Topic: POP3 Checking Interval

[David Miles]

Hi,

I've got ym SMe server set up to download email from my ISP's POP3 account using multi-drop mode. Is there a way to get it to check for email every one minute?

Thanks,
Dave.

[Johan]

Dave,

I think if you use the POP3 acces you can't do this every minute becouse if you got mail and it's starts whit downloading it, a new procces will start a get a error mail in your admin mailbox.

I you wan't sure the you can see in the crontab file's in /etc

If you have more then 5-6 pop3 account's in it then you 60 second's are gone.

Goodlock

Johan

[Kelvin]

Johan is right. The problem is, the mail retrieval process is a "dumb" process -- it gets called on cue every x number of minutes irregardless of whether the previous process has finished or not or whether or not another fetchmail process is already running. If you set the interval too low, you will get a lot of notifications about another fetchmail process running ....

I remember while still using Windows based mail servers, some actually will allow an interval of 1 minute but that one minute countdown does not start till the previous mail retrieval finishes or times out due to error(s).


Kelvin

[David Miles]

Thanks Johan and Kelvin.

Yes - what you say makes sense. At present I'm just using a standard Outlook client for POP3 retrieveal and it is set to check every one minute. However, occassionally, it does bomb out because the previous check hasn't completed due to large attachments and/or delays at the ISP end.

Still, it's a good excuse to do it "properly" and go SMTP instead.

Dave.