From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich =?ISO-8859-1?Q?F=FCrst?= Subject: Re: accessing email via POP3 Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 23:13:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20041201231323.07b2341d@sarge> References: <20041201161911.12f40c9c@sarge> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:19:23 +0100 (CET) "J." wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Ulrich F=FCrst wrote: >=20 > > On 30 Nov 2004 15:54:46 EST > > Karthik.Vishwanath.Adv03@Alum.Dartmouth.ORG(Karthik Vishwanath > > Adv03) wrote: > > > My .fetchmailrc > > > looks like this:=20 > > > --------- > > > set daemon 10 > > it's seconds you're giving as an argument. So that is: "poll every > > 10 seconds" >=20 > 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.=20 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs