POP3 accts: Its there a tweak 2 enable "connect & check for msgs" sooner than 15 mins
What's up guys?
I'm trying setup my bellsouth and gmail as POP3 accts in Outlook (WM6) but noticed that unlike WM5, the most often connection setting for "connect and check for messages" its every 15mins.
I was wondering if anyone knows of a tweak or registry hack to change that and make it connect and check for messages sooner (like WM5 where you can change set it to connect as often as every 1 min)
Thanks in advance!!
Will V.
This is something i would like to know too.
It doesnt seem to be a possible option (at least not for WM6).... Its just not d convinient to have Outlook check for new mail every 15mins... specially for people who rely on email messages throughout the day.
Any suggestions?
Possibly a registry change?
Doesn't seem to be any as of now.
I would be happy if I could simply send an email from my MDA since I've flashed the WM6 ROM. So far I'm receive only.
The minimum interval for pulling mail form the server in WM6 seems to be fifteen minutes.
Is there a possibility to decrease this interval to, let's say, 1 minute?
I can't find a registry key or initiation file for this value.
I don't know if there's a registry key, but other mail applications can be changed to 1 minute or more, but...
Why not use http://live.mail2web.com or http://www.port88.org and get a free push mail account.
Uses less data than constantly checking a mail account, and you will get an email almost instantly.
Just forward your existing mail account to either of those accounts, and cinfigure your device for that.
Then you also have the advantage of all your contacts, mail, calendar events, and notes being backed up on a server.
i have some doubts about the push using less data...
for example: with push my battery will last 1 day with 5min check it will last 2 days. GPRS is always on on both cases
pushmail has already been tried, but tends to be slow compaired to the outlook 15 minute-interval.
Hi, i have my pop3 email set to download every 15 mins, but if i dont read the email i get the new mail sound every 15 mins, is there anyway around this? i have just come from using a nokia that never had this problem.
or are there any other decent pop3 mail programs that i could use?
Does scheduled email check work while on wifi only? I booted up phone without sim, connected to wifi and set to check email every 10 min. I did get 2 emails but no notification and no unread email count. Only when I opened email app, notifications worked and email count appeared.
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You should use Push email really.
Push email does a http request to the server with a long timeout, 30 mins I think. When it timesout it does another. So if you're getting no email, nothing is really going on. When you get an email, the http request is responded to telling your phone it has an email.
If you have it polling every 10 minutes, imagine an hour you get no email. It connects to the server, does all the checking, 6 times an hour.
In the same hour with Push email, your phone does two http requests that timeout.
The amount of data transferred, and the impact on battery, etc, is much worse with polling than Push!
Not a lot of people seem to be aware of that!
chrisw99 said:
You should use Push email really.
Push email does a http request to the server with a long timeout, 30 mins I think. When it timesout it does another. So if you're getting no email, nothing is really going on. When you get an email, the http request is responded to telling your phone it has an email.
If you have it polling every 10 minutes, imagine an hour you get no email. It connects to the server, does all the checking, 6 times an hour.
In the same hour with Push email, your phone does two http requests that timeout.
The amount of data transferred, and the impact on battery, etc, is much worse with polling than Push!
Not a lot of people seem to be aware of that!
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Are you serious about this? I thought PUSH mail will drain battery quicky than does you checking every 5/10mins.
cenwesi said:
Are you serious about this? I thought PUSH mail will drain battery quicky than does you checking every 5/10mins.
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I think it will drain it faster polling every 10 mins. I've got 2 email accounts atm on push and they don't seem to have any negative impact on the battery. In fact when I had my work exchange email account on and set to poll every 30 mins the battery was a lot worse.
Its still doesn`t answer my question - why on iPhone I had unread email count on the MAIL shortcut, but I don`t have one on Sensation? Are there any special settings I need to do? Maybe it doesn`t work just on WiFi?
cenwesi said:
Are you serious about this? I thought PUSH mail will drain battery quicky than does you checking every 5/10mins.
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Nope, as long as your phone is connected to the mobile network then the mail server is pinging back to the phone to say "I've got mail for you". You only transfer the data for your mails in total. For the polling method, as well as transfering the mails, you're transferring data every time you poll and there's no mail.
Just googled to see if I could get the definitive answer and it's amazing how many people still say it the wrong way round, "don't use Push it'll drain your battery".
I'm hoping some expert can back me up on this though, so I'll say I'm 99% sure to cover myself..
To the OP, sorry, I was kind of answering your question in a roundabout way - why not try using Push email to see if it works that way? You'll save on battery life as well.
chrisw99 said:
To the OP, sorry, I was kind of answering your question in a roundabout way - why not try using Push email to see if it works that way? You'll save on battery life as well.
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See this picture, isn`t that MAIL shortcut on desktop PUSH email?
http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/media/tracyandmatts_blog/windowslivewriter/htcsensationpressrelease_6840/htc-sensation_3view_2.jpg
My iPhone used to check email every 15 min, beep and show unread email count on MAIL shortcut.
Can Sensation do the same?
rbs_uk said:
See this picture, isn`t that MAIL shortcut on desktop PUSH email?
http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/media/tracyandmatts_blog/windowslivewriter/htcsensationpressrelease_6840/htc-sensation_3view_2.jpg
My iPhone used to check email every 15 min, beep and show unread email count on MAIL shortcut.
Can Sensation do the same?
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That mail shortcut just fires up the app. Once in the app, press menu key -> more -> Settings -> Send & Receive -> Update Schedule to see if you are on push or a poll.
There's also Notification Settings which says whether to notify you , play a sound, vibrate, etc.
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That mail shortcut just fires up the app. Once in the app, press menu key -> more -> Settings -> Send & Receive -> Update Schedule to see if you are on push or a poll.
There's also Notification Settings which says whether to notify you , play a sound, vibrate, etc.
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I don`t see "poll/push" settings anywhere
Why Sensation created these folders in my gmail? Any idea what settings I need to change?
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Hi everyone,
i have an question about the sync interval of gmail.
at this moment i'm using gmail so that when there is a new mail i'll be notified, this costs a lot of batterylife thru the day.
i want for example that synch interval will be done every hour?
how will i make this happen????????????
grtz roland
Push notifications
I actually believe that the official gmail application for android doesn't let you configure what you're suggesting because it uses push notifications, which means it doesn't wastes battery "asking" the internet when you have a new e-mail, but the internet tells it and it appears instantly.
The only time option in this application is about how many mails do you want your phone to storage in cache, measured in days. For example, if you type 7, you'll always be able to see much quicklier the mails you received last week.