[onlyone-jc]

Hi.

Does anybody know how to get Mail to Hide at startup? I've placed it as a Login item, and checked the 'Hide' box. It launches fine, but it doesn't seem to want to hide.

Is there any way 'round this, at all?

Thanks.

[Nexus5]

Originally Posted by onlyone-jc 

Hi.

Does anybody know how to get Mail to Hide at startup? I've placed it as a Login item, and checked the 'Hide' box. It launches fine, but it doesn't seem to want to hide.

Is there any way 'round this, at all?

Thanks.

No way. Its an nasty bug Apple "implemented" a long time ago. Everytime Apple releases an update on Mail this is the first thing I am testing, but no fix on this for years now.
This bug will also be present in 10.5!

nexus5.

[onlyone-jc]

Originally Posted by Nexus5 

This bug will also be present in 10.5!

Well, hopefully not. Let's be positive!

onlyone-jc.

[onlyone-jc]

So there's definitely no way to do this? No third-party software to force-hide it?

Thanks,
onlyone-jc.

[JazzCatDRP]

Try this in Script Editor:

tell application "Mail" to activate
tell application "System Events"
set visible of process "Mail" to false
end tell

Save it as an application, then have that run at login instead of Mail.app.

[Big Mac]

Why do people hide Mail anyway? I don't think I have ever done it.

[JazzCatDRP]

Personally, I don't hide Mail, I just close out the window

[onlyone-jc]

Thanks, JazzCatDRP! That seemed to do the trick!

Although, it wasn't 'silent', as the normal 'Hide' option would be. Since, Mail did pop up. But, it did then successfully hide itself.

I guess this is the only work-around there is, until Apple resolve the issue.

Thanks again,
onlyone-jc.

[onlyone-jc]

Is there any way to tell the script not to show itself in the Dock, at all? I've managed to do this in the past with the likes of X11. But, I'm not sure if this is possible with un-packaged applications/scripts.

Thanks,
onlyone-jc.