Ok..sounds like IDLE extension is the way to go. Let me see how to make that extension. Thanks Kyle
- Ravi On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday, September 26 at 03:23 PM, quoth Ravi Uday: >>> I also just loaded up my copy of VirtualBox to check out Microsoft >>> Outlook 2000 myself. The default setting for new accounts is to check >>> for new messages every 10 minutes, and it's *impossible* to change >>> that setting to less than 1 minute (you can see a screen shot of the >> >> Well I am not mistaken. I dont know which version you are using or looked at: >> Here is mine : MS Office Outlook 2003 (11.8...) SP3 >> >> And in there I can clearly set it at 1 minute. >> (Goto : Tools->Send/Receive --> Send-Receive-Settings --> Define >> Send/Receive groups) >> In there you can see the least allowed is 1 min. > > Which is EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. It's impossible to set it to less than 1 > minute. You said you were configuring your Outlook to check every 20 > seconds, which is technically impossible by your own admission. > >> I also spoke with network-admin and he confirmed its in the order of >> secs. > > 60 seconds is "on the order of secs". > >> Practically, I also asked my colleague to send me a email. And within >> 20-30secs it was there in my Outlook. > > That's got nothing to do with anything. The 20-30 second delay could > easily be how long it takes to deliver email, and Outlook could easily > be using the IMAP IDLE extension (or whatever the equivalent is in the > MAPI protocol), which would mean that the mail client gets notified > the very moment that email arrives. > > Mutt also supports the IDLE extension, and can do the exact same thing > you just observed Outlook do, and mutt can do that even with $timeout > set to 600, because IDLE doesn't rely on the client re-checking for > new email. IDLE *informs* the client of new mail *unasked*. It can be > thought of as a "push" protocol. > > Let me say that again: the IDLE extension means that your client tells > the server "let me know when new mail comes", which is different from > periodically checking for new mail. > >> Well most commonly all your terminals(PCs) will be wired to a VLAN >> operating over a catalyst giga-bit switches. It has the capacity to >> switch packets at x-gigs per secs and we are here talking of kb's of >> mail data. Its negligence IMO. > > <sigh> You didn't read what I wrote. I'm talking about load on the > server, not bandwidth. The fanciness of your network is *irrelevant* > to my point. > > ~Kyle > - -- > They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and > lightning. > -- Clint Eastwood > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjdZdIACgkQBkIOoMqOI17KOQCfaCWjxpk5K+AeZQ+ygREEbNI4 > PRAAnA5Npbg7s0PkHkVtQUaQuYmt6ctv > =8cF0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
