[MlMt] Increase polling of specific subfolders?

leo mailmate at halloleo.hailmail.net
Sat Apr 27 21:05:41 EDT 2024


Super cool.

“Connected” seems to work with my IMAP host (Fastmail).

Thanks,
Leo

On 27 Apr 2024, at 0:35, Bill Cole wrote:

> 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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