Well I've been with OS X for a few weeks now. I'm loving it bar a few niggles. Finder not having a Cut functionality is just criminal (not to mention weird); even free *nix OS like Linux and BSD have Cut so why on earth doesn't OS X?!
Also (and the main reason for my post), can anyone recommend a good app for dealing with IMAP mail accounts? I'm using Thunderbird at the moment but it tends to 'stick' after the MBP has been asleep, or TB has been closed back to its icon (running in the background) for a while. It doesn't actually hang/freeze, it just stops checking the mail server and has a 'checking' spinner running constantly. You have to quit and re-launch it to get it to ACTUALLY check the server. Annoying.
The built-in Mail app is very nice looking and has great functionality. Unfortunately however, it seems to handle folders in a strange way. I have a share of a Linux dedi server, and the mail server has a folder structure like this:
INBOX
INBOX.Drafts
INBOX.Sent
INBOX.Junk
and so on. In Thunderbird this is fine, as it loads the account up in the side-bar, and downloads the folder structure for each particular account.
Unfortunately, Mail doesn't do this. It downloads the folder structure from the remote server, but then insists on using some of the local folders (eg Trash, Junk) as well so you end up with one account spread over two sets of folders, which don't all sync nicely to the remote IMAP server.
I have an Office 2011 licence via uni but Outlook is horrid with IMAP (not supporting delete/move to trash, for example). So does anyone know how to either get Mail working with ONLY my remote folders, ignoring local ones, or else a decent Thunderbird-like app that actually works properly?
I have a nasty feeling I'm going to have to just stick it out with Thunderbird. Nothing else seems to come close, and as far as I can tell there's no Evolution port for OS X. Any ideas guys? TIA.
Also (and the main reason for my post), can anyone recommend a good app for dealing with IMAP mail accounts? I'm using Thunderbird at the moment but it tends to 'stick' after the MBP has been asleep, or TB has been closed back to its icon (running in the background) for a while. It doesn't actually hang/freeze, it just stops checking the mail server and has a 'checking' spinner running constantly. You have to quit and re-launch it to get it to ACTUALLY check the server. Annoying.
The built-in Mail app is very nice looking and has great functionality. Unfortunately however, it seems to handle folders in a strange way. I have a share of a Linux dedi server, and the mail server has a folder structure like this:
INBOX
INBOX.Drafts
INBOX.Sent
INBOX.Junk
and so on. In Thunderbird this is fine, as it loads the account up in the side-bar, and downloads the folder structure for each particular account.
Unfortunately, Mail doesn't do this. It downloads the folder structure from the remote server, but then insists on using some of the local folders (eg Trash, Junk) as well so you end up with one account spread over two sets of folders, which don't all sync nicely to the remote IMAP server.
I have an Office 2011 licence via uni but Outlook is horrid with IMAP (not supporting delete/move to trash, for example). So does anyone know how to either get Mail working with ONLY my remote folders, ignoring local ones, or else a decent Thunderbird-like app that actually works properly?
I have a nasty feeling I'm going to have to just stick it out with Thunderbird. Nothing else seems to come close, and as far as I can tell there's no Evolution port for OS X. Any ideas guys? TIA.
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