Re: [Evolution] dynamic auto-fetch frequency?
You could simple click 'get mail' more often. On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 14:26, Ben FrantzDale wrote: Here's an idea. If people like it I'll put it into bugzilla. Motivation: My mail volume is irregular. When a mailing list dives into a busy thread, I can get a message a minute or more. Other times (like at 4AM) I get a message an hour. When traffic is high I find myself hitting send/recieve to see if there's new mail. Solution: Rather than having one frequency at which to check mail (eg: every 10 minutes), give evolution a lower and upper bound on mail-check frequency. Once evolution has downloaded mail, calculate the current message frequency: X messages per minute. Then check mail again in min(upper_bound,max(C*X, lower_bound)), where C is some constant. This would mean you'd predict to get C messages on the next check. The lower_bound would keep you from hammering your mail server and the upper bound would prevent it from going hours without checking. Disadvantage: It would make the dialog to control mail fetching frequency more complex. What do you think? Is this crazy or a decent idea? --Ben ___ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
Re: [Evolution] dynamic auto-fetch frequency?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 09:28:10PM +0930, Not Zed wrote: You could simple click 'get mail' more often. Or he could setup cron to run fetchmail more often at different parts of the day. I've done exactly that for the reasons described. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]%3E OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/ Linux. The choice of a GNU generation http://www.linux.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0x6C94239D iD8DBQE8wB39pCpg3WyUI50RArgaAKC30YoHPd0OTHbeDiUqwzAhMXfF9QCff12Y R20/1F3lzJkh2cXMX5ptXcY= =bFnX -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
[Evolution] dynamic auto-fetch frequency?
Here's an idea. If people like it I'll put it into bugzilla. Motivation: My mail volume is irregular. When a mailing list dives into a busy thread, I can get a message a minute or more. Other times (like at 4AM) I get a message an hour. When traffic is high I find myself hitting send/recieve to see if there's new mail. Solution: Rather than having one frequency at which to check mail (eg: every 10 minutes), give evolution a lower and upper bound on mail-check frequency. Once evolution has downloaded mail, calculate the current message frequency: X messages per minute. Then check mail again in min(upper_bound,max(C*X, lower_bound)), where C is some constant. This would mean you'd predict to get C messages on the next check. The lower_bound would keep you from hammering your mail server and the upper bound would prevent it from going hours without checking. Disadvantage: It would make the dialog to control mail fetching frequency more complex. What do you think? Is this crazy or a decent idea? --Ben signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
