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Mail polling doesn't require accuracy. The OS won't delay your polling timer more than 10 minutes in the most aggressive cases, which is perfectly fine. I'm su
by Dalton9 3y ago
Mail polling doesn't require accuracy. The OS won't delay your polling timer more than 10 minutes in the most aggressive cases, which is perfectly fine.
I'm sure the third party you share your email just to get push notifications with isn't monitoring your mailbox to the second either...
- db48x 3y agoThey probably are. If they connect via IMAP, they can use the IDLE and/or the NOTIFICATION command to get notifications of new messages arriving. This is generally as prompt as it gets; the server doesn’t wait much before sending the notifications.