A Freudian slip

ThrashingEvery now and then you run across something in NetNewsWire that makes you chuckle.

I love Mail.app to death, but I am willing to admit that its IMAP support is less robust than it could be.

So the clever irony of this Freudian slip in a blogger’s headline struck me at once:

Mailappthrashing

Sometimes Mail does frantically spin its wheels without getting anywhere. It needs a thrash folder.

However, the post he references on setting up Mail’s special IMAP folders for Sent, Drafts, Trash and Junk mail is excellent. Not knowing about this is a source of frustration to a lot of people on the Apple Discussion Boards and elsewhere.

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4 Responses to “A Freudian slip”

  1. Chu Yeow says:

    As the aforementioned blogger, I don’t really understand what you are getting at heh. Bad English somewhere? I really do mean to point out how to point Mail.app to use my specified Sent and Drafts folders (and not the Thrash folders), but I got lazy typing the quick ‘Aside’ blog post and took what was in the title of the blog post I referenced. Let me in on my blunder :)

  2. Tim Gaden says:

    It’s not a blunder. It was a good joke, a play on words about Mail’s trash folder and its well-known and much-loved ability to hang when connecting to an IMAP server.

    Good one. I salute you.

  3. Jorge says:

    I’ve read this 5 times already and can’t figure it out what you’re talking about. Then again, English is not my native language either.

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