imap: only allow 1 request per n minutes ?

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 pilsl at goldfisch.at wrote:

> Like everywhere else we have the problem that many users set the
> fetch-interval on their mailclient to one minute (or even below with
> croned fetchmails).
>
> I'd like to restrict access to max. 1 fetch per 5 minutes or so. Is
> there any feature in cyrus imapd ? Or any third-party-application that
> might help.

If you want this for POP, try the popminpoll imapd.conf option.

For IMAP, this behavior doesn't really make sense, since you check for new
mail on a "live" connection, and many commands can result in new mail
notification.

> What I'd also like to have (but now I just start dreaming around :) is
> that this restriction can by bypassed a few times a day. If users are
> really waiting for a very important email, they should be able to
> query the server more often, but only a few times a day or so.

There's no current way to do this, even for POP.

-Rob

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