Over at Rixstep 
, the blogger is in a fiesty mood. But in the midst of his claims about “a lot of buggy code in Mail.app” and how “Apple never respond with fixes”, he does raise a good point.
Snow Leopard, and Leopard before it, are not every good at deleting draft emails.
Its auto-save function leaves orphaned messages behind in its cache that are not registered in your Drafts folder (or on your IMAP server).
You can try this out for yourself.
First check your Drafts folder in Apple Mail and make sure that it looks empty.
Then open up your ~/Library/Mail folder, navigate to the Draft folder of your email account and open up the “Messages” folder. Although the folder shows iteslf empty in mail.app, in fact there are lots of auto-saved drafts in there!
Now if you are security conscious, or your work has particularly strict data management policies, then this is clearly a bad thing.
Otherwise, it’s just an annoying thing. They don’t do any harm but, still, Mail.app should be smarter than that.
Fortunately, the solution recommended by Rixstep–”you’ll have to go to the command line regularly to remove the orphans”–is not the only option.
There is a much easier way.
To remove the ghosts all you have to do is highlight the Drafts folder in Mail’s list of mailboxes on the left, and then select the Rebuild option from the Mailbox menu.
Poof! They’re gone.
Well, they are gone for the moment. You will need to do this again and again if the bug troubles you. And that’s the annoying part.
To make sure that is worked for you, you can check back in the Drafts folder of your Mail folder.
Mine looks good:
Msgpush.com is a new web service that takes advantage of the iPhone 3.0 software to offer instant alerts on the iPhone when email arrives in your inbox. 
As MailTags forges it way towards an official Version 2.2, Scott Morrison has released the fourth public beta of the plugin.
Some elements are now split off as optional “extras” — plug-ins for the plug-in, so to speak — which promises a more efficient, more flexible, more user-customisable future. 
Hmmm…. Late to the party on this one, but still worth posting. 
If you ever stop blogging for a bit due to an insane period in your Real Life, you will notice that eventually collections of interesting things begin to pile up in your inbox.
Michael Rothwell has written the code of his IMAP-IDLE plugin from the ground up to produce version 1.06 of his IMAP-IDLE which brings the “push mail” function to Mail.app.
The writer of 
