From: "Ulrich Fürst" <heimwill@compuserve.de>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: accessing email via POP3
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:13:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041201231323.07b2341d@sarge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0412011814230.20676-100000@hestia>
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:19:23 +0100 (CET) "J." <j.reynders@xs4all.nl>
wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ulrich Fürst wrote:
>
> > On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST
> > Karthik.Vishwanath.Adv03@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG(Karthik Vishwanath
> > Adv03) wrote:
> > > My .fetchmailrc
> > > looks like this:
> > > ---------
> > > set daemon 10
> > it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every
> > 10 seconds"
>
> Polling every 10 sec's is rude behaviour towards your
> i.s.p. .. Don't do that.
Yes, I know, I thought that would be clear for the OP by reading.
Btw if you get e.g. a hundred emails while booting that will last
longer than ten seconds even with DSL.
But I've got to admit that I should've writen it. for you can't read my thoughts (I hope ;-) ).
Ulrich
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-01 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-30 20:54 accessing email via POP3 Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
2004-11-30 22:12 ` Ray Olszewski
2004-12-01 15:19 ` Ulrich Fürst
2004-12-01 17:19 ` J.
2004-12-01 22:13 ` Ulrich Fürst [this message]
2004-12-02 1:07 ` Peter
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2004-12-01 16:41 Karthik Vishwanath Adv03
2004-12-02 1:29 ` J.
2004-12-02 0:58 J.
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