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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 16:42:26 GMT
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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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