On Feb 25, 2008, at 11:06 PM, Kirk Bertsche wrote:
Disadvantages of Mail.app over Entourage:
1) Apple address book is not as smart (eMailer and Entourage can
have multiple addresses per person and specify which one is
"primary". I can't see how to do this in Mail.app)
I believe it uses the first email address listed in Address Book for
the name as the default. From there, you can use the arrow keys to
walk thru the list of all matching addresses for the name you have
entered.
2) if you want Mail.app to treat AOL mail similarly to eMailer:
a) set up Mail.app to access AOL account as "IMAP", not "POP"
b) create a local inbox (I named it "_Inbox_Local")
c) set up a rule to copy all mail to this local inbox
d) create a second rule to mark all mail as "read"
What will this do? Every time you check mail, any new AOL mail
will be copied to your local inbox. When it is eventually deleted
from AOL's server, you will still have this local copy.
Additionally all of this mail will be marked as "read" on the AOL
server, and it will still be accessible from the web on other
machines. This is true even if you move the local copy to a
different folder. (If you move mail from the main Mail.app inbox
to a folder, it gets deleted from the AOL server.)
If your goal is simply to make sure that your AOL mail is kept
locally, you should be able to simplify this. In the account settings
for the AOL account in Mail, go to the Advanced tab and set the "Keep
copies of messages for offline viewing:" popup to "All messages and
their attachments".
That should then locally store all the mail that Mail.app is aware of
for that account (this setting is an IMAP setting, and should work
for all IMAP accounts, including AOL).
-chris
<www.mythtech.net>
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