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Article #1824Re: Mail.app
From: Kharim Hogan
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 13:56
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 13:56
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In article <1992Sep5.134933.15970@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) writes:
>
>Yes actually you can do it. In the Preferences for Mail.app, select the
>'Manual' mail retrieval option. This will allow you to start up Mail.app
>without having it automatically transfer your mail from /usr/spool/mail
>until you choose to do so (i.e. until you select 'New Mail' from the
>Utilities option). If you never select 'New Mail', your mail can always
>be read from the console, otherwise you can always get back to it via
^^^^^^^
Oops sorry that should read "you can always read your mail from "remote".
>Dan Pritts' suggestion (mail -f ...) above.
>
>Kharim
>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!boetius!hogan From: hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) Subject: Re: Mail.app Message-ID: <1992Sep5.135600.16269@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Sender: news@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: boetius.music.mcgill.ca Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM References: <1992Aug31.183156.1684@nntp.uoregon.edu> <1992Sep5.062859.14535@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1992Sep5.134933.15970@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 13:56:00 GMT Lines: 23