Tiger Mail (2.1.1) suddenly making (most) *downloaded* IMAP mail "has not been download from the server.."

[LuKreme]

On 2-Apr-2008, at 21:46, Jim Witte wrote:
> So I take mail "offline", quit it and reopen it.

I've had the exact thing happen in Tiger on more than one occasion,  
but I was not able to 'get it back' as easily as that.  I had to move  
aside ~/Library/Mail/ and let iSync resync the email accounts, launch  
mail, stop it relaoding everything off the IMAP server, quit it, and  
then move ~/Library/Mail/ back

>  Or just start backing up mail every day.. (and get Leopard and a  
> Time Capsule - can you hack another Mac's external drive into  
> working like a Time Capsule?)

As long as the machines are 10.5 there is no hack involved.  It. Just.  
Works.

>  Or get Entourage or something more appropriate for the kinds of  
> really advanced filtering I'd like to be able to do (by person,  
> storing outgoing message to different people in specific folders,

I use server side filtering for all my sorting and filtering.  It  
means I have googols of folders, but none are very large.

> Set colors of messages IN MAIL AND SET SPOTLIGHT COMMETNTS!! (Why  
> the HECK can't I do that now?  It's just an elmx file and in the  
> finder you can set SL comments on any file - so why not directly  
> from Mail?)

That would be nice.  Of course, getting mail to resync an edited  
message would be nice too...

> Or for that matter change subject lines, rethread separate message  
> threads that get broken or forked

Command-| should join threads, just like it merges Address Book  
entries.  Sigh.

> Or just learn to love some semi-graphical Emacs where I can write my  
> own Elisp macros to do

you (why (do (that) would))?

> whatever I want (I would LOVE the ability to hook onto any  
> functionality of a program without rooting around for object names  
> and message calls, and using APE to do it..  The ability to attach  
> Applescript Studio script to Apple apps would be nice..  And  
> impossible I think)

I am still waiting for a really spectacular change in Mail.app and a  
whole rethink of the whole thing.

What I would like it to do is be much more autonomous.  It should be  
looking at all the meta data for messages and building its own smart- 
mailboxes out of that.  Like it sees a much of messages from this  
mailing list, so it makes a folder for the group all on its own. It  
notices that when you get emails from Mom at yourdomain.tld (or blumbergh at inintech.tld 
) you respond very quickly, so it warns you when messages from Mom/ 
Bill come in so you can deal with them right away.


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