[Alpine-info] Re: Strange behaviour in deleting from Gmail

[Michael Dalling]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Özgür Gökmen wrote:


> Mail.app creates a .Sent Messages

> directory on the server for the Mail.app Sent folder, and there is no way

> to rename that mailbox via the contextual menu or otherwise.


I hadn't known that.  Mail under Snow Leopard seems to have stopped 
automatically creating To Do and Notes folders on IMAP servers, which it 
used to do previously.  I knew it did that; I didn't know it would insist 
on a particular name for sent messages.

I wonder if it does that if one has "Store sent messages on the server" 
checked under "Mailbox Behaviors" in the account preferences.  Of course, 
if that were not checked one would have to drag messages from a local Sent 
folder to an IMAP one, if one wanted them kept server-side, after sending 
them.  But perhaps that's a solution for anyone who mostly uses Alpine and 
only occasionally Apple Mail.

Alternatively, how if you delete the offending mailbox, highlight the one 
you *do* want to use in the left pane, and select in the menubar Mailbox > 
Use This Mailbox For > Sent?  Its name (and very location in the UI) will 
then change inside Mail but not, I think, on the server.

-- 
Michael