Possible to have mail start hidden at boot?

[mjgunn]

I would like mail to start at boot and start checking my mail for me, but not have the mailbox window pop up. Is it possible to do this? I picked "hide" in the accounts prefs, but it still loads anyway.

 

[MoparShaha]

Yeah, this is a bug with Tiger. I have submitted a feedback report to Apple at every Tiger update since 10.4, but they apparently don't care.

This frustrates me to no end.

 

[pianoman]

this frustrates me to such an end that it is one of the main reasons i don't use mail anymore. AFAIK, there is no fix.

 

[Allotriophagy]

Possibly make a little Applescriptlet for your start-up items? I got the following from here.

--Hide App 
tell app "System Events" 
tell app "Mail" to activate 
tell process "Mail" to keystroke "h" using command down 
end tell 
end tell

Something along those lines might work?

 

[mjgunn]

Forgot to post, I used the script, its working nicely, thanks for the help