Mail mboxes showing up empty

[Google Kreme]

On 05 Oct 2006, at 06:57 , Robert La Ferla wrote:
> On Oct 5, 2006, at 3:58 AM, Google Kreme wrote:
>> On 04 Oct 2006, at 21:53 , Scot Hacker wrote:
>>> These problems seem to have just come up recently (since a recent  
>>> Software Update?) Baffling.
>>
>> When I have occasional weird issues with mail, I rebuild the In  
>> boxes and synch the accounts.
>
> I have a daily issue with Mail.app where I have to wait for it to  
> display my messages when a mailbox is selected.  Rebuilding the  
> mailbox(s) does not fix the problem.

I use smart mailboxes for almost all my reading.  It usually only  
takes about .75-1.5 seconds for a smart mailbox to display its  
contents, although it can sometimes be much longer.

Regular mailboxes are generally speaking quite fast, unless they are  
quite large, then the delay can be several seconds, or more.

My biggest issue with mail, and it's mostly solved with the smart  
mailboxes, is that it doens't update the status of mailboxes if they  
change while mail is open, assuming mail didn't change them. So if  
new mail arrives in my IMAP mailbox "friends" mail.app will not see  
it until I either disconnect/connect or synchronize the account.  But  
usually the smartmailbox will pick it up anyway.  Usually.

Frankly, Mail.app is a crappy mail client in many ways.  But over  
all, it's better than any of the other's I've tried, and I've tried a  
lot.


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