Don wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

BillW50 wrote:

DL typed:

Depends on version of Outlook, but start looking under Options
Do not set for less than 10 minutes otherwise resource problems could
occur

Really? I never heard of this problem. I have set Outlook 97/2000 for 5
minutes and I don't ever recall a problem.

The most common problem of overly short polling intervals is of still
performing one mail poll when another comes along that is scheduled to
start. The result is the first mail poll gets aborted before it
finishes because a new one started. Outlook may end up re-retrieving
the same e-mails because it retrieved them once but its mail session got
aborted before it could delete them from the server and before it
updated its UID list.

If your retrieved e-mails are huge in size, it takes longer for them to
download. If they are large enough to take long enough, they could
still be getting retrieved when the next mail poll is scheduled to
occur. Bam, you step on your current mail session and abort it with a
newly started mail session.

Also, if you get so many e-mails at a high rate thinking that you need
to have a short polling interval to get them as soon as they arrive, you
still won't be able to read all those e-mails as they come in fast and
furious. So the polling interval can still be longer because it'll take
you some time to get reading through the ones you just got. 5 minutes,
or less, is considered abusive to the e-mail provider because if you
were getting e-mails as faster or faster than that you still wouldn't
get done processing them yourself that quick. 10 minutes is considered
a polite load on the mail server. If it's for your home e-mail account,
just how many e-mails do you get in a day that a 15- or 20-minute
polling interval can't handle?

After all, although you set Outlook to poll at 10-, 15-, or 20-minute
intervals, you don't have to be concerned that your host won't be
powered up that long for you to check for new e-mails. No matter what
polling interval is configured in Outlook, it always does a poll on
their zeroeth minute. That is, if polling is enabled, and after Outlook
loads and is ready, it will do an immediate poll. So as soon as you
start Windows and can load Outlook is when you do your first mail poll.
Based on the volume of e-mails you get *thereafter* and how fast you can
read them, just how fast do you need to poll again?

E-mail is NOT a chatting venue where immediacy is expected and required
to continue a discussion. For immediacy, use a messenger client.

It's Office 2007.

To whom did you intend to respond? I didn't ask about some Office
version. And we care about your version of Office why? The OP is Lynn.
I doubt she morphed into a Don.