Comments on: On switching and choosing Apple Mail http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/26/on-switching-and-choosing-apple-mail/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:40:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/26/on-switching-and-choosing-apple-mail/#comment-740 Tim Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:00:35 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=265#comment-740 Yes, it's a problem. No doubt about it. Personally, I tackle it in two ways. First, I use Smart Mailboxes to find and display the emails that I need. This stops me clicking through large numbers of mailboxes that could otherwise be unsubscribed. There's a descripion of <a href="http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/11/18/got-some-things-done-with-apple-mail-pt-i/" rel="nofollow">how this works for me</a> on the site. You don't need to be into "Getting Things Done" to reap the benefits of this approach. Secondly, I use <a href="http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/08/08/mail-act-on-getting-sorted-saving-time/" rel="nofollow">Mail Act-on</a> for filing, again saving myself the hassle of neogtiating endless mailboxes when sorting mail. These steps help to ease the pain, but it is still a pain. :-( Yes, it’s a problem. No doubt about it.

Personally, I tackle it in two ways. First, I use Smart Mailboxes to find and display the emails that I need. This stops me clicking through large numbers of mailboxes that could otherwise be unsubscribed. There’s a descripion of how this works for me on the site. You don’t need to be into “Getting Things Done” to reap the benefits of this approach.

Secondly, I use Mail Act-on for filing, again saving myself the hassle of neogtiating endless mailboxes when sorting mail.

These steps help to ease the pain, but it is still a pain. :-(

]]> By: Ted Pavlic http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/10/26/on-switching-and-choosing-apple-mail/#comment-738 Ted Pavlic Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:35:08 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=265#comment-738 That's all fine, but it doesn't address what seems to me to be the key problem with using IMAP and Apple Mail: How do you unsubscribe from (that is, hide) folders? Long-time IMAP veterans will be very familiar with this functionality -- all other IMAP clients have it. Old archive folders or not-often-used folders can be hidden from view. However, in Apple Mail there is no way to do this. Because of this, I'm stuck using Thunderbird. I know there are Perl hacks out there that serve as local proxies that can hide folders from Apple Mail, but that isn't a sane solution. This really should be built into Apple Mail. Any thoughts? That’s all fine, but it doesn’t address what seems to me to be the key problem with using IMAP and Apple Mail: How do you unsubscribe from (that is, hide) folders?

Long-time IMAP veterans will be very familiar with this functionality — all other IMAP clients have it. Old archive folders or not-often-used folders can be hidden from view. However, in Apple Mail there is no way to do this. Because of this, I’m stuck using Thunderbird.

I know there are Perl hacks out there that serve as local proxies that can hide folders from Apple Mail, but that isn’t a sane solution. This really should be built into Apple Mail. Any thoughts?

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