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Originally Posted by beentold
Oh thanks I'll try that.
Question: I have been using Thunderbird for a while on one of my PCs and it always displayed incoming mail instantly. As if it had a constant connection or something (I'm sorry if that sounds stupid). Why is it that if I set Outlook to auto-check every minute, it's going to impact my computer's performance?
Are they not doing the same thing the same way? After all IMAP is one standard (again, if this is overly simplistic or stupid, I am sorry, I'm no pro on these things).
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Well, you can try setting it to every minute - but when you do that (espeically if all 6 accounts are on the same server) you're opening 6 connections and if any of the accounts are particularly busy you may end up in a situation where it doesn't finish downloading headers for an account before it begins the next check.
I don't know how Thunderbird handles their IMAP processing. You can try every minute with Outlook and it might work fine. Personally I don't find it that big a deal to wait 5 minutes for e-mail messages espeically if it means less chance of issues with my system.
02-13-2011, 11:05 AM
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