[X Newbies] Switching to Mail finally

[David Crandon]

Thanks Gretchen.

David

Gretchen Hayman wrote:
> 
> On Sunday, May 4, 2003, at 15:15 US/Central, David Crandon wrote:
> > I seem to remember hearing that Mail has difficulty handling large
> > folders of email. Is this in terms of the number of messages, or the
> > folders size? My biggest folder is about 3500 messages/70 megabytes.
> 
> I have both large size (170MB) and large number (5000+) and don't have
> problems with either.  The one with 5000+ takes closer to a full second
> than other mailboxes with fewer mails; however, it's never long enough
> that I feel like I'm waiting.
> 
> > Is is possible to pickup email from different email accounts (from the
> > same ISP) without quitting and restarting Mail for each one? I have to
> > do this with Netscape Communicator.
> 
> I don't see why not.  You would just have to set up accounts for each
> in Mail > Preferences > Accounts.  Under the Advanced menu for each,
> there are options to "enable this account" and "include when
> automatically checking for mail" that you may or may not want enabled.
> 
> Gretchen
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