Leopard Mail’s elegant exchange folder solution

Having recently posted four work-arounds to stop Mail subscribing to the public folders in Microsoft Exchange Server, I am delighted to discover that soon none of them will be necessary.

Leopard Mail has an elegant built-in solution to this problem.

Mail Stamps developer Andrew Escobar has posted a detailed account of how the new feature will work.

When an Exchange account is highlighted, choosing the “Get Account Info” item in the contextual menu item (or ⌘-I) pops up a new window that allows users to unsubscribe to the public folders:

Problem solved. And another upside?

After the fix, I never have to deal with Public Folders again. While I’m still using Tiger on a daily basis, once Leopard ships in the spring of 2007, I’ll finally be able to ditch Entourage and use Mail as my sole email client.

Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, exchange server, leopard mail, mail.app, microsoft, public folders, workaround

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5 Responses to “Leopard Mail’s elegant exchange folder solution”

1. Scott Boone says:
   February 1st, 2007 at 2:41 am

   Let’s also hope that Apple does the SAME THING for IMAP!

2. Anton says:
   February 1st, 2007 at 4:19 am

   Does this also apply to regular IMAP folders, that we will be able to unsubscibe from folders? This is a feature I have wished for since I started using Mail.app.

3. Adam says:
   February 1st, 2007 at 6:25 am

   Wow, thanks for the heads up. This is the best tech news I’ve heard all day and my decision to upgrade to Leopard just got a lot easier. I love Mail.app, and have become used to the occasional unconscienable pauses while it loads my university’s 6000 public folders and 100,000 messages in the background, but I still loathe the wait times. Glad to hear someone at Apple is paying attention.

4. Ron says:
   February 1st, 2007 at 6:51 am

   But will it support Exchange 2003 Servers using RPC over HTTPs. Not al server have IMAP/IMAPS enabled that are running Exchange.

5. Jay says:
   April 16th, 2007 at 10:45 am

   I just had to migrate over to Exchange server at work… all my mail sync’ed up ok but I lost all my dates — all mail was re-dated to the date of sync. Obviously this makes it completely useless.. anyone know why that happened and what to do about it??

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