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Using an IMAP account with Mail.app revisited
Authored by: prk on Feb 17, '03 10:20:38AM

~/Mail

I guess I should expect people that are new to unix and at least IMAP to not know this. But, why wouldn't apple set the default to ~/Mail? Thats what it's suppose to be. Gesh.



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Using an IMAP account with Mail.app revisited
Authored by: CaptCosmic on Feb 17, '03 12:02:46PM

Possibly because on .Mac accounts, Mail Folders aren't in ~/Mail. They are in ~. And the same may be true of other mail servcies out there as well.

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Using an IMAP account with Mail.app revisited
Authored by: acdha on Feb 17, '03 02:47:33PM

It's not standard and would break anyone using a different IMAP server and even uw-imapd users with different server configurations. People using modern mail servers which use namespaces to provide the appropriate path don't need it, either.



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Using an IMAP account with Mail.app revisited
Authored by: Benjamin Evans on Feb 18, '03 05:35:31AM

Not necessarily. With my ISP I use '~/mail/', and this being on a Solaris machine, '~/Mail/' wouldn't work. As with OS X itself, this is a case-sensitive OS. It would be foolish on Apple's part to make assumptions on the path prefix.



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Using an IMAP account with Mail.app revisited
Authored by: mahakali on Feb 18, '03 09:06:02AM

As others said, it's not a standard. And I guess it's not even common for mail server to use "~/Mail" directory. None of my IMAP accounts uses "~/Mail" prefix. I once had an account that needed some prefix but it wasn't "~/Mail" either.



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