Fastmail - fetch more frequently

mua34 · 18 Feb 2019, 11:43 AM

I signed up for a 30 day free trial on fastmail.com and it has been great so far but there is one thing I can't figure out.

I set up a POP fetch account and it says it will fetch every 5 min when logged in and every hour when logged out. 1 hour is too long so I'm hoping there's a way to fetch more frequently. Any ideas?

xyzzy · 18 Feb 2019, 01:05 PM

That's how it's going to behave in the webmail when not explicitly initiating a fetch. Your email client on the other hand will fetch whatever is on the servers at the time it fetches it. So the actual polling time for a client is determined by that client. And like the webmail you can force a fetch in the client too.

Try it for yourself. Send an email to yourself in your client. It won't take 5 minutes (whether you logged into the webmail or not) to come back to your client's inbox (assuming it polls faster than that). Or force the fetch from the client using it's "get mail" or however it words it.

BritTim · 18 Feb 2019, 03:53 PM

For a long time, much better than polling your legacy accounts using POP fetch was to automatically forward messages from your legacy accounts to FastMail. If you want near immediate delivery, that is still how it must be done. Unfortunately, there is now a drawback. Without going into a lot of technical detail, messages received at FastMail that have been forwarded may fail DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance). This can make false positives on spam checks more likely.

18 Feb 2019, 11:43 AM	#1
mua34 Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2019 Posts: 1	Fastmail - fetch more frequently I signed up for a 30 day free trial on fastmail.com and it has been great so far but there is one thing I can't figure out. I set up a POP fetch account and it says it will fetch every 5 min when logged in and every hour when logged out. 1 hour is too long so I'm hoping there's a way to fetch more frequently. Any ideas?

18 Feb 2019, 01:05 PM	#2
xyzzy Essential Contributor Join Date: May 2018 Posts: 474	That's how it's going to behave in the webmail when not explicitly initiating a fetch. Your email client on the other hand will fetch whatever is on the servers at the time it fetches it. So the actual polling time for a client is determined by that client. And like the webmail you can force a fetch in the client too. Try it for yourself. Send an email to yourself in your client. It won't take 5 minutes (whether you logged into the webmail or not) to come back to your client's inbox (assuming it polls faster than that). Or force the fetch from the client using it's "get mail" or however it words it.

18 Feb 2019, 03:53 PM	#3
BritTim The "e" in e-mail Join Date: May 2003 Location: mostly in Thailand Posts: 3,090	For a long time, much better than polling your legacy accounts using POP fetch was to automatically forward messages from your legacy accounts to FastMail. If you want near immediate delivery, that is still how it must be done. Unfortunately, there is now a drawback. Without going into a lot of technical detail, messages received at FastMail that have been forwarded may fail DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance). This can make false positives on spam checks more likely.