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Deter frequent Mail.app email checks
Authored by: leenoble_uk on Oct 20, '05 06:36:14AM

With a right mouse button you can still do it one click from any app using the dock menu. Click (hold) drag release.
You wanna hack that too?

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So, I said ... well, I can't actually remember exactly what I said. But it was one of the most enormously cruel and frighteningly witty put downs ever.



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Deter frequent Mail.app email checks
Authored by: tinker on Oct 21, '05 07:44:56AM
Actually, come to think of it, this is doable, though it's not exactly for the faint of heart. It requires the Developers' Tools (or Xtools) installation from the OS X DVDs. Once that's installed, use the context menu to show Mail's package contents, go to Resources/English.lproj, and open up MailViewer.nib. (It might not hurt to copy MailViewer.nib to the Desktop and work on the copy!) Once you've opened it, look for the window in the lower-left part of the screen with "File's Owner," "First Responder," etc. Double-click on "Dock Menu," click on the Get New Mail option, go to the edit menu and click Cut. The same can be done with the Mailbox / Check All New Mail option under MainMenu. A similar hack is described in more detail here.

There is a definite caveat emptor here: as usual, mucking with developers' tools when one is not a developer... well, it is its own reward, and the reward can be good or very bad. People more familiar with these tools might attest that following this procedure will corrupt your file structure, vaporize your hard disk, and make you sterile, and I'm in no position to argue. Happily, Interface Builder keeps a copy of the original as MailViewer~.nib, though you should surely keep your own copy of the original elsewhere in case things go south.

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Deter frequent Mail.app email checks
Authored by: tinker on Oct 21, '05 07:55:43AM

p.s. yes, I realize you were joking....



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