Seems a bit too intense just to schedule the deletion of mail. You'd think
the app could just handle it, rather than having to rely on scheduling
system events which are not exactly in everyone's skill set.
--
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marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
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> From: "Wayne Brissette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: "PowerMail discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 07:30:15 -0500
> To: PowerMail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Request: "Move to Trash" Scheduler
>
> Max Gossell [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/21/03 at 7:05 AM stated:
>
>> I'm confused as well. Like I've no idea what a "crontab" is...
>
> cron is a UNIX utility built into Mac OS X that allows you to schedule
> certain events. You can run UNIX shell scripts, AppleScripts, pretty much
> whatever you can do via terminal you can schedule using cron.
>
> The actual configuration file is called a crontab.
>
> If you open up terminal and type:
>
> man cron
>
> then press return, the unix man (manual) entry for cron is displayed. you
> can also do
>
> man crontab
>
> for the man page for crontab.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Wayne
