Path: csiph.com!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 20:03:07 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 85 Message-ID: References: <1ndyit3.a7hh9h1ppr9vfN%csampson@inetworld.net> X-Trace: individual.net 9MHakMQFUHm4JqtoOgF3bAm8eBvtmOD00dRucR7YF/XVKZPwMP Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZbDsJI+vNDEHfb+Uo9f56qP+rCQ= 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:39770 On 2017-10-17, android wrote: > In article , > Jolly Roger wrote: > >> On 2017-10-17, android wrote: >> > In article , >> > Jolly Roger wrote: >> >> On 2017-10-17, 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. > > I call 'em as I see 'em... And as the OP has already confirmed (his own words: "My wife and I each use two different accounts."), you called it WRONG. Nothing you can say will change the truth. Sorry. #notsorry -- 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