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It's convenient to have the list of what is in your inbox
refreshed every now and then to let you know that new mail
has arrived since you last grabbed it. You can ask the POP
program to check your mail every so many minutes.
On the other hand, there are disadvantages to doing this:
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There will probably be occasions when you want to do some
mail composing first, "offline", before connecting to the
server to send the mail you've written and get any new
mail. Having the program set to check mail every so often
will deny you control of this.
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Some systems (particularly WAM) are sensitive to
too-frequent checking of mail, and there have been times
when serious corruption of mail inboxes has happened due to
this problem.
In short, there are some serious issues of control involved.
Given that you can easily ask your program to check mail any
time you're curious, consider the "NEVER" choice rather than
selecting a number-of-minutes interval for automatic checking
of mail.
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