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New iBook, but really hating Apple's Mail app + IMAP

By jeremy - Posted on 11 April 2005

I recently bought a used G3/800 iBook (from a very trusted source) and as this is my first time working with Apple's Mail app and I have to say that I'm really hating what it does to IMAP.  Maybe I'm missing something but near as I can tell it flat doesn't allow you to subscribe to specific folders.

Every single Mail app that I have used in the last two years (Evolution, Thunderbird, Outlook) has had better IMAP functionality and why the hell doesn't Apple's Mail app use the .mailboxlist like every other freaking IMAP app?   Near as I can tell it only allows you to  read only the inbox, or everything in my entire home directory.  I can reproduce the problem on Debian and Solaris boxes running different version of the IMAP server, both of which work fine with Thunderbird and Evolution.

Has anyone gotten subscribed folders to work with IMAP+SSL on OSX 10.3 Mail app?  Hopefully either I'm completely missing something or the Mail app with Tiger will have a hell of a lot better IMAP functionality.

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Submitted by jeremy on Wed, 2005-04-13 08:16.

Through a great deal of trial and error I figured out that you have to put just 'mail' into the IMAP path field. It has to be 'mail' and not 'mail/' or ~jeremy/mail and you have to set it right the first time or you have to delete the account and re-create it.

I was not able to change the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 2005-06-24 23:52.

I was not able to change the IMAP path field?

A quick glance through the help section seems to imply that you should use POP and just don't delete the messages off of the server, or only under certain conditions. I was having the same problems, but now this works like I expected IMAP to.

Did you find out how to fix this problem?
Submitted by gc on Mon, 2005-11-28 12:33.

Hi Jeremy!

I have the same annoying problem you have! For exemple, when I send messages from Mail, I can't see those messages on the server via webmail or when I use my account via Thunderbird on Windows. Even more, I can't see the messages in Mail!!! I decided to use Thunderbird, but i would like to use Mail.app. Did you find out how to fix this problem or there's no way to do it?

Regards,
Guilherme Chapiewski
gc@vialink.com.br
Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

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