Synching Leopard Mail between MBP and Desktop
When I used Apple's Mail program in Tiger, I could copy the Library\\Mail folder from one Mac to the other and keep the two completely in sync. Under Leopard (on both Macs), this no longer works. Suppose I haven't checked mail on my desktop in a week but checked it just 10 minutes ago on my laptop. If I then copy the Mail folder from my laptop to my desktop all of the messages appear as expected but when the desktop retrieves new messages, it pulls them for the last week and not the last 10 minutes like it did in Tiger.
Does anyone know where Leopard keeps the record of when it last checked for mail? I would have thought it would be in the Mail folder but clearly it isn't.
Does anyone know where Leopard keeps the record of when it last checked for mail? I would have thought it would be in the Mail folder but clearly it isn't.
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With that said, wouldn't an email account with IMAP solve your problems/make them a nonissue? Because you can manage your IMAP email account directly and changes made in Mail are also applied to the webMail account (GMAIL, Yahoo, etc) wouldnt it make them in sync?
IMAP's not a real solution, since many of us have gigabytes worth of mail, and it's impractical to keep that on a server.
It's hard to believe that Apple hasn't solved this yet. It's almost like they don't want professionals buying a desktop and a laptop. Their shareholders should have a chat with whoever is in charge of Mail's architechture.