October 29, 2003
Diary of a switcher #3
Mail is driving me nuts. Insane. Crazy. Bonkers.
I have it set up to talk to my IMAP server (UW-imap), and I have a ton of Rules set up to move the 500+ messages I receive a day into the right mailbox. These rules painstakingly recreate the maildrop sorting I had set up under linux. Without it, I very quickly get drowned in email!
Unfortunately, every now and then, Mail decides that rather than saving something to, say, Mail/lists/cocoon/dev (for the dev@cocoon.apache.org mailing list), it will save it to Mail/listscocoondev .... ie, it ignores the folders and creates a new mailbox out of the concatenated directory path.
It's intermittent. And when I re-apply the sorting Rules to an erronious mailbox, it quickly moves them to the right place. What gives? Why not do that in the first place? Is it doing it for a laugh? To see how annoyed I get?
Computers. Pah. I'm off to become a gardener.
Posted by savs at October 29, 2003 10:16 AM