Re: [Evolution] dynamic auto-fetch frequency?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

You could simple click 'get mail' more often.


On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 14:26, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> Here's an idea. If people like it I'll put it into bugzilla.
>
> Motivation:
> My mail volume is irregular. When a mailing list dives into a busy
> thread, I can get a message a minute or more. Other times (like at 4AM)
> I get a message an hour. When traffic is high I find myself hitting
> send/recieve to see if there's new mail.
>
> Solution:
> Rather than having one frequency at which to check mail (eg: every 10
> minutes), give evolution a lower and upper bound on mail-check
> frequency. Once evolution has downloaded mail, calculate the current
> message frequency: X messages per minute. Then check mail again in
> min(upper_bound,max(C*X, lower_bound)), where C is some constant. This
> would mean you'd predict to get C messages on the next check. The
> lower_bound would keep you from hammering your mail server and the upper
> bound would prevent it from going hours without checking.
>
> Disadvantage:
> It would make the dialog to control mail fetching frequency more
> complex.
>
> What do you think? Is this crazy or a decent idea?
>
> --Ben