On 2017-02-09 12:25, John Levine wrote:
I never understand why users won't just collect mail from the 'proper'
mail server rather than having to forward it all to gmail/hotmail. A
large portion of our support issues are to do with this forwarding.
Bad reason: setting up POP collection takes two minutes, while adding a
forward only takes 15 seconds.
Better reason: POP polling can add noticable delays to your mail, and
most places don't let you set the polling schedule.
While this is true, this is really on the Gmail/Hotmail of the world for
not implementing IMAP with IDLE support to monitor for new messages.
Gmail is interesting here, while you can't set the POP3 polling
frequency it does seem to take user activity into account and poll more
often when you're active.
The hybrid "SMTP forward what you can, let POP3 pick up the rest" model
works well with Gmail, but I haven't really tried other providers to
know how or if it scales.
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