Re: [Evolution] IMAP Connections ...

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 09:28, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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).

Yep, thats what i meant actually.  Most users have it setup to check
often enough that the connection never times out, so sending a noop
isn't required.

Its always those 1% of users that require the extra 10% of code tho.