MailFetch 2.0.1
Posted: March 26th, 1999, 11:00 am
Download: http://archive.info-mac.org/inet/mail-fetch.hqx
MailFetch is a utility for America Online users. It performs several
functions, and *all* AOL users should find it to be a significant convenience,
time-saver and frustration-reducer. It will be particularly useful to those
who handle a lot of e–mail correspondence using AOL.
With MailFetch you can:
* With a single click, run an "Auto AOL" session (sending and receiving e-
mail) and be notified if you have new mail, without bringing AOL to the front.
* With a single click, have AOL brought to the front and have your "Offline
Mail" window opened.
* Precisely schedule background Auto AOL sessions with a variety of options.
* Log on to AOL version 2.x, 3.x or 4.x while AOL is running in the background
(not normally possible with AOL 2 or 3).
* Have AOL 2.x or 3.x continue to redial indefinitely until it connects.
* Have an Auto AOL session run whenever you start up your Mac.
* More!
MailFetch performs these feats primarily by automating various America Online
functions, so that a single click in MailFetch triggers a series of actions in
AOL, without even making AOL your front application.
Here's how I use MailFetch:
Whenever I feel that I'd like to check my AOL e-mail, I simply switch to
MailFetch and click the "OK" button. Then I go back to whatever I was doing.
Total time of the interruption caused by this "I think I'll check my e-mail"
decision: about 1 second. Over the next few minutes AOL works in the
background, completing its dial-up and connection process, sending my outgoing
mail and downloading any incoming mail. If I have new messages, MailFetch puts
up a small floating window that reads "You have new mail on AOL". By clicking
inside this window, I am taken to AOL's "Off-line Mail" window, where my new
messages are listed.
Other users might prefer to use MailFetch's scheduling options. In that case,
you can have an Auto AOL session run at regular intervals as frequently as
every half hour (at times you precisely determine). The "You have new mail"
window will appear if new mail is downloaded. Otherwise, you don't even have
to think about AOL, or switch it to the front, or navigate its menus and
windows.
MailFetch is a utility for America Online users. It performs several
functions, and *all* AOL users should find it to be a significant convenience,
time-saver and frustration-reducer. It will be particularly useful to those
who handle a lot of e–mail correspondence using AOL.
With MailFetch you can:
* With a single click, run an "Auto AOL" session (sending and receiving e-
mail) and be notified if you have new mail, without bringing AOL to the front.
* With a single click, have AOL brought to the front and have your "Offline
Mail" window opened.
* Precisely schedule background Auto AOL sessions with a variety of options.
* Log on to AOL version 2.x, 3.x or 4.x while AOL is running in the background
(not normally possible with AOL 2 or 3).
* Have AOL 2.x or 3.x continue to redial indefinitely until it connects.
* Have an Auto AOL session run whenever you start up your Mac.
* More!
MailFetch performs these feats primarily by automating various America Online
functions, so that a single click in MailFetch triggers a series of actions in
AOL, without even making AOL your front application.
Here's how I use MailFetch:
Whenever I feel that I'd like to check my AOL e-mail, I simply switch to
MailFetch and click the "OK" button. Then I go back to whatever I was doing.
Total time of the interruption caused by this "I think I'll check my e-mail"
decision: about 1 second. Over the next few minutes AOL works in the
background, completing its dial-up and connection process, sending my outgoing
mail and downloading any incoming mail. If I have new messages, MailFetch puts
up a small floating window that reads "You have new mail on AOL". By clicking
inside this window, I am taken to AOL's "Off-line Mail" window, where my new
messages are listed.
Other users might prefer to use MailFetch's scheduling options. In that case,
you can have an Auto AOL session run at regular intervals as frequently as
every half hour (at times you precisely determine). The "You have new mail"
window will appear if new mail is downloaded. Otherwise, you don't even have
to think about AOL, or switch it to the front, or navigate its menus and
windows.