Microsoft KB Archive/77545

= PC Adm: Description of Regular and Interval Times =

Article ID: 77545

Article Last Modified on 10/30/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 2.1
 * Microsoft Mail for PC Networks 3.0

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This article was previously published under Q77545



SUMMARY
Communicating with external postoffices often means using long distance phone services. Microsoft Mail for PC Networks lets you set up a schedule for automatic calling to take place. You can specify when your postoffice will call the external postoffice and the frequency of the calls.

Choose External-Admin, Setup, and Times. From the Times menu, you have the choices of Regular and Intervals.

You must choose either the Intervals option or the Regular option. You cannot use both of them.



Regular
The Regular option allows you to specify a time span that must elapse before your postoffice will make a connection to the external postoffice to send mail.

For example, let's assume that the last connection to the external postoffice was at 12:03. It took 20 minutes to send the mail and the regular time interval was specified to be 30 minutes. The next connection attempt to the external postoffice would be at 12:53 (12:03 + 20 minutes + 30 minutes), providing your postoffice had mail to send. If there was no mail to send, there would be no connection attempt.

You should choose this option if you anticipate that a large volume of mail will be sent to this postoffice throughout the day.

Intervals
The Intervals command allows you to set specific time intervals during the day that mail will be sent to the external postoffice. During the times that you specify, the system will check for mail to be sent to the external postoffice.

Intervals should be chosen when you need to call long distance to exchange mail with a postoffice on a network in another city. This is because Intervals lets you block out calling altogether during certain times of the day such as peak-toll charge hours.

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Keywords: KB77545

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