On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:27 -0500, Brian Awood wrote: > We've seen somewhat similar behavior with the Apple Mail client in the past. > My guess is it's IDLE related. If your using Apple Mail that came with 10.5, > it's IDLE implementation appears to work at first. However it has a bug in > it > so that it stops working after a while. It seemed related to how it managed > different connections to the server, using a different connection for each > folder you opened. It is more reliable in the version that comes with OS X > 10.6.
We do mostly have 10.5 on our Macs, so I will ask a few people to disable the "use IDLE" option and see if that makes a difference. > However we've also seen very strange behavior in Apple Mail when it's local > cache gets corrupted somehow. You can try using the Mailbox->Rebuild option, > but typically the most effective way I've found to correct it is to go into > Preferences:Accounts and remove the account that has the problem, then > restart > Apple Mail and reconfigure the account. I'll get people to try this after seeing the results of disabling IDLE. Thanks for your help! Simon. -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
