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Re: Weird pickup delays in Mail 3.0

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From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 08:35
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In article <1992Nov12.025215.11305@muddcs.claremont.edu>
wfp@jupiter.claremont.edu (Frank Price) writes:
> I have noticed with all version of Mail I believe that if the application is
> hidden, sometimes it will go for hours and hours before letting me know that
> mail has arrived.  Is there any way I can make it more important for it to
let
> me know mail has arrived?  For instance, I have had my computer on for days.
> But Mail just now notified me that I have 9 pieces of mail that have come in
> over the last three days because I had activated it just then.  It is like
the
> app gets swapped out and doesn't get a chance to run.  Is there a workaround?

Make sure you haven't checked "Hide on autolaunch". If this property is
checked, Mail will not notify you. I think it is documented somewhere...

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@rhein-main.de)

Computer industry: Industry in which the number of units sold of any
given product is inversely proportional to its technical excellence.
See also: MS-DOS, Windows, IBM-PC, X, QWERTY,
          80x86, TrueType, Survival of the shittest.
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Subject: Re: Weird pickup delays in Mail 3.0
Message-ID: <1992Nov14.083544.19098@qb.rhein-main.de>
From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 08:35:44 GMT
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