Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / December 2003

Hi All-

  I am new to IMAP, and I have gotten a real mess going.  I used Apple
Mail.app for a week, and apparently it has set up a bunch of boxes for
its purposes on the server.

  Here is the desired outcome:

  One IMAP server, associated with a domain name that I am in charge
of. All mail to that domain name gets to me, janitor@dn.com,
webmaster@dn.com, wwred3454@dn.com, etc...

  There are a few OLD mail addresses that I know have been spammed out.
Hence Anything addressed to (for example) jd@dn.com, arts@dn.com,
bp@dn.com must go in to a JUNK folder.

  There are a few hats I wear in life these days. In EUDORA these were
personalities.  They check mail at the same server address, and send
mail with the same SMTP server. But they have a different ReplyTo and a
different Signature associated with each.  I could easily switch
personalities as I was working with the Eudora popup in each mail msg.

 SO Far:

I set up a DOMINANT IMAP account.  There are
Inbox, Junk, Trash

Then I set up Three new personalities, all with the same IMAP server and
username, (and SMTP server for that matter).

 PROBLEM:
Eudora synchronized with the server, making the same big list of
mailboxes for each personality. Now when I get junk mail, it is
appearing in all 3 mailboxes !!

btw- the Junk command is not working, It says the UIDLCOMP msg is not
implemented on my server, and that the Junk mailbox cannot be found.
Weird, since the DOMINANT personalitiy clearly has a Junk box in it in
the menu...

  What if I just blow away all the mailboxes on my server?  Can I do
that ?  Mail.app filters junk mail very well, but I can't use it because
of the personality problem.

  thanks for advice or pointers...

  -Brian