I HATE APPLE

haha, yeah they are terrible in that regard. when my internal HD died (2 months out of warranty, natch) they asked a crazy figure to repair it. i ended up buying a HD twice as big off newegg, took it to a local shop, the whole thing was way way less than what the Apple Store quoted me.

is time machine a horrible godawful slow mess for anyone else or just me? I can't even have it running on my mac mini (running snow leopard), it slows the entire thing down to an awful crawl.

finally figured out how to get rid of "Apple To Do" mailboxes from showing up in ALL of my IMAP accounts ON IPHONE

1. quit Mail
2. open terminal, paste

defaults write com.apple.mail NewNoteToDoAccount -string LocalAccountId

and hit enter.

3. you'l still need to delete the mailbox on the server, but now it won't be created again.

is it just me or does it seem weird that leopard has the permissions to create mailboxes on my own mail server??

hey, that's just IMAP (4) and your mail server at work

fuck now it's back.

WARNING. BUM TIP.

whatchoo talkin bout alang. it isn't my work mail server it's MINE OWN.

unless you have done skillz stuff to stop your mail server allowing it, IMAP clients have the ability to make folders when they like innit

I have a folder INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Trash or something. It's pretty buggy.

the whole point of using IMAP over POP3 is that IMAP can do stuff to yer mail server

would like to know how to get rid of To-do folder too though

I have this golden vision of opening my mail program ON IPHONE and seeing "Inbox" "Drafts" "Sent" and "Trash" for each of my email accounts, and nothing else. Or even a consolidated inbox so I don't have to check each account individually but let's not get carried away.

I am sorely tempted to set permissions on /~Home/Library/Mail/IMAP-account/INBOX to read-only so that Mail can't create anything there (but would still be able to alter lower folders) but I'm a big scaredy cat.

has anyone here lost their ability to send out gmail in OS X Mail? I didn't change anything but one day mails in my gmail outbox just stopped getting sent; instead it just spins indefinitely. I've tried removing gmail from Mail and putting it back in, but nothing. And google hasn't helped.

Euler you may possibly be running into a mail relay situation with your local ISP - they may have changed their policy about what ports they accept outgoing traffic on. Have you tried sending it non-securely (port 25), or over port 465 or 587?

IMAP on Mail seems to just suck though. I've spent the last two days trying to get all my accounts moved from POP3 to IMAP, and I'm running into all these weird bugs, like the one caek mentioned.

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081005/2_nested_inbox.png

are you using an IMAP prefix option in the account setup?

does this help?

http://www.geekology.co.za/blog/2009/02/configure-gmail-imap-accounts-properly-in-apple-mail-and-on-the-iphone/

Tracer I'll try that. Thanks!

alang it's not a gmail account. :(

I generally do this once in a while, which is great to be doing in 2009.

n11:mike$ cd Maildir/
n11:Maildir$ find . -name 'INBOX.INBOX*'
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Trash
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.Junk
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Junk
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Trash
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Trash
./courierimaphieracl/INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX
n11:Maildir$ find . -name 'INBOX.INBOX*' -print0 | xargs -0  rm -rf

and

n11:Maildir$ rm -r .Apple\ Mail\ To\ Do/

and remove all the subscriptions to this bullshit in the web interface of my IMAP account (or hacking the Maildir files if you are elite)

and then I set

ToDosMailboxName

and then i trash ~/Library/Mail (saving a copy of my rules)

and then I restart Mail

good times

fucking hell

I should work for tombot.

i mean excuse me for owning a mac, an iphone, and having a goddamn imap email account

to be fair, the bugs aren't show stoppers, but it's surprising they're still there. i think this started in 10.5.

what the hell are you guys doing

ive been using 4 imap accts (and now 1 exchange acct) for like 3 years now--also on my iphone--i have not run into any of the problems you are having

heres a quick tip tho--just leave the apple to do folder alone, its not hurting you

I don't care about the todo folder, but the INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.... folders can be a problem. Mail seems to add them at random. I have no idea why, but I'm not the only person who this happens to, so after a couple of months I have them 20 deep, which sloooooooows things down. so i have to follow leon's advice and step into apple mail's asshole and paint graffiti, eat snickers, etc.

max OTM.

nope. this:

http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20081005/2_nested_inbox.png

not cosmetic, is a performance issue, is a known bug.

^that does suck.

My Airport picks up my wifi network but it doesn't connect to the internet through it. Doesn't seem to recognize the internet at all. My roommates' puters and my PS3 do fine with it though. Anybody ever see this?

Despite Apple's "it just works" stuff on OS X clinet really working. It really really does not apply to server. I have never been able to set up OS X server just with the admin and config tools, something always has to be hand coded into the config files.

this morning OSX decided to stop connecting to the two (WPA protected, authentication needed) wireless networks at work. it just sits there with a stupid ! in the airport logo and says "authentication server not responding...". but it connects fine in windows 7 (same laptop).

I tried deleting user profiles, forgetting the wireless networks, etc. but nothing works. does airport have pref files or anything I can nuke and start over with?

no idea, sorry :/

just adding my complaint that hey, my ipod just DIED randomly for no reason a day or two ago. boo.

oh no - what happened? folder with a sad face? won't turn on?

googling around it seems like airport hoisting itself on its own petard seems to be a pretty common problem. ugh

yeah, just won't turn on.

that happened to my nano after I tried using some dodgy chinese usb charger with it. did you try holding down the play button/center button for 5 seconds?

dyao, you could try deleting all memory of those SSIDs from the system keychain (use keychain access in /Apps/Utilities)

thanks, caek. I just trashed my airport prefs file and it seems to be working okay now. but yeah there are a bunch of entries in my keychain too, I'm gonna clear those out just to be safe.

when I am br0ed I will do a clean install of SL, I guess.

I think it's iphone tethering that's fucking things up tbh.

A few months ago I started getting a screen flicker on my Macbook. I sent it to the depot and they replaced a ton of stuff, but after a week of having it back the screen was starting to flicker again and in a couple weeks the Macbook stopped booting correctly. I'd have to turn it off and on multiple times to get it to boot up. Finally on Tuesday it totally gave up the ghost and I brought it in for a second round of repairs. They said they'd send it back to the depot, but when I check the website or call tech support to check on a repair status they say it's still sitting at the store. Super frustrating.

is that a MBP? the screen flickering is a common problem (happens on mine all the time but no other symptoms yet, knock on wood.)

Normal black macbook

Turned my macbook on this morning and apparently "No airport card is installed". No time to investigate beyond booting from known working backup of hard disk (where the problem is still there). Looking forward to resetting PRAM, running hardware tests from boot CDs, etc. tonight. The best bit is that AppleCare expired 1 month ago.

maybe the physical connection got unseated? I had a disappearing DVD drive that boiled down to an unseated connector. (also found two loose, unaccounted for screws when I opened it. don't have AppleCare. knock on wood)