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: bill fancher <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:17:56 -0700
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 04:29 PM, cricket wrote:
It'll crash any time you change it, regardless of whether it's one of
the 'standard' time periods or not.
That's not what I'm seeing here. I can successfully change between (at
least some) 'standard' PollTimes with a script or with defaults. No
crash when opening preferences. (Only tried "5" and "15".)
BTW, seems to me the terminology should have been "fetch period" or
"fetch interval", rather than "fetch frequency". The dimensions are
wrong for frequency. (Guess it's kinda late to change now.)
--
bill
- 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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