Re: [Evolution] IMAP Connections ...

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

There's a checkbox to only check INBOX for auto-check...

Jeff

On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 18:51, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> I also agree.  I posted something like this some weeks ago.  I use evo
> on both a local account and a remote imap one through a zebedee tunnel. 
> The auto check keeps timing out on the delay it takes for the tunnel to
> reestablish, or gets tied up when the bandwidth (modem connection) is
> very tight.  The no-op silently skips past problems like that.
>
> I eventually turned off auto-check as its creates more problems than it
> solved.  A suggestion for large, remote mail collections would be to
> create a second account for the same mailbox, holding only the
> subfolders (subscribe to folders), whilst the account with autocheck
> could have only the inbox.
>
> Not everyone has the luxury of cheap, fast and low response time
> connections ...
>
> BillK
>
> On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 03:49, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-07-05 at 14:18, Dan Winship wrote:
> > > > Since you can configure your IMAP account to auto-send-receive every X
> > > > minutes, there's no reason you even need the auto-10-minute-NOOP anyway,
> > > > just configure it to auto-send-receive every 10 minutes instead. This is
> > > > what I do and rarely if ever seem to have the disconnected problem.
> > >
> > > That's just wrong. You should not need to set an option to get correct
> > > behavior. If auto-send-receive is going to be mandatory for IMAP, then
> > > it shouldn't be possible to turn if off.
> >
> > I agree.  Is there no chance at all that we can get the NOOP back?
> >
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