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Automatic client or server mail filtering
Authored by: MattHaffner on Aug 20, '04 11:52:42AM
So when Procmail puts new messages into different folders, this isn't visible in Mail.

I don't remember for sure if Mail actually beeps, but if you use IMAP, go to the Advanced pane of your account in Mail's preferences. There you'll see a option to "Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes". Check it.

Now, every time your mail is checked, all your folders will be checked and ones with new messages in them will be highlighted in bold with the number of new messages--just like your In box. If you mail folders organized in subfolders and the subfolder is closed, it will be bold to let you know that a folder below it has new mail.

This can be a little network intensive if you check mail frequently or have a lot of folders (like me). So, if you want, you can just do this on occasion manually with Mailbox->Syncronize "account". This is nice if you want to suck up all your filtered mail before you go get on the bus so you have plenty to read on your way home :) Normally, folders aren't synchronized until you open them.

There is also an Applescript synchronize command in Mail, so you could write a little script to synchronize less frequently than you check your In box, triggered by something (e.g. wake), etc.



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Automatic client or server mail filtering
Authored by: jaskerr on Aug 20, '04 01:43:15PM

I believe that Apple Mail will update the folder (and containing group folder) without requiring the synchronization as described.

I don't keep offline-copies, which means that 'Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes' is not available (greyed out). But, I have 'Include when automatically checking for new mail' checked, and this seems sufficient.

When Mail scans my two IMAP accounts, the mail files contained in various subfolders are also scanned for new mail and the folder names are updated accordingly.



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Automatic client or server mail filtering
Authored by: MattHaffner on Aug 20, '04 10:40:39PM

Yes, you're right. The counts and bolded (sub-)folders are updated without the synchronize. Synchronize actually retrieves all the messages so they exist locally.



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Automatic client or server mail filtering
Authored by: iljitsch on Aug 21, '04 06:47:21AM

When exactly does Mail update the folder counts?

For me this only happens when I take my mail account online, when I open a folder, or when I reply to a message (but only for that one folder).

Or when Mail moves the messages to the folders itself, of course.

But maybe I'm in some way limited by my IMAP server. The one I have isn't exactly the most advanced in the world.



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Automatic client or server mail filtering
Authored by: William McCallum on Aug 21, '04 05:22:04PM

I have the same problem, and I'm using the mac.com IMAP server. I use popfile to sort mail on the server. I use cron and applescript to get around the problem.



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