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IIRC, Every 5 minutes used to be the standard interval between email checks, back in the days of dialup and desktop email clients. How the times have changed .

• lucb1e 1y ago
  It's near-instant now not usually because of more incessant polling, but because it simply keeps the connection open (can last many hours without sending a single byte, depending also on the platform) and writes data onto it as needed (IMAP IDLE). This has gotten more efficient if anything
• pjmlp 1y ago
  And because how expensive they were in Portugal, I never done it, it was always on manual.
  • ghurtado 1y ago
    Right! The "send and receive" button is seared into my brain I was in Spain at the time, and at first you had to connect to the Internet through a phone number in France. Did you guys have something like that?
    • pjmlp 1y ago
      In the early days, it was a long distance call to either Lisbon or Porto, I only got a modem, when regional numbers were available to the district capitals. However on BBS days was much worse, it was mostly long distace calls to someone around the country, and they usually only had a couple of connections available like five or so. Ah another thing is that they adopted the same model as mobile phones, so at least we could pre-pay the calls, and went we run out of cash there was it, no surprise bills, even if frustated.