Custom interval to check mail?

Question

Hi all,
is there a way to have Apple Mail check for email every 4 hours or so? I really want it to check for mail 3 times a day, but I do not want to have to set it to manually - I know that way I could not resist checking it more often (funny, isn't it?).
Maybe there is some plugin or app or terminal thing I could do? I'd appreciate if anyone knows of a way to do this...
Pit

Answer 1

you can set mail to check for Mail automatically every 5 min, 15min, 30 min or every hour in Mail preferences->general. there is no built in way to set longer intervals between automatic new mail checks. You can set them up yourself as follows:
Set Mail preferences to check for mail manually.
paste the following into Script Editor and save it as an application.
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
tell application "Mail" to check for new mail</pre>
then set up a launch daemon to run this app every 4 hours.
Use [Lingon|http://lingon.sourceforge.net> to make a daemon.
Message was edited by: V.K.