Apple Mail has been locking up my system consistently when either receiving/syncing operations occur w/ IMAP mail. It's hard to trigger it but eventually I'll try to pull up a new message and.. bam. For it its just limited to IMAP, I'm not quite sure. Rebuilt the indexes.... Has anybody found a fix so Apple Mail plays nicely with several IMAP boxes?
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Apple Mail w/ IMAP just sucks
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Mail sends and receives to my IMAP accounts flawlessly...it is the folder management that sucks for me. I can't subscribe to or unsubscribe from any folders, and I can't set up custom folders for junk, deleted messages, sent messages, etc. Mail.app is just going to use the folders it wants to use, and I am going to have no choice but to look at them.
Strange - I use it with Fastmail.fm (as does everyone at my company) and it works great. Maybe it's just the Gmail implementation.
There is nothing to fix. A smart mailbox is not a mailbox. It is merely a list of messages that fit a certain criteria.
Problems Syncing Mail with Hotmail
I'm having an issue with getting Mail to play nice while syncing with my Hotmail account. I had it all set up and working flawlessly about six months ago. Then last month I activated FileVault. Since that time, Mail won't import from Hotmail. Mail won't even appear. If I open Mail, nothing happens except Mail appearing on the Menu bar. There is no way to get the actual program to appear on screen. Any thoughts on the fix, or what might be causing the problem?
iMac (Intel Core Duo)
I'm having an issue with getting Mail to play nice while syncing with my Hotmail account. I had it all set up and working flawlessly about six months ago. Then last month I activated FileVault. Since that time, Mail won't import from Hotmail. Mail won't even appear. If I open Mail, nothing happens except Mail appearing on the Menu bar. There is no way to get the actual program to appear on screen. Any thoughts on the fix, or what might be causing the problem?
iMac (Intel Core Duo)
apple mail sucks w/ imap
I have multiple imap accounts in mail, not .mac not gmail, but my own server. It just sucks, what else can I say. When I click on the little reply or forward icons, next to the message, it doesn't bring up my replies, I have to search through my sent emails...And then of course apple mail's search sucks! so I have to literally make note of the date, then scroll through my sent folder to find the message I sent as a reply.
I need a better mail app, period. Any suggestions?
I have multiple imap accounts in mail, not .mac not gmail, but my own server. It just sucks, what else can I say. When I click on the little reply or forward icons, next to the message, it doesn't bring up my replies, I have to search through my sent emails...And then of course apple mail's search sucks! so I have to literally make note of the date, then scroll through my sent folder to find the message I sent as a reply.
I need a better mail app, period. Any suggestions?
Apple Mail is bad
I have been sending messages like this to Apple twice before, to no avail whatsoever:
1) I use two SMTP servers, one at home, one at work. Thus I receive mails sent to both addresses. When I do an automatic reply, mail picks as SMTP server the one corresponding to the address where I received the mail. If I reply from work to a mail sent to my home address, Mail picks the wrong SMTP, and the mail sits in the outbox until i find out. Sometimes urgent mails sit in the outbox for days. Couldn't you guys change the script in a way that Mail toggles among all available SMTP servers in my settings, until it finds the one that is currently active? If there is a way to set Mail to do so in the current version, then it is certainly not straightforward.
2) When i find out that mail si attempting to send a mail from the damn wrong SMTP server and try to change it to the right one, Mail keeps trying the wrong one for MINUTES and fails to make the change. I literally have to QUIT the application and re-start it in order to make it do the right thing. Extremely irritating.
3) Very simply, could you make the outbox icon flash in the main window if there are unsent mails in it?
I have been sending messages like this to Apple twice before, to no avail whatsoever:
1) I use two SMTP servers, one at home, one at work. Thus I receive mails sent to both addresses. When I do an automatic reply, mail picks as SMTP server the one corresponding to the address where I received the mail. If I reply from work to a mail sent to my home address, Mail picks the wrong SMTP, and the mail sits in the outbox until i find out. Sometimes urgent mails sit in the outbox for days. Couldn't you guys change the script in a way that Mail toggles among all available SMTP servers in my settings, until it finds the one that is currently active? If there is a way to set Mail to do so in the current version, then it is certainly not straightforward.
2) When i find out that mail si attempting to send a mail from the damn wrong SMTP server and try to change it to the right one, Mail keeps trying the wrong one for MINUTES and fails to make the change. I literally have to QUIT the application and re-start it in order to make it do the right thing. Extremely irritating.
3) Very simply, could you make the outbox icon flash in the main window if there are unsent mails in it?
Apple Mail is pure merdaware. In the way Apple disregards consumer dissatisfaction, they remind me more and more of Windows.
OK, newbie. You would be much better served if you asked for help with your problem rather that kvetching while keeping silent about what is giving you trouble.
You are necro-replying to a user who also did not specify his problem. This Mac user has an assortment of email accounts--POP3, IMAP, and me.com--setup in Mail. I have had not a whiff of trouble with the IMAP accounts or any of the others.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Works fine for me. It was the easiest IMAP setup I've ever used. I use Gmail as well.
Make sure your GMail is set up to allow IMAP.
Make sure your GMail is set up to allow IMAP.
I have 3 gmail accounts, plus my mobile me account set up in Apple Mail... and it also works flawlessly for me. All of these accounts are set the same for all 4 of my Macs... and I get the identical synced view regardless of which Mac I use. I love it.
I agree with chronoto make sure that Gmail is set to allow IMAP. Also, use the recommended Apple Mail settings found in the Gmail documentation.
/Jim
I think Mail is great - I use it everyday with my MobileMe and university email accounts.
However, I *do* agree that Gmail kind of sucks with Mail, but Gmail kind of sucks with all email programs. Personally I just use Gmail's web interface, which is really good.
However, I *do* agree that Gmail kind of sucks with Mail, but Gmail kind of sucks with all email programs. Personally I just use Gmail's web interface, which is really good.
As an app, I like Mail, but the IMAP with gmail is pretty crappy for me too. Particularly sending attachments. I don't why it is so difficult but it is apparently. Watching my network monitor I can see a steady upload stream that stays active far longer than it should take to send a given attachment. I've pretty much stopped using Mail and just doing everything web-based since I have to send attachments pretty frequently.