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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] mail problems..
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Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:58:37 -0400
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> 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