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Hector Toledo · Feb 10, 2005, 03:12 AM

I'm trying to set things up so I can retrieve both my .Mac mail and my POP mail (SBCglobal.net) either from my home computer using Mail.app or away from home using .Mac. But every time I get POP messages using .Mac I get tons of mail, junk ... stuff I deleted days ago ... hundreds of messages. If I delete them and get POP mail again I get it all over again. On the home computer (a 12" PB) I have an SBCglobal account and a .Mac account set up but there's another SBCglobal folder nested in the .Mac account and it's got duplicates of EVERY message that's in Mail.app's other SBC account so there's two of everything. What's going on? Is it possible to convince Mail.app on my home computer not to download all the SBCglobal mail when it gets .Mac mail? Is it possible to get .Mac to use junk filters or at least not download the same messages over and over? I've tried multiple solutions and failed miserably ... any ideas?

cpac · Feb 10, 2005, 06:23 AM

couple things:

(1) no, you can't get .Mac to use your filters
(2) your duplication problems might be solved by tweaking the settings you have for "remove messages from server" on both .Mac and at home.
(3) the way I do it, I just leave Mail.app running on my home computer, and add a rule after all the other rules, to transfer incoming mail to my .Mac account's inbox - that way I get the benefit of the junk mail filter, even when I'm checking from .Mac - but it does require my home computer to be on and running Mail all day.

Hector Toledo · Feb 10, 2005, 03:13 PM

That's a good idea. Do you move the mail to the .Mac inbox or copy it? How the synchronize account function work in Mail.app? Would that accomplish the same thing?

cpac · Feb 10, 2005, 03:54 PM

Originally posted by Hector Toledo:
That's a good idea. Do you move the mail to the .Mac inbox or copy it?

I move it.

How the synchronize account function work in Mail.app? Would that accomplish the same thing?

Synchronize just makes sure, with IMAP accounts, that everything on the server matches everything on your home computer. I would not accomplish the same thing, since it wouldn't do anything with emails that are coming from a POP account.