Re: Android 11: App polling interval is not 15 minutes minimum?

VanguardLH wrote:

your e-mail provider supports IMAP IDLE.  That doesn't wait for a
poll interval to detect new messages are available.

Yes, except I had been finding there were times (e.g. the first 5 tests I did today which didn't notify, and the one where it did notify, but only after 6 minutes)

Alas, many users report IDLE isn't super-reliable.  They get a new
message in the Inbox on the server, and they don't get notified in
their client until the next mail poll.

Since I have poll disabled on inbox, I know that if I get notified, it is from push.

I don't remember seeing an IMAP IDLE capable client that lets you
configure when it times out

K9 default IDLE is 24 minutes but can be altered (settings, account, fetching, advanced)

Alas, IMAP IDLE only works on the Inbox folder, not on other folders.

I really don't want notifications for spam thanks.

You should have your e-mail client configured to do polling.  If the
server supports IDLE, your client can get new messages in the Inbox very
quickly, but not in other folders.  For the other folders, polling gets
used.

You can probably use a combination of push on 1st class folders and polling on 2nd class folders, I don't but it's a potentially useful concept.

To what minimum interval can you configure K9 to poll?

15 mins.

I don't know if it was the Feb 29 update to 6.800 that
changed to the 15-min min poll interval, or a slightly older version
that changed the minimum.

Dunno, not been into settings for a while.