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[coolfactor]

In regards to Mail.app not seeing your Sent, Drafts and other folders (which are subfolders of Inbox), you need to set your IMAP prefix to "INBOX". Sometimes, this is set for your automatically, but obviously it wasn't for you, so go to Preferences, Accounts, and set that, and all should be merry.

[canadrian]

Actually, Mail deals with those Inbox sub-folders pretty well; in the account setting in Mail, click on the Advanced tab, and change the IMAP Path Prefix to INBOX. Now you're golden.

[coolfactor]

Strange that the Comments count at the top of this article doesn't reflect the number of comments actually posted. Is that a known issue? There's 2 comments as of this post.

[coolfactor]

(Ah, using this comments form (embedded in the article page) actually corrected the issue I stated in my last post. Sorry to hijack the thread.)
Back on topic... I've experienced issues with Mail under Leopard. On random occasions, when I send a message, it doesn't get saved to my Sent folder, so I have no record of ever sending the message. Has anyone else seen this? I use IMAP for all of my folders. Also, sometimes a copy of the message stays in the Drafts folder, even after sending it.

[flybynight]

http://www.apple.com...dback/mail.html

[coolfactor]

@flybynight,

Yes, that feedback form can be accessed (when using Leopard) by going to the Mail menu and choosing "Provide Mail Feedback..." I've used it many times. It's great that the Mail team is providing a quick way to send in feedback, and I wish more apps did that, but I can imagine that it creates a lot of work sifting through the feedback.

[Walt_Basil]

I also use IMAP for my three main email accounts using Mail, Outlook 2003, iPhone and web clients. One is work, the other two are personal (.mac and my own domain). You may want to look into your own domain so that you can call the shots when it comes to how your own mail servers work. It costs a wee bit more but the satisfaction of having everything work the way you want is worth it in my opinion. Plus you can run Spamassassin!

[fhirsch]

One simple thing that Mail does not do(and Eudora does) is to send unjunked mail to the correct mailbox.
Something else that Mail does not do is have the option of sending images either inline or not.

[SpaceCat]

Maybe it'd be worth your while to try out Gyazmail as well? My paid IMAP account also places everything as a subfolder of the Inbox, and Gyazmail has no issues with it. Thunderbird does pretty well with it, too, and also has additional features like the ability to see how much of your storage quota you're using, though I eventually switched away because I wanted integration with Address Book & the OS X dictionary back.

[snej]

Um, did you try setting the "IMAP Path Prefix" to "INBOX" in the Advanced tab of the account settings? That works fine for me on Dreamhost, which has a similar IMAP setup.
That discussion thread has nothing to do with the problem you're describing. It's talking about automatically detecting new messages in IMAP folders that were added by other mail clients (or server-side fileters.)

[Jon Seff]

I've already tried the Inbox path...it doesn't solve the problem.

I do have hosting on Dreamhost as well, I was just hoping I wouldn't have to change my forwarding setup and start using a different mailbox and the like. But that's a next logical step...

[yomacdaddy]

I am not sure I understand why Thunderbird is not a more popular email client. At least I wonder why it does not receive favorable mention in reviews and comparisons on Mail and Entourage. I have used all three applications and prefer Thunderbird. First, Mail has corrupted my email file twice beyond recovery. I have read that others are having similar problems with the recent Leopard version. I never had that issue with Entourage. But, both Mail and Entourage lack the ability to create tables within an email. Thunderbird has this feature and I use it all the time to apply uniformity to lists of info. Sure, I could attach a document with the table of info in it. But, that is inconvenient and it interrupts the flow of the document. For me, tables are as important a feature as bullet points. All three programs have that feature. But, I am surprised that only Thunderbird has Table creation and management built in.

[coolfactor]

Jon,

The prefix is case-sensitive, so it needs to be INBOX, not Inbox. I experienced exactly what you describe just a week ago, and setting this prefix solved the problem. So far, Mail has handled all IMAP servers I've thrown at it.