<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 4, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">Take a look what the typical mail client does, and duplicate that<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">behaviour. If PmWiki does that, it will be seen as just a single<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">additional mail client, which might be enough to shoot for initially.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS; min-height: 16.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">I don't use a POP3 mail client, so I really don't know what a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">typical mail client uses (and don't necessarily want to be installing</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">mail clients just to find out).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Anyone else have an idea as to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Comic Sans MS">what most mail clients use as their default poll interval for mail?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Oh -- I think the point was "typical server hits" for a normal POP3 client.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Usually they have settings to check mail:</DIV><DIV>every minute</DIV><DIV>every 5 minutes</DIV><DIV>every 15 minutes</DIV><DIV>every hour</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So, I suggest that a POP3->PmWiki "client" be set for a minimum of 60 seconds, and a default of 300 -- no need to set a maximum.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The problem is that setting POP3->PmWiki for 60 seconds does NOT mean that it will check your mail every 60 seconds. It will NOT check if the last check was within 60 seconds. It will check at most as often as people hit the website...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Patricks' PUSH->PmWiki would not be using POP3, and can be set up with email->SMTP->pmwiki.org->mail agent->procmail->script at which point it issues a normal browser request pointing at SOMEONE's server that creates a post.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Crisses</DIV></BODY></HTML>