Re: Unexpected network error
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thursday, September 25 at 04:26 PM, quoth Ravi Uday:
>>I dont ahve $imap_keepalive set.
>>So you want me to have this :
>>
>>$timeout=15
>>$imap_keepalive=10
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> That's awfully small. You can make them bigger (e.g. timeout=300,
> imap_keepalive=60, or even larger). I know the man page makes it sound
> like timeout really needs to be extra small, but don't sweat it. The
> default is 600, and you generally don't really need it anywhere near
> as small as 15. Think about that: that's potentially checking your
> email every 15 seconds. Depending on the number of mailboxes you have
Well 600 is damn big, check your emails every 10mins !! How did you(they)
arrive at this number ? Outlook does it every 20 secs or lesser. And its better
to get your mails fast then wait for 10mins..
Since I use mutt in a corporate n/w, it doesnt matter if its 10secs/20secs.
Ravi
> and the latency of your connection, it could easily take longer than
> that to complete a check for mail! I know mail admins that get grumpy
> when people check their email even every 5 minutes, due to all the
> network traffic they generate. When you're checking a file on disk,
> well, you can check that pretty dang often without a performance
> effect. But over the network? You may be causing your own problem by
> having such small timeouts.
>
> Generally, I would say: stick with the default values unless you have
> a reason to change them (the defaults weren't chosen by morons).
> Chances are, you can probably leave $timeout at 600. Give the defaults
> a try, and go from there.
>
> ~Kyle
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