Matts blog

So we got Leopard on a MacBook Pro we purchased at work today so I thought I’d try out Mail.app and see if the rumours about being able to subscribe to imap folders is true.

It seems like the functionality is there, but I can’t seem to actually get it to work, the problem seems to be related to the IMAP Path Prefix, I use dovecot and Cyrus IMAP servers and can’t seem to find a setting that lets me see both public and my own folders off my inbox.

The other thing is why does something get marked as read when I click on it, just because I’ve clicked an email does not mean I’ve read it.

Why can’t apple make this work? With Thunderbird IMAP works with any imap server I connect to with out a problem, so it can’t be that hard.

The rest of leopard looks fine, nice UI, seems responsive, Spaces is very nice (but so was virtudesktops), would I go and buy the upgrade for my own mac? Nope, Mail is the reason I would upgrade and as it seems to be still very broken I might as well save myself the pain of getting everything set up (Fink/MacPorts being the biggest unsupported feature).

Leopard - a big disappointment.

If Apple are reading this, PLEASE fix IMAP support in Mail, even if this means copying Thunderbird, even outlook express does a better job at IMAP than Mail.app.