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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. |
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