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Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
From: Richard Miller <miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk>
From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 10:21:09 +0100
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> It downloads every time you start it, but it does not delete them,
> and if you leave it running, then it will dial out periodically
> to check for new messages but not redownload the old ones.

By default, "periodically" means every 60 seconds, which is not a very
good choice if you have a dial-up connection or a busy mail server (or
both).  You can change this to N seconds by writing to /mail/fs/mbox/ctl
the (undocumented?) control message 'refresh N'.