Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent Date: 17 Oct 2017 16:36:56 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 71 Message-ID: References: <1ndyit3.a7hh9h1ppr9vfN%csampson@inetworld.net> X-Trace: individual.net bAv4uBOz9ingiKti/DH3+wpb/V6vXz5p++bbP9asz9F0VPTcgs Cancel-Lock: sha1:OVY7s4QaQTQz5l0i1m0hzPaO6ko= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:39766 On 2017-10-17, android wrote: > In article , > Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2017-10-17, android wrote: >>> In article , >>> Jolly Roger wrote: >>>> On 2017-10-16, android wrote: >>>>> In article , >>>>> Jolly Roger wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 2017-10-16, Charles H. Sampson 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: > > Sure he did... >> >> In article <1ndzim2.10rgzblfe80lqN%csampson@inetworld.net>, >> csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote: >> > android 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. >> > ;-) > > That was not coherent with is his original query: > > In article <1ndwqfw.g5lou8vapvb0N%csampson@inetworld.net>, > csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote: > >> My wife and I both use Eudora's personalities to access more than one >> mailbox on our ISP. No. He didn't say they share the same macOS user account - you inferred that all on your own. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR