Good point -- I don't think there's any way of getting Mail to do that
other than manually taking accounts offline, then bringing them back
online when you want to check them.
Cheers,
Ben
On 19 Jan 2005, at 03:36, Luis Sequeira wrote:
I (almost) stand corrected. You're right that having different
intervals on a per-account basis is not terribly important.
I would gladly switch to Mail... now I tried it and it imported all my
mail from Eudora quite nicely. Good.
It appears to do almost everything I need. It does not import my
accounts ("personalities" in Eudora parlance), but I can remake them.
Not a big deal, I have currently 10.
I can select, on a per-account basis, whether to check mail
automatically. What I can't seem to do is to check mail for a specific
account, or set of accounts, individually.
Let be more specific: I have a few accounts for specific purposes that
are not used daily. In Eudora, I can have these set up so that "Check
mail" does not check these accounts. One, for example, is an backup
account with a "free" ISP that only allows POP when using one of their
modem connections. I
want to be able to keep this account accessible but "disabled", in the
sense that manually selecting the "Check mail" command does not try to
check mail from this account. I don't find any way to achieve this.
Now in Eudora I can leave the check box "check mail on manual checks"
unchecked and, when needed, bring up the "personalities" pane, select
this (and possibly others) personality and hit the check mail button,
thus checking mail for this personality, while the regular check mail
does not affect it.
Can I have this sort of functionality in Mail? I would love to.
Luis Sequeira
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