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- From: hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan)
- Subject: Re: Mail.app
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.135600.16269@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 13:56:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.134933.15970@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> hogan@boetius (Kharim Hogan) writes:
- >
- >Yes actually you can do it. In the Preferences for Mail.app, select the
- >'Manual' mail retrieval option. This will allow you to start up Mail.app
- >without having it automatically transfer your mail from /usr/spool/mail
- >until you choose to do so (i.e. until you select 'New Mail' from the
- >Utilities option). If you never select 'New Mail', your mail can always
- >be read from the console, otherwise you can always get back to it via
- ^^^^^^^
- Oops sorry that should read "you can always read your mail from "remote".
-
- >Dan Pritts' suggestion (mail -f ...) above.
- >
- >Kharim
- >
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