Checking Mail with POP Clients (Netscape, Eudora, etc.)

If you are using a POP email client to check your mail (Netscape,
Eudora, or some other POP client), set your interval for checking mail
to 15 minutes (see below for instructions on checking your settings).
Checking your mail more often than 15 minutes can cause an excessive
load on the mail server, which is processing between 60,000 and 200,000
messages per day.

Users who are found checking their mail more frequently may have their
Central UNIX account frozen for system abuse, because of the load that
the multiple requests place on the mail server.

Also users should not leave POP clients running while they are not using
their systems.  Such unattended checks waste system resources
needlessly.  Only check you mail when you are at your workstation and
ready to read/respond to it.

To set the checking interval value in Netscape, go to the "Options" pull-
down menu, select "Mail and News Preferences..".  Then go to the
"Servers" Tab and set "Check for Mail every" to 15 for 15 minutes.  Look
for a similar setting if you are using a different POP mail client (such
as Eudora).

If you live in the Dorms and have any further questions, please contact
RESNet at 756-5600.

If you do not live in the Dorms and have any further questions, please
call the Help Desk at 756-7000 and ask for the Internet Applications
Support Group.