Thanks for this post. I’ve been pulling my hair out trying to properly set-up IMAP on my multiple Macs. Argh. Your post, and some of the subsequent comments from your bright readership, have helped clear up a few mysteries.

I do have one question, that I hope you can answer (eh, promptly!):

I have multiple company email account (rene@, info@, etc.), and in my pre-IMAP world, I had three folders set-up (Clients, Freelancers, and Vendors) at the same level as my inbox. I also had a few SmartFolders set-up.

Now, to keep those sync’d, it’s my understanding that I’d have to recreate those folders under a specific email account (i.e., rene@). But my ‘Client’ folder will have 20 or 30 active clients (in subfolders), and I need to drop emails in to them from various accounts (I’ve vacillated between using rules for this and leaving them in my Inbox until I’ve dealt with them).

How can I have the same folder structure and sync w/IMAP?

Your help is appreciated,

R

Thanks for this post — I had a problem with SpamSieve: It’s using a local folder called “spam”. On the IMAP server (MediaTemple) was another “spam” folder, but they didn’t sync, so I deleted the local one and changed the “SpamSieve” rule in Mail.app to use the IMAP folder. Works great!

worst of all in mail.app 3.0 they have messed it up even worse
the use folder as option is no longer there so now in my fastmail accounts i have both apple folders and fastmail folder for sent and drafts, just awful

i like how easy mail is to set-up, but i hate the limited functionality,

back to mulberry (http://www.mulberrymail.com/) for me, awfully complicated to set up, but at least once set up everything works as imap should work