Comments on: Making Apple’s Mail work with IMAP

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:48:39 +0000

Brilliant!!! All working after many months of frustration!!! Thanks.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:20:54 +0000

Hi Markus,

If you haven’t already, you can also right-click (or control-click) in an empty area of the blue sidebar and select, “Use Small Mailbox Icons”. It helps get everything closer to the top.

By: Markus K.

Markus K. — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:04:31 +0000

Hi Paul,

thanks for your info. Looks like they’ve removed it. The current view is not too bad, even though the other one was more practical. With the new view, I find myself forgetting about archiving incoming mails in my subfolders – I currently have 376 mails in my inbox ;)

At least I’ve found out that you can drag the turn-down folder to a location more close to the top. Makes it a bit better, but not perfect.

Regards,
Markus

By: paul

paul — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:30:54 +0000

Hi Markus,

I haven’t seen the big @ symbol in mail 3. I don’t know if Apple took that away.

For me, standard folders such as Sent, Drafts, Trash, etc… show up at the top of the list under those main headings, but any non-standard folder that I’ve added to an account shows at the bottom of the list under a turn-down folder that is just labeled with the email address.

I haven’t seen it any other way in Mail 3. That probably isn’t much help, sorry.

By: Markus K.

Markus K. — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:21:32 +0000

Hi Paul,

I had the @ symbol folder layout when I used Apple Mail 2.x and loved it. But since Mail 3.x is out, I cannot seem to recreate it. My subfolders now appear on the bottom of the folder list, below Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash, Junk.

I want my @ symbol back :(

My IMAP prefix is correctly set to INBOX.

Does it work for you in Apple Mail 3?

By: Paul Connolley

Paul Connolley — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:06:36 +0000

Glad to have been of service.

Any time.

By: Johan Tegin

Johan Tegin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:07:13 +0000

Thanks,
Especially the imap path hint was great. My imap-supplier had hundreds of mailing lists that i couldn’t get rid of until i saw this page. Nice layout btw…

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:03:21 +0000

Thanks for the great tip. This has been annoying me to no end, but now it is solved. This with the SSL’d goodness of the new grid server keeps me loving Media Temple.

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:25:34 +0000

Does anyone have any tips on archiving mail when using IMAP accounts? I have multiple IMAP’d email accounts, and like to save attachments and email records on my harddrive for reference purposes (we have many clients, and it’s a good insurance policy). I don’t want to be archiving emails within IMAP, since it’ll eat through my disk space too quickly; however, when I try to move an email from an IMAP folder to a folder on my local drive (aka: @Reference), I get an error message that it can not move the email. Any tips??

By: RyanC

RyanC — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:34:24 +0000

I also noticed that until I put more than just 1 account into Mail, it just plain refused to show my complete folder list, with folders disappearing randomly, and all sorts of other troublesome behaviour!

By: ubi de feo

ubi de feo — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:12:36 +0000

actually this tip saved my nerves.
to make it clear.
this issue only happens on Grid Servers, as I just switched and never had this kind of problem on MediaTemple (4 years uses).
by the way this solves the issues, so…

thank you

ciao.ubi

By: Quality Peoples » Blog Archive » Media Temple Webmail

Quality Peoples » Blog Archive » Media Temple Webmail — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:22:22 +0000

[...] That’s great! So I set up Apple Mail to use IMAP, cuz that’s how I roll. I even got IMAP to save drafts and sent mail, courtesy of a tutorial from One Digital Life (thank Paul!). To make sure my drafts and sent mail were being synced with my web mail I logged on to Media Temple’s wicked “AJAX Webmail”. They give you 4 options: [...]

By: Walt

Walt — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 22:00:14 +0000

Paul and Paul: Thank you both for the excellent tips! I switched over one of my email accounts from POP to IMAP and it’s working perfectly.

By: paul

paul — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:43:39 +0000

Paul Connolley – Thanks for the tip about the Path Prefix. I contacted my host (media temple) about it, and they told me it wasn’t necessary to put it in. But, I did try adding INBOX as the prefix, and it did change things around. It moved my folders from under the icon in the inbox, to their own spot at the bottom of the sidebar under a new @ symbol box. After looking around on the internet last night, I discovered that having them display under their own @ box, is how it should be. I’m trying to get clarification from media temple about this. I’ll be updating the post as soon as I hear back from them. Thanks again.

By: Paul Connolley

Paul Connolley — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:56:05 +0000

You should also note that you are supposed to specify the IMAP folder as given by your email provider. Mail.app will not “function correctly” if you don’t specify the IMAP Path Prefix in your advanced settings. It is usually “INBOX”. You’ll find that will help. If you are still having problems with IMAP then it is probably a bad configuration on the server rather than something that you haven’t done.

Trust me. I manage an IMAP server (de temps en temps). They can be troublesome.

By: jamie

jamie — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:49:23 +0000

Similar story here:
Mail.app, IMAP, and Trash woes
http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/002420.shtml

By: mungler

mungler — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:44:34 +0000

to be fair, how is Mail.app supposed to know which folders to use if you dont tell it first?

i agree that it could be a little clearer that you need to do that, tho.

By: Non Stop Mac

Non Stop Mac — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:15:41 +0000

Making Appleâ€™s Mail work with IMAP…

Paul Burd writes: “After setting up the account through my host, and setting up the IMAP account in Appleâ€™s Mail, I found that items werenâ€™t being synced as they should. Anything I did through the webmail client did show up……