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.
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.
No, there is not. Plus it defeats the entire purpose of having Mail closed. You could use GrowlMail and close Mail's window, which would have the effect you seem to be looking for.
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