Mac OS X 'Mail' question...

[rwoodsmall]

Hello all. I'm wondering if it's possible to setup the 'Mail' application under Mac OS X to ignore a remote IMAP folder. Our email team has recently moved from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000, and in doing so they've begun to share our organizations 'Public Folders' through IMAP. This is an absolutely *hugh* collection of folders that is shared among every department in my organization. Using IMAP to access my email using the Mail application with a server running Exchange 5.5 was never a problem, but since the upgrades and the sharing of the public folders, it sometimes takes between 5 and 20 minutes for me to log on to the IMAP server. This wouldn't be such a problem if there was a native Outlook client for Mac OS X; I've run into a few snags here and there with the old Outlook running under Classic, and Entourage just doesn't cut it.

What I'm really wondering is if there's any way to tell Mail to completely ignore the public folders. It seems that the problem lies in trying to traverse the folder hierarchy; it simply takes too long...

Anyone have any suggestions? Our Mac experts didn't have a simple answer for me, as they're still ingrained in Mac OS 9. Anything would be appreciated. Thanks!

 

[dricci]

I don't think that's possible in Mail.app.

You may want to try Eudora. Do a search on Version Tracker. I personally don't use Eudora because I think it's got a horrible GUI, but there is an OS X native version, and some people swear that it is the most powerful e-mail app. You may want to give it a try, it probably would handle IMAP better without needing to disable any folders. Mail.app has been critisized by many due to it's poor IMAP support.

 

[lethe]

there is an option to specify a folder on the IMAP server. for example, if i specify nothing, then mail.app will download my entire directory over IMAP. if i tell it to only get the /mail/ folder on my server, then it will ignore everything else.

if you need everything except one particular folder, then this won t work, but if you can organize your folders somehow so they don t have to have this public folder in the heirarchy, you should be OK