Re: How to use "Check for new mail" feature
Re: How to use "Check for new mail" feature
- Subject: Re: How to use "Check for new mail" feature
- From: cricket <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:29:29 -0700
It'll crash any time you change it, regardless of whether it's one of
the 'standard' time periods or not.
- cricket
On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 11:35 AM, bill fancher wrote:
Wait until they fix the bug that causes Mail to blow up if you have a
value that's not in the popup and you open Mail's Account Preferences.
Setting to one of the predefined values via script works here, even
with Account Preference open. With "non-standard" periods I suspect
that as long as you don't open Account Preferences the timing for mail
checks is right (didn't bother to test). After crash, the value is
reset to 15 so you'd need to re-run your script to reset the timing.
But be prepared to crash whenever you open Account Preferences.
It seems likely that the code to read the value from prefs and set the
popup control doesn't handle "non-standard" values very well.
Someone's made some invalid assumptions somewhere along the way, e.g.
"the value in prefs will always be one of the predefined values".
That's not even a safe assumption in the absence of AppleScript. The
prefs could be changed in Terminal with
defaults write com.apple.mail PollTime 10
and in fact, that causes the exact same crash.
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