[pmmail-list] "Gulp" size

[Kenneth Porter]

When tranferring lots of mail on a slow connection, it would be
desirable to do the retrieval in small "gulps" so that dropping the
connection doesn't cause mail to get stuck on the server.

For example, I just reconnected after a week offline over a slow link
while subscribed to several busy mailing lists, and found over 1000
messages to be transferred over a 30 kbps connection. In this situation
I'd like to be able to transfer about 20-50 messages per server
connection.

BTW, does the connection interval timer start when a connection is made
or when it's disconnected? Ie. if I set my check interval to 10 minutes
and it takes 5 minutes to transfer, will the next check be 10 minutes
after that, for a total of 15 minutes? Or 5 minutes later? If the
latter, this interval could be used to control how often to disconnect
and reconnect to purge messages transferred so far.

Ken
mailto:shiva@well.com
http://www.sewingwitch.com/ken/
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