From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <62909f4ae3027e3b5e9f598052103d93@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems.. From: Richard Miller From: miller@hamnavoe.demon.co.uk In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:29:46 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dd423748-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >> 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'. > > Is this too frequent or not frequent enough? I usually do 15 seconds. Too frequent with a dial-up connection - particularly in the UK where you get charged by the minute for every call (even on the local exchange). Too frequent for a server like pop3.demon.co.uk, which at busy times can take two or three minutes just to login and STAT. Anyway, my solution to the notifcation problem, now that I have broadband, is to switch to a provider who can forward mail directly by SMTP. -- Richard