265230 - checks permanently for new messages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Frederic.Cotman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

I have Mozilla 1.7.3 running on Win2000, with an IMAP-connection. I have checked
the option "check for new messages every 10 minutes". But instead, e-mail comes
in directly as it arrives on the server, and the program doesn't wait 10 minutes
between to checks, as I asked.

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. send a mail to your own adress, and wait till it arrives.
2. OR: ask someone to send you several mails in short time. They all arrive
separately few seconds after their sending.
Actual Results:  
1. mail doesn't wait until the next check within 10 minutes, but comes in
immediately.
2. They all arrive separately few seconds after their sending, instead of
waiting till the next check within 10 minutes, and coming all at once.

Expected Results:  
it should only check every 10 minutes and not constantly (or whatever it does now).

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

your server supports the IDLE command, which means it notifies the client of new
mail, instead of the client having to poll for it. Under advanced imap server
settings, you can disable the use of the IDLE command, if you want...