About a month ago, I decided I should make use of iCal to do more than use up disk space. I lead a rather boring, non-random life style; every second and third Tuesday night is a MUG event, every Wednesday is another, Fridays are usually for some simple music editing for a coming Sunday event, etc. But there are also birthdays of friends that I seem to forget until my beautiful wife reminds me.
So, not really wanting to replace my wife's built-in 'calendar' I opened up iCal and played with it for a while. It's easy to set up repeating reminders and just as easy to do those one-of events. I'm sure most of you already know much more about the program than I do. But...
Upon waking up my iMac in the last month, I occasionally saw that Mail was sitting there waiting for me to read messages. I don't normally use Mail for that purpose, stubbornly hanging on to Eudora!
I finally realized, however, that all the messages that ended up in Mail where now deleted from the servers and I could either forward any important ones and quickly quit mail or figure out some other way to transfer them.
Then the 'light bulb' lit up and I realized that iCal was opening Mail to send the reminders I had set up! Unfortunately, I don't see any way to make iCal change that behavior, it's prefs are amazingly brief. The only thing I could think of to correct this was to set my prefs in Mail to
not delete messages from the servers.
Am I missing something in either/both programs that could make them work more as I want?
Either way, it's not much of a problem, just wondering...
