Hello, your on the right track and yes I understand Mail will
retrieve mail while Mail is running. I guess what I was curious about
is there is Mail from whithin the gui and Mail from within Terminal
and they both are different. As a matter of fact, Mail in Terminal
will read /var/spool/mail, but Mail from within the gui or whatever
you want to call it does not. I guess what I was getting at is first
how does Mail, (gui) and Mail, (shell) differ, can you use something
like Fetchmail to retrieve mail if Mail (gui) isn't running and feed
that to Mail (gui), and also is it possible to have Mail (gui) read /
var/spool/mail for local messages that the system might send root/
administrator or a local user. This is confusing I realize, but so is
how Apple is using Mail (gui). I come from Linux where mail is mail
regardless because all mail goes into /var/spool/mail and is read
from there by whatever mua your using, i.e. Mutt, Pine, etc.
Obviously Mail is more like oh geez I hate to use this as an example,
but Outlook is the best thing that comes to mind. I wonder if you can
change the behavior of Mail (gui) to be more like Mail (shell), but
me thinks probably not.
tnx
Scott
On Feb 20, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
Mail by default checks all pop servers every 5 minutes. Yoou can
of course change this, but if you're only looking to pull the mail
into your local inbox, then just leave mail running and it will do
it. On the other hand, if you're looking to grab multiple
accounts, and drop them into /var/spool/mail, and then use local
accounts to retrieve mail from your box using your box as a server,
then you'll need to use something like fetchpop (the program you
were talking about) or simply set your domain (if you have one) to
dump mail on your box (if you have a static ip) Otherwise, I don't
know what you want. If these suggestions don't answer your
question, then be more specific as to what you're trying to do, and
perhaps I can elaborate more. You can run a mac server, which does
support mail. but again, it depends on what you're trying to do.
