Purpose
This page lets you choose whether or not users' individual machines should poll the database in order to check for new mail, notifications, overdue tasks, appointment reminders and remote log offs (imposed by supervisors).
Usage
If you want each client to poll the database in order to check for the above events then ensure that the Clients should check database periodically check box is checked.
Note: If this check box is not checked then you must ensure that one machine on the network is configured as a poll server (usually the machine containing the OfficeTalk database). In this situation, none of the clients will check for new mail unless prompted to by the server machine which can perform the polling without affecting the network traffic.
It is recommended that you use server based polling for workgroup sizes greater than 25 users.