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'Subscribe' to IMAP folders in Mail.app with a proxy
Authored by: carlivar on Jan 10, '06 09:48:06PM

I've modified this script to do nothing but change IMAP LIST commands sent by Mail.app to LSUB instead. LIST lists all folders; LSUB only lists subscribed folders. So, run Thunderbird or another email app to set your folder subscriptions, then use Mail.app normally.

I've sent my changes to Lars and hopefully this will be a command-line option in his excellent script soon.



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Could you share your script please?
Authored by: moritzh on Jan 20, '06 05:40:20PM

Excellent! Could you post the script, please? It is not yet integrated into the version available for download at the original author's website (http://www.larseggert.de/software/imapfilter.txt). Thank you!

By the way, did you ever encounter the problem described in my previous post above?



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update: it seems to be a bug in Mail.app's implemtation of "Exchange server", not imapfilter.pl
Authored by: moritzh on May 22, '06 09:59:42AM

I spent hours trying everything I could think of before posting the above and `blaming' imapfilter.pl, but of course I could only find the reason afterwards...

It seems to be a bug in Mail.app's implementation of the "Exchange" account type. Reasons:
1) When I created a new account of type "IMAP" rather than "Exchange", either using imapfilter.pl or not, I could see all messages.
2) When I changed my existing "Exchange" account to an "IMAP" account, it worked too. (Note: You can't change it in the GUI. I made the change directly in the com.apple.mail.plist file. It's a bit ugly because you have to re-enter your username and password and you first get a prompt for user '(null)' etc., but it eventually worked for me.) And it stopped working again when I changed the "IMAP" account to an "Exchange" account.
3) Other steps (deleting cache files, deleting the local copies of the messages on the server, recreating the file "Envelope Index", rebuilding all mailboxes etc.) did not help.

Note: When you try do repeat anything I did like modify com.apple.mail.plist, ***make a backup of your entire ~/Library/Mail folder!***

P.S.: My server *is* an Exchange Server of course...
P.P.S.: Most of the messages I could not see in the beginning were mail delivery failure notifications from my mail system, *but not all*. There were also some `normal' messages in between.



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