Mail.app help needed please :)

[mustgroove]

I've got some confabulating issues with Mail.app... I'd like to start using this over Thunderbird because of Address Book integration among other things, but some stuff is really bugging me!!! 🙂

The mail account I'd like to access is an IMAP account (coz sometimes I need to access my email from a machine other than my own)... The folder structure is like this:

INBOX
------Inbox.Drafts
------Inbox.Junk
------Inbox.Sent
------Inbox.Trash

Basically, I've got 2 problems:

1) When sending mail, Mail.app doesn't copy the sent email to the Inbox.Sent folder... how can I make it do this?

2) When viewing the Inbox.Sent folder, I'd like the "From" column to be displayed... but Mail doesn't seem to want to keen your column settings on a per-folder basis like Thunderbird (or any other mail app i've ever used), so that when I go back to the Inbox, the "From" column is still showing rather that the "To" column... how can I set up columns to keep my per-folder preferences??

Any help would be very greatly appreciated 🙂

 

[mad jew]

Select the your Sent mailbox and then from the Mailbox menu, select Use This Mailbox for Sent. Did that make sense? 🙂

 

[mustgroove]

Works like a charm 🙂 Thanks dude...

What about the column view thingy? Please tell me you have another quick fix like that 😀

 

[mad jew]

Well, the Sent folder should now show the To column. I'm a bit confused by your post. Do you want it to show the From column too (your name)? Sorry. 😱

 

[mustgroove]

You're right, it's fixed now... thanks 🙂

I'm a wee bit confused by the way Mail does a lot of things, but I think I've almost got it licked now... 🙂

 

[mad jew]

No worries mate. It's different but I find it quite intuitive. As with the rest of OSX, just think to yourself how it should be done and often it's the right method. 🙂