Retrieve mail every x minutes not working

Hi,

I am using the last version of Windows Live Mail and I have defined the
option "Check for new messages every --- minutes" to check messages
every minute.

I am checking 4 hotmail mail accounts.

The problem is that it seems that WLM doesn't check mail every minute
but more every ten minutes approximatively .

Is it normal ?
Is there a way to force automaticaly the check messages every minute ?

Thank you

--
Pascal

CANNOT check mail very minute.

takes the systems more time than that to complete one check.

what in the world do you think is so important that you need to check mail every minute.

20-30 minutes is more reasonable.




mikeyhsd@xxxxxx



"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:mn.5b387d7ca0c940cb.70874@xxxxxx
Hi,

I am using the last version of Windows Live Mail and I have defined the
option "Check for new messages every --- minutes" to check messages
every minute.

I am checking 4 hotmail mail accounts.

The problem is that it seems that WLM doesn't check mail every minute
but more every ten minutes approximatively .

Is it normal ?
Is there a way to force automaticaly the check messages every minute ?

Thank you

--
Pascal

Regardless of what he thinks is so important, if he has it set for one minute, it should check every minute and if it doesn't, it's a bug. What OS? XP or Vista. If you change it to 10 minutes, does it work properly?
--
©LarryEº

"mikey" <mikeyhsd@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:%233zJXYAPIHA.5400@xxxxxx
CANNOT check mail very minute.

takes the systems more time than that to complete one check.

what in the world do you think is so important that you need to check mail every minute.

20-30 minutes is more reasonable.




mikeyhsd@xxxxxx



"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:mn.5b387d7ca0c940cb.70874@xxxxxx
Hi,

I am using the last version of Windows Live Mail and I have defined the
option "Check for new messages every --- minutes" to check messages
every minute.

I am checking 4 hotmail mail accounts.

The problem is that it seems that WLM doesn't check mail every minute
but more every ten minutes approximatively .

Is it normal ?
Is there a way to force automaticaly the check messages every minute ?

Thank you

--
Pascal

It is not a bug.
Checking one account every minute sometimes is too soon.
If mail is still being downloaded, is it supposed to check for new mail?
Add the fact that there are 4 accounts.

Email is not Instant Messaging.
--
Ronald Sommer

"©LarryEº" <me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9BCF5F70-2C17-48CD-B47E-CCA693DF9A07@xxxxxx
Regardless of what he thinks is so important, if he has it set for one
minute, it should check every minute and if it doesn't, it's a bug. What
OS? XP or Vista. If you change it to 10 minutes, does it work properly?
--
©LarryEº

"mikey" <mikeyhsd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%233zJXYAPIHA.5400@xxxxxx
CANNOT check mail very minute.

takes the systems more time than that to complete one check.

what in the world do you think is so important that you need to check mail
every minute.

20-30 minutes is more reasonable.



mikeyhsd@xxxxxx

"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.5b387d7ca0c940cb.70874@xxxxxx
Hi,

I am using the last version of Windows Live Mail and I have defined the
option "Check for new messages every --- minutes" to check messages
every minute.

I am checking 4 hotmail mail accounts.

The problem is that it seems that WLM doesn't check mail every minute
but more every ten minutes approximatively .

Is it normal ?
Is there a way to force automaticaly the check messages every minute ?

Thank you

--
Pascal

Hi,

just for answering to mikey.
It is "important" for me to see that I have received mails as I am
admin of a forum and it's nice to be alerted quite quickly after an
answer of a topic has been sent.

For the others, the check of the 4 accounts is very quickly ! Something
like 7-8 seconds for every accounts so the explanation about the fact
that the check is not yet terminated is not true.(Moreover I am never
receiving attached files with my emails, just few text).

Moreover if I force a synchro, it is working.
Am I the only one that is having this issue ?
It can't be a Hotmail limitation?

I am quite sure I will have the same problem with only one account.

I have tried on XP SP2 and 2008.

Thank you

--
Pascal

If one or more of your accounts happens to have a lot of emails
to download, the process will not complete in 7-8 seconds.
When I used to work tech support for an Internet company, we
often ran into a situation where the server mailbox was 'hung'
because the user's checking interval was too frequent. After
a bunch of email has downloaded, the server needs to do some
housekeeping chores, like deleting emails and resetting pointers.
Bottom line, I would not recommend a checking interval shorter
than five minutes.

--
Gary VanderMolen [MS-MVP WLM]


"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:mn.5cae7d7c58bd9cd5.70874@xxxxxx

I just timed the check of my 12 accounts and it was done in 10 seconds.
Plenty of time left over. If there is a valid reason that 1 minute is too
short of an interval for checking, then it should not be able to be set as
such.
--
©LarryEº

"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uPrn41APIHA.5184@xxxxxx
It is not a bug.
Checking one account every minute sometimes is too soon.
If mail is still being downloaded, is it supposed to check for new mail?
Add the fact that there are 4 accounts.

Email is not Instant Messaging.
--
Ronald Sommer

"©LarryEº" <me@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:9BCF5F70-2C17-48CD-B47E-CCA693DF9A07@xxxxxx
Regardless of what he thinks is so important, if he has it set for one
minute, it should check every minute and if it doesn't, it's a bug. What
OS? XP or Vista. If you change it to 10 minutes, does it work properly?
--
©LarryEº

"mikey" <mikeyhsd@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%233zJXYAPIHA.5400@xxxxxx
CANNOT check mail very minute.

takes the systems more time than that to complete one check.

what in the world do you think is so important that you need to check mail
every minute.

20-30 minutes is more reasonable.



mikeyhsd@xxxxxx

"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.5b387d7ca0c940cb.70874@xxxxxx
Hi,

I am using the last version of Windows Live Mail and I have defined the
option "Check for new messages every --- minutes" to check messages
every minute.

I am checking 4 hotmail mail accounts.

The problem is that it seems that WLM doesn't check mail every minute
but more every ten minutes approximatively .

Is it normal ?
Is there a way to force automaticaly the check messages every minute ?

Thank you

--
Pascal

This was a frequent complaint throughout the beta period. Checking at one
minute intervals, however, simply bogs down/hangs many mail servers. Like
Gary said, allow the server time to do it's housekeeping before making the
next check. I agree that MS probably should have made some kind of lower
limit to the check frequency, but I imagine there are actually some servers
out there that could actually handle a one minute check interval.

LuDean

"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.5b387d7ca0c940cb.70874@xxxxxx

2008 would be WLM 12.0.1606 ?

--
...winston
ms-mvp windows live mail


"Pascal" <pascal_t@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:mn.5cae7d7c58bd9cd5.70874@xxxxxx

I have perhaps an explanation.

Indeed it seems that sometimes hotmail servers "hangs" and it takes
several minutes to check my emails.

I have also verified that the check interval defined will be the time
that WLM will wait before checking mail accounts AFTER THE END of the
last check.

So, if I force a check at 9h30min00s and the check is ending at
9h30min15s then the next check will be done 1 minute after the end of
the last check so at 9h31min15s.

So "perhaps", when the server hangs and that WLM is waiting for an
answer several minutes for one account, it could explain the fact that
I have regularly to wait 10 minutes to receive my emails.

It is working fine with a POP account.


--
Pascal