[kdepim-users] KMail 4.13 upgrade: check for new mails minimum every 5 minutes?

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Saturday 26 of April 2014 09:32:23 Benedikt Engelhard wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> ist there a reason for such a high minimum value of 5? At least in my
> oppinion, this is a rather long time.

It's a reasonable minimum to make sure sync tasks don't pile up: imagine slow 
IMAP server with many busy folders - sync can easily take couple minutes and 
Akonadi would then end up in doing nothing else but syncing mail, eating away 
CPU and IO, not mentioning battery, when running on laptop. 

> Or is there a difference between "checking the inbox for new mails" and
> "syncing folders"?
> Because since I did changed the value to one in akonadi_imap_resource_Xrc
> 
> >[cache]
> >IntervalCheckTime=1
> 
> the new mails really arrive after one minute in my inbox (and that's really
> important IMHO).
> 
> Syncin folders every 5 minutes is ok, checking for new mail only every 5
> minutes is not. If these two ways are different in the codebase (syncing,
> checking), then there should be two different options to set the intervals
> in the configurations dialog...?

Should be the same, but maybe there's some another trigger in IMAP resource 
(or it's a bug in Akonadi scheduler).

Dan

> 
> Greetings,
>  Ben
> 
> Am Freitag, 25. April 2014, 18:23:58 schrieb Daniel Vrátil:
> > On Sunday 20 of April 2014 16:23:20 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > On Saturday, 2014-04-19, 14:10:00, Benedikt Engelhard wrote:
> > > > Anyway, I have an IMAP-Account, since push does not seem to work, I
> > > > had
> > > > set
> > > > to check mails every minute. With 4.13 the lowest value for checking
> > > > the
> > > > inbox is 5 (Five!) Minutes. The control doesn't allow me to enter a
> > > > lower
> > > > value. How do I change that from a 5 to a 1 minute interval?
> > > 
> > > That kind of puzzled me since I have resource configured to less so I
> > > began
> > > some code digging :)
> > > 
> > > Seems the minimum of that setting can be configured as well, just not
> > > from
> > > an UI (the intent being that sysadmins could set a higher minimum of
> > > that
> > > was required for their systems).
> > > 
> > > The change in behavior is a result of the default being changed from 1
> > > to
> > > 5
> > > minutes.
> > > 
> > > If you want to change that to 1 again, create (or modify if exists) a
> > > file
> > > called resourcebaserc in any of the directories listed by
> > > kde4-config --path config
> > > 
> > > containing
> > > 
> > > [ConfigurationDialogRestrictions}
> > > MinimumCheckInterval=1
> > 
> > This won't work :-) There is (and always have been) a minimum limit on how
> > often folders can be synced in Akonadi server which is hardcoded to 5
> > minutes. So even when you configured less than that, the folder was never
> > synced more often than every 5 minutes. I just changed the default value
> > in
> > resourcebaserc to 5 in KDE 4.13 not to fool users :-)
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Keivn
> 
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