On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday, September 25 at 04:26 PM, quoth Ravi Uday: >>I dont ahve $imap_keepalive set. >>So you want me to have this : >> >>$timeout=15 >>$imap_keepalive=10 > > That's awfully small. You can make them bigger (e.g. timeout=300, > imap_keepalive=60, or even larger). I know the man page makes it sound > like timeout really needs to be extra small, but don't sweat it. The > default is 600, and you generally don't really need it anywhere near > as small as 15. Think about that: that's potentially checking your > email every 15 seconds. Depending on the number of mailboxes you have
Well 600 is damn big, check your emails every 10mins !! How did you(they) arrive at this number ? Outlook does it every 20 secs or lesser. And its better to get your mails fast then wait for 10mins.. Since I use mutt in a corporate n/w, it doesnt matter if its 10secs/20secs. Ravi > and the latency of your connection, it could easily take longer than > that to complete a check for mail! I know mail admins that get grumpy > when people check their email even every 5 minutes, due to all the > network traffic they generate. When you're checking a file on disk, > well, you can check that pretty dang often without a performance > effect. But over the network? You may be causing your own problem by > having such small timeouts. > > Generally, I would say: stick with the default values unless you have > a reason to change them (the defaults weren't chosen by morons). > Chances are, you can probably leave $timeout at 600. Give the defaults > a try, and go from there. > > ~Kyle > - -- > What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned > me. Now they are content with burning my books. > -- Sigmund Freud > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjcXo4ACgkQBkIOoMqOI16qcQCeOhB3O9JjRDtJDuA96+KFcWmb > 2KcAoM5bQBTBZXtSSC4s4DeCduvRF2vV > =rK7o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >