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Yeah, it's weird that this feature doesn't exist. It would be even better on smartphones; constantly having the new mail icon pop up on is so distracting that
by monkeypizza 14y ago
Yeah, it's weird that this feature doesn't exist.
It would be even better on smartphones; constantly having the new mail icon pop up on is so distracting that I have turned off automatic email checking on my phone, and just check manually every couple hours when not near a computer. This was after being surprised not to be able to find an option to control gmail's polling interval.
- mike-cardwell 14y agoI use K-9 Mail on my Android phone. It lets me set up per folder poll intervals and per folder push settings. Eg, I can have email from one folder pushed to my phone on delivery (using IMAP IDLE), another folder to be polled once every two hours, another daily, and the rest manually. Your "smartphone" doesn't sound very smart. [Edit] I use sieve filters on the server side to route email into various folders on delivery. [Edit2] I just double checked, and the "per folder settings" are not quite as granular as I thought. You can only set up one poll interval and add that to a selection of folders, and then set other folders to push or nothing. You can't have multiple poll intervals. Eg, Could set two folders to push, three folders to poll hourly, and the rest to manual only polls.