Among those who report variable intervals between checks, can you
think of anything at all that changes along with those intervals?
Things to think of would be having gmail open in a browser window,
having notifier open and active on multiple computers, receiving
emails less or more frequently, etc.

When I noticed that my notifier wasn't checking every minute like
before, I assumed something was wrong and went through some simple
troubleshooting steps.  After I exhausted the limits of my creativity,
I concluded that it is probably not an issue with my installation.  At
this point, I'm leaning toward an intentional (unannounced) change.
When you add an IMAP account to your gmail, the interval at which it
checks that account can vary from every few minutes to every day,
depending on how frequently it encounters new messages.  It determines
this automatically and you cannot change it (which was why I set my
other email accounts up to forward to me instead).  If the amount of
use or the frequency of receipt of messages (or anything quantifiable
and consistent) affects the interval, that would be a good argument
for saying that we're dealing with a silent feature release.  If we
can't correlate it, maybe it is a "bug" that hasn't been properly
acknowledged.

-Walter

On Oct 23, 11:08 am, wjfischer wrote: