POP3 Download Frequency

[horsman]

I have Gmail set up to download emails from an separate domain via
POP3. This is working well, but for one thing. Account Settings does
not have an option to set the frequency that Gmail checks for new
messages on the other account and the frequency of checking appears to
vary from between 30 and 60 minutes. I'd like this to be every 5
minutes.

Does anyone know if there are any options/plans to enable me to
configure the frequency that Gmail automatically checks my other
account. I know that I can manually go into Settings and instigate a
check but I'd like this to be automated.

Thanks.

[Zack (Doc)]

How do I set up Mail Fetcher?
https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288&topic=1577
<excerpt>
"Gmail checks for new messages at different rates for individual
accounts, depending on previous mail fetch attempts. Please note that
you can't customize the default frequency of mail fetches."
</excerpt>

This says to me "how often we check your POP accounts depends on how
fast messages are flowing into it". This makes sense to me, as it's
useless to check every 5 minutes if your average message flow is only
1 new one every half-hour. If you want mail to come to your account
more quickly, it makes more sense to use forwarding from the other
account. This causes the message to be instantly copied over to the
GMail account (it's what I use).

As far as the automated part, I believe there is a greasemonkey script
that does that.

[Ryan Morehart]

AFAIK, there is no way, as allowing everyone to have their POP accounts checked that often could easily overload Google's servers.

Ryan

On 7/3/07, horsman <stephen...@googlemail.com> wrote:

[J Rudick]

You should check elsewhere in this discussion group for more
information about how frequently Gmail will access your other
accounts. If you feel you desperately need more frequent updates then
you might try setting the other account to forward to Gmail. In the
meantime, go to Gmail's feature suggestion page and make a request for
all your heart desires.