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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Retrieving Email Messages

To read your messages, you have to retrieve them from the computer (called the incoming mail server) that runs your email account. You can retrieve messages manually or automatically.

Manually retrieving messages tells Mail, "Check for new messages right now." Automatically retrieving messages tells Mail, "Every few minutes, check for new messages and let me know how many new messages you find."

Manually Retrieving Messages

Generally, you'll want Mail to check for new messages periodically, such as every 15 minutes. However, if you're expecting a message and don't feel like waiting for Mail to retrieve it automatically, you can check for new messages immediately.

To retrieve messages manually, you have several choices:

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