Mail.app being stupid

phaxx

I have multiple accounts in Mail. I have multiple IMAP mailboxes under some of these. Email is sorted into these other mailboxes by my procmail rules on the server. I also use mutt (unix text mail client) to access my mail if I'm away from my main machine.

The problem is that Mail.app doesn't notice if I get new mail into one of the IMAP mailboxes. It'll notice if I get mail to the main inbox, but to make it cop on that I have new mail in another, I have to make Mail display it. (click the mailbox and display it's contents)

Removing my procmail filtering and using Mail's 'rules' to filter it isn't an option.

I know about the "include when automatically checking for new mail" option, but this only applies to the main mailbox under each of my mail accounts, not ALL mailboxes.

Note that there is a distinction between a mail account and a mail box, I'm not using these terms interchangably.

Any ideas?

Hugh_C

phaxx wrote:

Email is sorted into these other mailboxes by my procmail rules on the server.

This is why. New messages will only show up in the IMAP mailboxes if Mail.app itself puts it there. Otherwiae Mail.app is blissfully unanware.

phaxx wrote:

Removing my procmail filtering and using Mail's 'rules' to filter it isn't an option.

As a matter of interest, why? Where si the server and are you running it yourself? Is procmail good at excising junk?

There's probably some sort of AppleScript magic you can do to automatically refresh the IMAP mailboxen, thus showing their new contents.

hc

phaxx

I have a friend working for Apple doing tech support. I asked him about it, he asked around, and eventually the issue reached the Mail engineers. They know about the problem, and apparently it's on the list of things they'll fix eventually.

I insist on using procmail to filter my mail because I use mutt (console email client) when I don't have the powerbook with me. All my mail is in the right directories, all filtered properly by mailing list.

It could, of course, be done with Mail, but that means all my email is in a mess until Mail connects and moves it into the right mailboxes.

They're both Irish servers and I control both. I don't use it for filtering junk, just seperating mailing lists and a few automatic mails from cron jobs and the like.

I dunno, I'm very picky.

Hugh_C

phaxx wrote:

I insist on using procmail to filter my mail because I use mutt (console email client) when I don't have the powerbook with me. All my mail is in the right directories, all filtered properly by mailing list.

It could, of course, be done with Mail, but that means all my email is in a mess until Mail connects and moves it into the right mailboxes.

They're both Irish servers and I control both. I don't use it for filtering junk, just seperating mailing lists and a few automatic mails from cron jobs and the like.

I dunno, I'm very picky.

I now use gmail exclusively for mailing lists, and use Mail.app as a client for accessing it. I wouldn't use gmail for anything else considering the access that feds or whoever allegedly have. I have an enormous amount of invites, if anyone should want one (or many).

hc