Hawk Wings » sent http://www.hawkwings.net Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:44:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 A Freudian slip http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/05/freudian-slip-mailapps-thrash-folder/ http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/05/freudian-slip-mailapps-thrash-folder/#comments Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:01:15 +0000 Tim Gaden http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/05/freudian-slip-mailapps-thrash-box/ 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.humour, mail.app, apple mail, imap, special folders, sent, drafts, junk, trash, IMAPSimilar Posts:

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