"The Great Debate" - POP vs IMAP (fork of Mail Problems)

[Jim Witte]

>> On Oct 5, 2006, at 11:39 AM, David Zhou wrote:
>>> This is more of a IMAP client problem than anything with the  
>>> protocol.  It'd be very simple for an email client to have an  
>>> "archive all email of this account" command, and simply suck  
>>> everything from the IMAP account into an archive.

   I hadn't realized that about IMAP, and just set up a rule, run  
after every other rule, to copy every to a local inbox folder..   
(Most of my mail is sorted into a large hierarchy anyway).  The only  
little problem with that is that Cmd-1 which switches to INBOX,  
switches to the IMAP inbox (actually, I have a POP and an IMAP  
account - the POP will be going away at some point though).

   It's nice to have a simple cmd key to switch to the inbox, but is  
there an easy way to set one up to select a another one (I'm not sure  
if it's possible to disable the normal cmd-1 key [as it's not in a  
menu, and this not in a rsrc/nib file to be modified]), but can a  
mailbox be 'assigned' a modifier combination?

   That's another thing that might be really nice in Mail..  Or  
perhaps Unsanity could figure out how to hack it in - the key part  
would be easy - just write use RegisterHotKey, and maybe figure out  
how to override the normal key handler if you want to do that.   
Putting the mod-key visuals in the mailbox list would be harder  
though..  There might be a MailboxListLineView class somewhere that  
could be hacked - if it exists..)

Jim