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MacAttack89

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Oct 1, 2010
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I was wondering is there a way to close Mail App on mac and still somehow be notified when there is new mail to look at?
 
You might possibly be able to do something with fetchmail. You or a wise geek would have to study it well to figure out how to accomplish what you want.
 
I was wondering is there a way to close Mail App on mac and still somehow be notified when there is new mail to look at?

Do you mean close or quit? Why not just close it / hide it when you aren't using it? It'll be unnecessarily difficult to try and fetch mail with the application quit. If you use Gmail, you could use a menubar app that notifies when you have new mail. Then you could open Apple Mail to read and deal with it. But I don't see the point of quitting Mail at all if it's your main client.
 
I was looking for something that pop'd up on my screen and said new or mail or whatever, without having the mail app open, I just dont like leaving all these programs open all the time
 
I was looking for something that pop'd up on my screen and said new or mail or whatever, without having the mail app open, I just dont like leaving all these programs open all the time
There's no problem with leaving apps like Mail open all the time. It's not using significant resources just to check for new mail every minute.
 
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