From: mark (mark_at_imap-partners.net)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 14:20:09 PST
Alan Toops wrote:
> I run my .mac account as IMAP and use Entourage or Mail to
> download e-mail. My mac account has 4 folders: inbox, deleted
> messages, draft messages and sent messages.
OK. This supports my theory (that Mail V has problems with either large numbers of IMAP mailboxes and/or a relatively complicated IMAP mbox/container hierarchy). Doesn't prove it, but it supports
it.
You have an extremely simple IMAP hierarchy. Only four mailboxes
and (in all likelihood) none of these is both a container (folder) and a mailbox. I have lots of folders and lots of levels of hierarchy on .mac. I'm tempted to trash it all to test my theory once and for all.
But maybe somebody else will chip in first with some evidence that kills my theory stone dead.
> I have written several rules that sort my IMAP mail. I only
> download specific e-mail topics (newton talk being one of
> them). Otherwise the reside on the server.
But with such a simple mbox hierarchy, I'm guessing that your "rules" don't move messages around on the server (i.e. from one IMAP mailbox to another) ?
> Actually, as I understand IMAP e-mail it resides on the server
> unlike POP which apparently downloads to the mac or pc.
This is sort of true, but the real picture is a lot more complicated than this suggests.
mark.
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