Re: [Evolution] IMAP Connections ...

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

This supports what notzed said, he didn't necessarily mean checking it
manually. auto-check works too.

Jeff

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 19:25, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 10:05, Not Zed wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 01:17, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> >
> > > I guess what I meant was: shouldn't we still be sending NOOPs, but with
> > > new, non-buggy code?
> >
> > [..] for *most* users, just checking their mail every
> > now and then works.
>
> I object : from observation of about a hundred users (20% power users /
> 80% peons) I can say that most of them have their client configured to
> check mail about once every one to fifteen minutes. Such short times
> between POP or IMAP sessions may seem abusive, but that's the actual
> practice. And visual checking of the inbox by the user is
> quasi-permanent for about two third of the users : their desktop
> actually revolves around their MUA (Outlook in 90% of the cases, sadly).
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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