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Has anyone else noticed that Mail.app

posted by Jason Kottke   Nov 07, 2007

Has anyone else noticed that Mail.app and IMAP aren’t perfect playmates in Leopard? The unread counts in my folders don’t update until I click on them (and my inbox unread count never updates), which is suboptimal and time consuming in the extreme.

For my future reference, How-to: Proper GMail

posted by Jason Kottke   Oct 25, 2007

For my future reference, How-to: Proper GMail IMAP for iPhone and Apple Mail.

Letterbox is a widescreen version of Mail.

posted by Jason Kottke   Jun 06, 2006

Letterbox is a widescreen version of Mail.app for use on, duh, widescreen monitors.

You can use iTunes and a little

posted by Jason Kottke   May 05, 2006

You can use iTunes and a little AppleScript to make custom ringtones for Mail.app. I could have it play When Doves Cry everytime I get email from Anil.

Justin’s looking for the largest inbox smoothly

posted by Jason Kottke   Aug 29, 2005

Justin’s looking for the largest inbox smoothly handled by Mail.app…the current high is 26,700 messages. Mine only has around 100 because I filter most messages into a variety of folders. Update: he’s up to 43,000 283,686! (That’s gotta be on a G5 with a ton of RAM…my Powerbook would melt under that kind of weight.)