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10.3: Use Mail's improved offline account handling Apps
I use the same PowerBook at home and at work. Due to firewall issues, I can't access my home e-mail ISP from work and at home, I can't access my work e-mail. Thus in Mail.app, I always had to use the "Get mail from XXXX" menu rather than the more convenient "Get Mail" button, which would try to collect from both places and get into a long time-out every time.

In Panther, a new Mail.app menu items allow you to (easily) toggle which sets of e-mail boxes you want the Get Mail button to use. To remove an account from collection, just go to the menu Mailbox -> Online Status and take the accounts you can't reach offline.

Actually it's simpler than that! Just press the Get Mail button with all the accounts enabled (Mailbox -> Go Online). After Mail tries once and fails to reach an account, it will take it offline for you and display a small lightning bolt next to the InBox for that account. Clicking that lightning bolt will restore the account to being collected the next time you press Get Mail.

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10.3: Use Mail's improved offline account handling
Authored by: Beernd on Nov 16, '03 04:14:02PM

I wouldn't say Mail's been improved when offline. Oddly enough, Mail will access neither my local imapd nor my local smtpd unless I'm connected to the net: I can't send mail to postfix and I can't access my mail on UW IMAP that's running on localhost, whether I call it localhost or 127.0.0.1. When I connect to the net, all is suddenly well again. What can I do about this? Both Pine and Eudora don't seem to have this problem.
Sorry if this is somewhat off topic.

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10.3: Use Mail's improved offline account handling
Authored by: erik.sherk on Nov 30, '03 12:43:04PM

Hi, did you ever get an answer to this? I too am running an imap
deamon on localhost and woul like to check mail while offline.



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10.3: Use Mail's improved offline account handling
Authored by: TvE on Nov 30, '03 03:54:38PM

I would think that this is related (though unlogical!) to a simialir problem I had while trying to log into a local Mac OS X server (running as a NetInfo parent) without an ethernet cable connected to the Mac - I was unable to login as anything else than root - this because it resolves the domaine name to the IP number...



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