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Details of Mail.app's IMAP implementation

Paul Westbrook | 08 January, 2006 16:22

Transitioning between different mail servers is very easy when using IMAP.  All that you need to do is to configure your mail client for both accounts, and then just drag the mail messages and folders between the two.

I did this to move the mail to the new server, and I noticed some interesting things in Mail.app when transferring these messages.

  1. When copying a folder that has both mail messages and other folder, the messages in the root folder sometimes didn't get copied
  2. Mail doesn't deal well with a IMAP accout that is above it's disk space quota.  It just states "Unknown Error".  (Thunderbird handles this well.)

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