Re: Unexpected network error
Ok..sounds like IDLE extension is the way to go.
Let me see how to make that extension. Thanks Kyle
- Ravi
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Friday, September 26 at 03:23 PM, quoth Ravi Uday:
>>> I also just loaded up my copy of VirtualBox to check out Microsoft
>>> Outlook 2000 myself. The default setting for new accounts is to check
>>> for new messages every 10 minutes, and it's *impossible* to change
>>> that setting to less than 1 minute (you can see a screen shot of the
>>
>> Well I am not mistaken. I dont know which version you are using or looked at:
>> Here is mine : MS Office Outlook 2003 (11.8...) SP3
>>
>> And in there I can clearly set it at 1 minute.
>> (Goto : Tools->Send/Receive --> Send-Receive-Settings --> Define
>> Send/Receive groups)
>> In there you can see the least allowed is 1 min.
>
> Which is EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. It's impossible to set it to less than 1
> minute. You said you were configuring your Outlook to check every 20
> seconds, which is technically impossible by your own admission.
>
>> I also spoke with network-admin and he confirmed its in the order of
>> secs.
>
> 60 seconds is "on the order of secs".
>
>> Practically, I also asked my colleague to send me a email. And within
>> 20-30secs it was there in my Outlook.
>
> That's got nothing to do with anything. The 20-30 second delay could
> easily be how long it takes to deliver email, and Outlook could easily
> be using the IMAP IDLE extension (or whatever the equivalent is in the
> MAPI protocol), which would mean that the mail client gets notified
> the very moment that email arrives.
>
> Mutt also supports the IDLE extension, and can do the exact same thing
> you just observed Outlook do, and mutt can do that even with $timeout
> set to 600, because IDLE doesn't rely on the client re-checking for
> new email. IDLE *informs* the client of new mail *unasked*. It can be
> thought of as a "push" protocol.
>
> Let me say that again: the IDLE extension means that your client tells
> the server "let me know when new mail comes", which is different from
> periodically checking for new mail.
>
>> Well most commonly all your terminals(PCs) will be wired to a VLAN
>> operating over a catalyst giga-bit switches. It has the capacity to
>> switch packets at x-gigs per secs and we are here talking of kb's of
>> mail data. Its negligence IMO.
>
> <sigh> You didn't read what I wrote. I'm talking about load on the
> server, not bandwidth. The fanciness of your network is *irrelevant*
> to my point.
>
> ~Kyle
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