Re: accessing email via POP3

Ulrich Fürst
2004-12-01T22:13:23Z

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