From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <70673503f4b35d1034841136aab03874@snellwilcox.com> From: steve.simon@snellwilcox.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems.. In-Reply-To: <2937630799@snellwilcox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-ifsbdsfjkeuvjfevrylkehlmuw" Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 09:46:35 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dd4a3f2e-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-ifsbdsfjkeuvjfevrylkehlmuw Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --upas-ifsbdsfjkeuvjfevrylkehlmuw Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 02:58:37 +0100 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu bcc: "Steve Simon" From: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Sender: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Importance: normal Priority: normal Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems.. Message-Id: <2937630799@snellwilcox.com> X-MIME-Engine: v0.90 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Id: <2937630799-1@snellwilcox.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > 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 --upas-ifsbdsfjkeuvjfevrylkehlmuw--