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Should Thunderbird check all folders for new mail?

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There is a context menu entry that enables message fetching for individual folders and an about:config setting for doing it for all folders. There is some speculation in a different question that this is necessary to avoid overloading servers.

Is this true and still appropriate? How can I as a user tell what I can set this to?

From a UX point of view it would definitely be better to just check all folders for new mail.

There is a context menu entry that enables message fetching for individual folders and an about:config setting for doing it for all folders. There is some speculation in a different question that this is necessary to avoid overloading servers. Is this true and still appropriate? How can I as a user tell what I can set this to? From a UX point of view it would definitely be better to just check all folders for new mail.

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Wayne Mery
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simon__ said
There is some speculation in a different question that this is necessary to avoid overloading servers.

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