Couple Newbie Questions About Mail.app

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Henry Flam - 26 Sep 2006 02:58 GMT

I just installed the latest version of Mac OS X and I'm puzzled about
something. There is now a tilde (~) attached to the names of my Inbox
and the Pop Account mailboxes. What does it mean? I thought that the
e-mail on my servers was overfilled so I went there and erased it all.
When I came back to Mail, the tilde was still there. I've looked
through the Mail Help but there is nothing about symbols or anything
which would give me an answer. What's going on?

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Kevin - 30 Sep 2006 06:36 GMT

> I just installed the latest version of Mac OS X and I'm puzzled about
> something. There is now a tilde (~) attached to the names of my Inbox
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> through the Mail Help but there is nothing about symbols or anything
> which would give me an answer. What's going on?

Where was the tilde? Inline with the mailbox name (i.e., "~My e-mail" or
"My e-mail~") or was it flush right in the mailboxes pane and inside a
circle?

If it's flush right in a circle it's actually a lightening bolt and it
means Mail can't connect to that accounts incoming server.

If it's the other... well, I have no clue.

Kevin

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Unless you were there you don't really know.

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Henry Flam - 30 Sep 2006 10:25 GMT

> > I just installed the latest version of Mac OS X and I'm puzzled about
> > something. There is now a tilde (~) attached to the names of my Inbox
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> --
> Unless you were there you don't really know.

It was the second. I guess my ISP disconnected for some reason. I don't
think it was anything I did. This was the first time that I came upon
this symbol and I was quite puzzled because I couldn't find out what it
meant. Reading the newsgroup I got the answer from someone and I
reconnected. Thanks anyway. Do you know if there is doc available that
explains it?

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Couple Newbie Questions About Mail.app