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iPad vs MacBook Air: Why I’m so glad I don’t use an iPad

I’ve just spent an hour helping a client get set up with secondary addresses in Gmail within Apple Mail. She’s tried and failed to get Apple Mail to work reliably enough for her taste on vanilla IMAP. Our own four full articles on the idiosyncracies of Apple Mail IMAP support her point:

Just as we got to the goal line, B. asked me about setting up Mail on the iPad to work with secondary addresses in Gmail.

Turns out that’s it’s pretty difficult:

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Apple Mail IMAP: Sent Mail Showing up in wrong folder on second computer

We’ve written a lot about IMAP and Apple Mail. We still maintain IMAP is a blessing and essential for any user with more than one computer. Yet Apple Mail still has surprises for us.

In particular, you never know what folder it’s going to choose for sent mail. So it’s very easy to end up with your sent mail and your spam mail scattered across three different folders on as many computers.

There is a craftily hidden command which will let you sort this out ver quickly.

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Apple Mail: Fixing Broken IMAP accounts after a server move

Trouble with your IMAP after a server move? Here are the setting you need to change in Apple Mail to save messages properly.

Apple Mail: Getting rid of multiple draft messages in IMAP

Having trouble with draft messages proliferating like rabbits in IMAP in Apple Mail? Here's the solution.