How do I get my email client to check mail and quit as soon as it's finished downloading?

Asked by dstringer (8

) July 31st, 2009

I’m running OSX on an older Macintosh G5 computer. I’ve found that leaving my Mail program open slows down my system.

After Mail.app finishes downloading, it plays a tone and then remains open. I want the program to quit as soon as it’s finished downloading mail so the system resources used by Mail.app can be freed up for other uses, even if I forget to manually shut down Mail.

Many thanks for any suggestions.

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Hmm I don’t think there is a way to do this unless someone has created a plug-in for the Mail app. You could try using the Automator. Google automator workflows that are related to Mail. (Search it in Spotlight)

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