Stopping check for mail 1

[NovaScotian]

Although neither of my personalities has "Check for mail every.." selected (because an AppleScript does that after Spamfire has checked for good mail) Eudora still checks. This happens even though Spamfire is not running, and I haven't figured out what triggers it.

Any hints of where to look?

 

[TonyGroves]

Are you sure it's checking mail and not connecting to download advertising? I used to have a problem where Eudora would regularly connect to adserver.eudora.com, until I told my proxy server to put a stop to it.

 

[NovaScotian]

I have the paid-up, no-ad version. Does it check too?

 

[TonyGroves]

I wouldn't rule it out. It certainly does when running in unpaid "light" mode (on Windows), which doesn't display ads at all.

You could check the archives at

http://sparky.listmoms.net,

which has some very good Eudora mailing lists. I seem to remember the subject being discussed several times on their Eudora/Windows list.

 

[NovaScotian]

I have just discovered the cause. The latest version of Spamfire has a daemon that runs in the background under cron so that unless you want to see your spam, Spamfire need not be running. Whether this is so depends on a Preferences setting and it defaults to being selected. Turned off, the behavior stops, so the paid-up version of Eudora for Mac OS X doesn't check for ads.