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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Android 11: App polling interval is not 15 minutes minimum?
Date: 14 Mar 2024 13:38:37 GMT
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VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> > VanguardLH <V@nguard.lh> wrote:
> >> Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> Not an ideal solution, but as you're using IMAP, you could use
> >>> BlueMail or K-9 Mail as an *extra* mail client and do the manual poll
> >>> with that. After all, it's just a fallback in case you don't see/get
> >>> the email with the 2SV code in your Inbox.
> >> 
> >> On Windows, Bluemail is a UWP (Univeral Windows Platform) app, not a
> >> Win32 program.  Do you know if Bluemail has a setting to configure it as
> >> a startup app, so it is running when I log into my Windows account?  On
> >> Android, is it manifested to be a stick app or use a service, so it is
> >> running when I startup the smartphone?  I don't want to remember to
> >> start an e-mail app.
> > 
> >   No, I don't use BlueMail on Windows (but Thunderbird).
> > 
> >   My comment was about your polling issue on *Android*, i.e. what it
> > says in your 'Subject:' and the topic of this group.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> I was reading how K9 (don't remember how I landed in their forums)
> changed to 15-minute minimum poll intervals, because Android was
> enforcing the minimum interval.  If true, configuring an Android client
> to poll at shorter intervals (if the client didn't update to match
> Android's minimum interval) wouldn't work to sooner get newly arrived
> messages in folders other than Inbox.
> 
> I couldn't find a manual poll option in MS Outlook or Gmail apps on my
> phone.  Only assume that they manually poll at lesser than 29 minutes to
> prevent the IMAP disconnects the server can enforce on idle connects,
> but I don't know what is their poll interval.
> 
> Windows is not a problem.  It's Google on Android where they fucked up
> (if true) the minimum 15-minimum poll interval.

  Sigh! Yes, I know all that, that's why I said:

[Rewind:]

> >>> Not an ideal solution, but as you're using IMAP, you could use
> >>> BlueMail or K-9 Mail as an *extra* mail client and do the manual poll
> >>> with that. After all, it's just a fallback in case you don't see/get
> >>> the email with the 2SV code in your Inbox.

  So using BlueMail or K-9 Mail on *Android* as an *extra* mail client,
can solve your problem of *manually* polling your *Spam* folder when you
expect, but don't see/get the email with the 2SV code in your Inbox.