Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent
Date	2017-10-16 16:42 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2017-10-16, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> On 2017-10-16 05:17:45 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:
>
>> 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.
>
> The retrieval setting is for Mail itself, not the accounts. There's no 
> way to set individual times.
>
> You might be able to crate an AppleScript / Automator Script to at 
> certain intervals fetch new emails via Mail's menu options

Yes, but GUI scripting isn't required since there is a built-in "check
for new mail" AppleScript command in Mail to fetch new mail. Read the
Apple Mail dictionary for details.

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JR

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Accounts in Mail: Not Independent csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2017-10-15 22:17 -0700
  Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2017-10-16 18:58 +1300
    Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-16 08:54 +0200
    Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-16 16:42 +0000
  Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-10-16 20:35 +1300
    Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-16 10:25 +0200
      Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-10-16 21:57 +1300
        Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-16 11:02 +0200
  Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-10-16 09:44 +0100
    Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2017-10-16 11:06 -0700
      Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-10-16 21:34 +0100
        Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-16 23:04 +0000
          Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-10-17 08:55 +0100
            Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-17 12:02 +0000
            Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 15:20 +0000
              Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-10-17 16:47 +0100
                Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 16:08 +0000
                Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2017-10-17 09:40 -0700
                Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2017-10-18 10:04 +1100
  Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-16 16:39 +0000
    Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-16 19:50 +0200
      Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2017-10-16 11:03 -0700
        Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-16 22:47 +0200
      Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-16 21:05 +0000
        Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-16 23:04 +0000
      Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 01:10 +0000
        Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-17 08:37 +0200
          Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 16:06 +0000
            Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-17 18:34 +0200
              Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 16:36 +0000
                Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-17 18:39 +0200
                Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-17 20:03 +0000
                Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent android <here@there.was> - 2017-10-18 06:27 +0200
  Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-16 21:03 +0000

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