From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4310 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Rottmann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: No smarter way than fetching every 5min ? Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:10:17 GMT Organization: Customers chello Austria Message-ID: <87acrpw9az.fsf@ivanova.rotty.yi.org> References: <87wtutv4ye.fsf@fleuret.homeunix.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670267 22723 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:17:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:17:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:33:34 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!feed.news.tiscali.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.chello.at.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3MzqhLfhvXyDn/7rPCdPe7USlaM= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.109.53.157 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.chello.at Original-X-Trace: news.chello.at 1104851417 80.109.53.157 (Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:10:17 MET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 16:10:17 MET Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4451 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4451 Tue Jan 17 17:33:34 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4310 Archived-At: Francis Litterio writes: > François Fleuret wrote: > >> But I suddenly start to wonder ... There is no smarter way to do that >> ? Like for instance fetchmail keeping a live connection to the server >> and getting a notice when new mail arrives ? I have the feeling it has >> to be possible ... > > I suspect that configuring fetchmail to check for mail every 30 seconds > would appear very similar to such a "server push" mechanism. > Well, don't know if your ISP/mail hoster will be delighted if every user does this ;) Cheers, Rotty -- Andreas Rottmann | Rotty@ICQ | 118634484@ICQ | a.rottmann@gmx.at http://yi.org/rotty | GnuPG Key: http://yi.org/rotty/gpg.asc Fingerprint | DFB4 4EB4 78A4 5EEE 6219 F228 F92F CFC5 01FD 5B62 Latein ist das humanoide Äquivalent zu Fortran. -- Alexander Bartolich in at.linux