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- From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Filter problems
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.134309.23180@DSI.COM>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 13:43:09 GMT
- References: <66990@hydra.gatech.EDU> <minor.715032906@coal8> <LINDA.92Sep1134011@matisse.uni-paderborn.de>
- Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA
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- linda@uni-paderborn.de (Linda Floren) writes:
- >We easily got rid of our elm-problems, when we stopped the
- >elm-feature, that makes elm look for new mail EVERY SECOND !!! This of
- >course causes lots of NFS-traffic.
-
- >Now elm only looks for new mail when an arrow-key (up, down) is
- >pressed, an it works absolutely fine ever since!
- The timeout resync you refer to, is not every second, unless someone
- reconfigured your copy incorrectly. It is set in elm.h
- to 600 seconds, which should not cause a lot of traffic.
-
- Now, users also can reconfigure this in their elmrc file, but even
- so, we don't let them set it to less than 10 seconds.
- --
- ========================================================================
- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 2.4 Release: Oct 1,1992
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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