Re: Idea for optimizing gotmail

On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 06:41, John Fruetel wrote:
> I'm not sure how uch would be gained from this.  It takes a bit of cpu just
> to get logged in and I don't think if it doesn't find anything to download
> (an empty inbox), it just sorta quits.
> 

If logging into hotmail is mandatory for getting this info, I agree with
you completely: there is nothing to optimize.

I just thought it might be possible to get this "new mail = true/false"
flag, without logging in at all.

Of course I was probably wrong..  but it seemed to me, that programs
such as Trillian or GAIM got the info using another interface to
hotmail.

Maybe, using that other interface, there's an easy, "short" way to know
whether new e-mails arrived or not ?

Best Regards,
Joël


> Thanks!
> John Fruetel
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joël Bourquard" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 2:47 PM
> Subject: [gotmail] Idea for optimizing gotmail
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > I'm using gotmail and it works great !
> >
> > I'm thought about running it frequently from a background-running shell
> > script, but gotmail seems to take some cpu time while running.
> >
> > Would it be possible, as an option, to make a quick check and see
> > whether the inbox is empty or not ? I see gaim does this, as probably
> > other programs do.
> >
> > This would spare a lot of work, in most cases where there's no new mail
> > :-)
> >
> > Just my two cents...
> >
> > Joël
> >
> >
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