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Re: Accounts in Mail: Not Independent

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In article <1ne081l.dova7d164y0miN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
 dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> 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?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > If so, is it changed in later versions?
> 
> No. Every version of Mail has a single setting for how often to check
> for new messages. All POP accounts will be polled at the same time. IMAP
> accounts normally remain connected and deliver messages almost instantly
> when they arrive at the server but they also get rechecked on the
> specified period.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I can't say that is a feature which has ever concerned me, even when I
> was using Eudora. I've never had more than two or three POP accounts and
> I always wanted to fetch them at the same time.

One might ad that it is possible do disable scheduled retrieval for 
accounts individually and retrieve them manually at appropriate times. I 
couldn't care less meself. I use fetchmail...
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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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