[MlMt] Increase polling of specific subfolders?

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Fri Apr 26 10:35:05 EDT 2024


On 2024-04-26 at 05:11:38 UTC-0400 (Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:11:38 +1000)
leo <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> Hello fellow MailMaters
>
> Is there a way to increase the pooling of a IMAP subfolder from 5 
> minutes to, say, 1 min or 30 sec?

No, but you can set a mailbox to "Connected" which uses the IMAP IDLE 
commmand to stay online with a mailbox selected so that new messages are 
notified immediately.

How well that works is server-dependent. Some IMAP servers are very slow 
with 'live' notifications on idle.




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