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From: steve.simon@snellwilcox.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70673503f4b35d1034841136aab03874@snellwilcox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2937630799@snellwilcox.com>

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I used to scan POP every 45 secs but got shouted at by the TI dep.
I was asked to scan no more than every 5 mins - thought our POP3
server is a CCmail database so enough said (sigh)

-Steve

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From: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:58:37 +0100
Message-ID: <2937630799@snellwilcox.com>

> 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.

Russ

       reply	other threads:[~2003-06-26  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2937630799@snellwilcox.com>
2003-06-26  8:46 ` steve.simon [this message]
2003-06-26 11:43 Lucio De Re
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-06-24 14:41 Apurva Mehta
2003-06-24 15:24 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-24 16:34   ` Apurva Mehta
2003-06-25  0:13     ` Russ Cox
2003-06-25  9:21       ` Richard Miller, miller
2003-06-26  1:58         ` Russ Cox
2003-06-26  2:21           ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-26  2:30             ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26  2:36               ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-26  2:44                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26  3:07                   ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-26  3:13                     ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26  3:21                       ` Dan Cross
2003-06-26  3:32                         ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26  3:35                           ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-26  3:41                             ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26  4:03                               ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-26  5:15                           ` okamoto
2003-06-26 10:36                             ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26  3:53                       ` Scott Schwartz
2003-06-26 11:12                         ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26 13:17                           ` matt
2003-06-26 13:33                             ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26 14:23                               ` matt
2003-06-26 14:35                                 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-26 15:49                                 ` David Presotto
2003-06-26  8:29           ` Richard Miller, miller
2003-06-25 10:49       ` Apurva Mehta
2003-06-25  0:16 ` Russ Cox
2003-06-25 10:49   ` Apurva Mehta

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