  
120 seconds, but personally I don't know anyone who would use an  
interval longer than 120 seconds.

> (if you need real-time delivery, either use IMAP with IDLE or SMTP  
> or UUCP over TCP/IP

As far as I can see, none of these protocols is a functionally  
identical replacement for fetchmail. I don't know IMAP more closely,  
but to update the local mail client with regard to new emails, I  
figure some constant polling must go on, too. Besides, few ISPs  
support IMAP. Hardly any ISP supports SMTP or UUCP, and they don't  
work well with connections that are not always on.

             Bye
                     Uli
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