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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent
Date: 16 Oct 2017 16:39:19 GMT
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On 2017-10-16, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
> In another thread, I've been led to accounts in Apple Mail as the
> replacement for personalities in Eudora. There appear to be a bunch of
> differences, one of them significant, that one being that I can't set
> different retrieval times for the different accounts. In Mail for OS X
> 10.5.8 at least, when I change the retrieval time for one account, it
> is changed for the other(s) as well. In Eudora, I'm currently working
> with three personalities that are retrieved every five minutes, 60
> minutes, and four hours. Is this impression correct? If so, is it
> changed in later versions?
>
> As an aside, I'm surprised at the paucity of choices of retrieval
> intervals. I was a software designer/implementer and if I were
> designing such a feature I would have done what the designers of
> Eudora did: let the user specify the intervals. That's a lot easier
> than trying to come up with what the designer thinks is a slate of
> useful choices, almost certain to irritate somebody.

Software developer here. My perspective? Meh. I have way more productive
things to do with my time than fuck with different polling times for
each of my accounts. My only real concern is that when I look at my mail
it is fairly up to date. Apple Mail accomplishes that goal handily.

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