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

[Michelle K. <lin...@fr...>]

Am 2006-07-12 00:37:51, schrieb Uli Zappe:
> 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.

Even if my ISP allow me to do it, <frrenet.de> is hosting arround
5 million mailboxes on around 90 Servers, which mean, 55.000
mailboxes per <mboxXX.freenet.de>.  If all peoples would use
such intervall, no server will handle this load...

Since I have over 600 Mailboxes to poll, located on around 40 mbox-
server I poll it only serial and then only all 10 minutes which is
enough.

Many of those mailboxes must be processed independatly from a MUA,
so changing a MUA to use IMAP over the internet does not work.

(I have my own local Courier running and ALL mails need preprocessing)


Greetings
    Michelle Konzack


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