Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments
On Tue 14 Apr 2020 at 07:25:28 (+0000), Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 09:51:38AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > > I suppose I need to reduce the limit of the number of messages
> > > downloaded in a sesson, so as to enable more frequent checks for
> > > incoming messages.
> >
> > What benefit would this bring?
>
> Perhaps once a month or once every other month, I am on the telephone
> with a party who is sending me an email, typically with an attachment.
> And typically I have been "on hold" on the phone for a half hour to
> reach that individual. So the other guy says, "I just sent the
> message; tell me when you receive it." And I must reply, "My system
> checks for new messages only every three minutes."
>
> And then three minutes pass as we discuss the weather, and still the
> message has not arrived. So the other guy sends the message again,
> and we wait another three minutes, and sometimes longer. For some
> reason, messages from one of the larger domain registration outfits
> routinely take twelve hours to reach me; that was the case two or
> three times within the past few months.
>
> So in such instances, it would be nice to check for new mail once a
> minute. Even better would be a check made immediately upon demand; I
> know how to do that, and I have done it before. But most of the time,
> a check every half hour would be adequate.
Have you examined the timestamps in the email header of such emails in
order to see where the holdup is occurring. It may or may not be in
the last hop.
Cheers,
David.
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