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Use the proper folder prefix instead!
Authored by: mr-fish on Nov 28, '03 04:43:52PM

According to the IMAP spec, your e-mail client should automatically negoiate the proper IMAP folder prefix. mail.app (& and several others) does not seem to be able to do this properly. Instead of creating sym-links in your ~/Maildir directory (you might not have a shell...), set your mail.app preference for the folder prefix to "INBOX", "INBOX.", or "" (null). One of these will make mail.app work. I'd check, but I'd hate to reboot from ppclinux to find out...



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Use the proper folder prefix instead!
Authored by: JoeCotellese on Dec 28, '03 10:52:08PM

FWIW, INBOX works. Thanks ALOT, I'm finally able to dump Thunderbird for Mail.app



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