IMAP check mail every "X" minutes? Why?

Isnt IMAP supposed to conenct live to the server and deliver the message AS IT IS RECEIVED?
For some reason mail3 only checks mail every "X" minutes. Fine for POP3, not so cool for IMAP.
Running thunderbird on another box and mail3 on my mac watching messages instantly received by thunderbird, then come stumbling in on my mac several minutes delayed makes me wonder how much of an IMAP client mail3 really is.

Isnt IMAP supposed to conenct live to the server and deliver the message AS IT IS RECEIVED?
Only if both the client and server support the IDLE extension.
For some reason mail3 only checks mail every "X" minutes. Fine for POP3, not so cool for IMAP.
Running thunderbird on another box and mail3 on my mac watching messages instantly received by thunderbird, then come stumbling in on my mac several minutes delayed makes me wonder how much of an IMAP client mail3 really is.
Mail on OS X has never supported the IDLE extension, and from what I've seen so far, the new version is very flaky at best. We can only hope for a fix in the next update.

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Checking Mail Every 0 Minutes

I just got a message from my campus IT department asking all e-mail users to set their IMAP clients to check every 0 minutes to reduce the frequency with which the e-mail database needs to be loaded into RAM. (i.e. to maintain a continual connection to the server) It also requires that I set a maximum number of server connections to 2.
It says that MacMail can't do this, and that I must switch to Mozilla. But, well, I don't like Mozilla. Is there any way to force MacMail to do continual IMAP connections and to cap server connections? Perhaps a handy freeware extension somewhere?

Here's what the directions I got said:
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First try a Reset ( No Data will be Lost )
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Which drains battery worse - yahoo push or checking every 15 minutes?

Just wondering whether yahoo's push, which I suppose requires a continuous connection, uses more battery than checking mail every 15 minutes, or every 30 minutes. I'll try the experiment myself, but I'm wondering if anyone's already done it.

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Treo keeps checking mail even though set to manual update

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Background: When I first got the phone, I stupidly set it to check mail every few minutes until I realized that ran my battery down in about 5 hours. I set it to 'once per day' and it worked fine. Then a couple of weeks ago, I temporarily set it to 5 minutes or something like that for a specific situation. I then tried to change it back to once per day and/or manual. The value shows 'once per day' on the options page. But it ignores it now. Not sure how often it checks. But i get email notifications almost instantly every time an email arrives. And my battery is dying again. I've tried changing it around several times, rebooting, etc.
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Thanks for the response. I had long since tried everything you suggested.
I did quite a bit more testing and googling, and I think I've resolved it. But there are definitely some serious problems (My feeling is that these are code defects) in the 800w that caused this.
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3) I have my own hosting business and host my own email pop server. So I have easy access to the POP logs. Here is a snippit from the pop logs with "refresh rate = 1 day":
12/12/08 21:07:31 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:08:40 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:09:52 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:11:04 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:12:16 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:13:28 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
12/12/08 21:14:40 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.************************.com from 174-149-227-149.pools.spcsdns.net
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6) I then discovered that there are TWO places to set the refresh rate (???? that's a good design????). If you open the inbox and select Delivery Preferences from the menu, there is ANOTHER checkbox to "Connect and check for messages every...." with an entry field to enter the number of minutes.
7) Ok.. this is the defect in the code: That checkbox was OFF, and the entry field was gray. That obvious has to mean that I don't want to autocheck anything. (and that is the default way it comes up on a new account, which makes sense). But it appears the checkbox is being IGNORED in the code. It was indeed checking. And I suspect the empty grayed 'minutes' field was probably returning 0 or something like that to the code. So ignoring the checkbox and having a zero minutes refresh rate, it was probably defaulting to a minimum of 1 minute. But it should NOT be refreshing at all with that checkbox off.
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12/12/08 22:18:34 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.*******************.com
12/12/08 22:34:09 INFO pop3server: Connection for treo.*******************.com
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Mail in Leopard (10.5.4) stops checking my IMAP e-mail account

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support.microsoft.com/kb/2750820 - This does not resolved your issue because it applies only to the Quorum model Node and File share majority.
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