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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent
Date: 17 Oct 2017 16:06:18 GMT
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On 2017-10-17, android <here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <f4l3j9Fs5pfU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-10-16, android <here@there.was> wrote:
>> > In article <f4k5lnFlcpfU1@mid.individual.net>,
>> >  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > The OP uses the same client and macOS account for at least two members 
>> > of his family.
>> 
>> No.
>
> Sure he did

No:

In article <1ndzim2.10rgzblfe80lqN%csampson@inetworld.net>,
csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:
> android <here@there.was> wrote:
>
>> The OP uses the same client and macOS account for at least two
>> members of his family. ... 
>
> Sorry. You misread. My wife and I each use two different accounts. I
> use that advanced Mac concept of different users for the two of us.
> ;-)


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