Jim Pistrang wrote:
>I do not use a schedule to retrieve mail, so my PowerMail database is
>inactive when my Retrospect backup runs. If I am certain that the
>database is inactive, will the backup be OK?
It will *probably* be OK, but there is no guaranty. I personally would
not rely on such backups.
>Now that I'm an expert in cron <g> I could do something like stop
>PowerMail at 1:00 AM, run Retrospect at 2:00, and restart PowerMail at
>3:00. Is this advisable or is it not necessary?
To quit and relaunch PowerMail as part of a shell script (which itself
is run by cron), you can do something like that:
#!/bin/bash
osascript -e "tell application \"PowerMail\" to quit"
# run retrospect here
osascript -e "tell application \"PowerMail\" to activate"
Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering
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