Import account email time setting

[Stryker]

Hey folks, having another problem I hope someone can help me with.

I was waiting on some emails for, lets say Account A, which is
supposed to be forwarded to my gmail account. I knew they had been
sent, but they weren't showing up, so I went to check Settings >
Accounts and Import to make sure Account A was set up right,and it
said it had not checked Account A in 54 minutes.

How would I go about changing how often gmail checks Account A for new
messages?

Probably right in front of me like last time, so sorry in advance for
the most likely stupid question, and thanks again for any help!

[Elihu]

You can enable Refresh POP accounts in labs, You still have to hit refresh manually to retrieve new messages.

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[Nicholas]

Even though you stated forwarded, by your description I take it to
mean that you have setup POP3 access for an outside email account. You
can't customize the frequency that Gmail checks your POP3 accounts at
this time: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288.

You can check Labs though for a manual "Refresh POP3" gadget.

[JohnW]

The checking of POP3 accounts is related to how many e-mails that
account receives within a certain period of time: that dictates the
frequency of checking.
If it checks frequently and finds no new messages, it then spreads out
the time between checks. Once an hour seems quite reasonable if you
only ever get a few messages a day!
There are two ways to address this: firstly, if you go back to that
page where you saw it say it had been 54 minutes since the last check,
you'll see a "Check now" link for you to click. This will allow you to
do so if you're waiting on a particular message into that account.
Alternatively, if you have several POP3 accounts, there is a Labs
experiment *Refresh POP accounts* which you can enable which then
links the checking of those accounts with the "Refresh" link on the
normal webmail page, next to the "More actions" button.
But it will complain if you set that and start it checking more
frequently than every 10 minutes!!

[Andy]

> I was waiting on some emails for, lets say Account A, which is
> supposed to be forwarded to my gmail account. I knew they had been
> sent, but they weren't showing up, so I went to check Settings >
> Accounts and Import to make sure Account A was set up right,and it
> said it had not checked Account A in 54 minutes.

I think what you are referring to is fetching emails (using POP3) from
the other account, which is different from forwarding emails from that
other account, even though the end result is the same.

You cannot control the time interval Gmail uses to fetch those emails.
Gmail does it based on the frequency of emails it finds. If it finds
no new emails, it checks less often. When it finds them coming more
regularly, it checks more often, maybe as often as every 3 minutes.
But we cannot control that interval.

What you can do, is add the Gmail Lab to "Refresh POP Accounts". Then
when you are in your Inbox and click the "Refresh" link, it will fetch
those emails for you on command. (You can do the same thing by going
into Settings, but this makes it slightly easier.)

If you need the messages to always show up pronto, what you need to do
is forward them from the other account, rather than fetch them. That
needs to be configured in the other account.

Andy

[Stryker]

Thanks for all the replies! Everyone was correct, I was fetching them
from my live account. Thanks again for the help. I'll try to return
the favor to other users as I become more experienced with Gmail.