[l008com]

So I upgraded, and everything that was in my inbox was in an On My Mac, and new emails went to my Mac.com inbox. So I Moved all the On My Mac emails into the Mac.com mailbox. But Whenever I try to rename or Delete the On My Mac mailbox, strange things happen. can someone explain this to me?

[hellohello1]

Originally posted by l008com:
So I upgraded, and everything that was in my inbox was in an On My Mac, and new emails went to my Mac.com inbox. So I Moved all the On My Mac emails into the Mac.com mailbox. But Whenever I try to rename or Delete the On My Mac mailbox, strange things happen. can someone explain this to me?

for anyone to help you, you have to be more specific than "strange things happen."

[l008com]

OK i tried to re name it and it didn't rename, then every time you clicked on it, it would randomly take the name of another inbox name. I tried to delete it, and it didn't delete, but instead got a drop down triangle next to it. Clicking on the triangle did nothing, there was nothing it it, totally empty.

[Brass]

Some related questions:

� If you've never used Mail.app before (never even opened it), does the "On My Mac" mail box get created?

� Is the "On My Mac" mailbox required? (I've deleted it, and it seems to be okay, but then I see that it's name comes up in some dialogue boxes as an option - eg, New Mailbox)

� Why is it there?

� Why does it have such a stupid name. It's almost as bad as Windows' "My Computer". We're not all morons, so please don't treat us like that, Apple.

[pinlo]

Originally posted by Brass:
Some related questions:

� If you've never used Mail.app before (never even opened it), does the "On My Mac" mail box get created?

� Is the "On My Mac" mailbox required? (I've deleted it, and it seems to be okay, but then I see that it's name comes up in some dialogue boxes as an option - eg, New Mailbox)

� Why is it there?

� Why does it have such a stupid name. It's almost as bad as Windows' "My Computer". We're not all morons, so please don't treat us like that, Apple.

It seems that the 'On My Mac' mailbox gets created if (and only if) you have an IMAP email account set up.

Makes sense now, right?

[kcmac]

My experience is that the On My Mac is where all your emails for inbox, sent and trash are located when you initially upgrade your system.

Transfer all of the On my Mac info into the appropriate mailboxes that you either create or exist from your previous installation and then delete the on my mac mailbox.

Exit mail and then reopen it and the on my mac boxes will be gone.

[pinlo]

Originally posted by kcmac:
My experience is that the On My Mac is where all your emails for inbox, sent and trash are located when you initially upgrade your system.

Transfer all of the On my Mac info into the appropriate mailboxes that you either create or exist from your previous installation and then delete the on my mac mailbox.

Exit mail and then reopen it and the on my mac boxes will be gone.

I think its presense is dependent on whether you entered your .mac info during installation (in which case an IMAP account will be set up for you in Mail), and also on whether you import any mailboxes or not.

[hellohello1]

"on my mac" is dependant on whether or not there are un-used IMAP mailboxes ....

for example, i have two imap addresses in mail. I have a drafts,inbox,sent,and deleted for both of them....i also have two folders where i archive all deleted and sent mail. right now, they aren't put under "on my mac"--but, if i create a new online mailbox in one of my IMAP accounts, and don't tell it to use it for one of the 4 functions, it will put it in a new folder (say, Mailbox2) and then move the two archive folders into an "on my mac."

if i delete the online mailbox, and thus there are no more unused online mailboxes, both folders disappear, and the archives folders are no longer under "on my mac'--they just sit at the bottom of the list.

[Nathan Adams]

"On My Mac" is where locally stored emails are stored.
So if you're IMAP box is getting full, but there's a heap of emails you want to keep, drag them over there and they'll stay on your HD, but get deleted from the server.

It should disappear if you have no folders inside it.. at least thats what mine does.

[Brass]

Originally posted by pinlo:

It seems that the 'On My Mac' mailbox gets created if (and only if) you have an IMAP email account set up.

Makes sense now, right?

NOPE. I do not have and never have had any IMAP mail. But I still got the "On My Mac" box.

[Brass]

Originally posted by kcmac:
My experience is that the On My Mac is where all your emails for inbox, sent and trash are located when you initially upgrade your system.

Transfer all of the On my Mac info into the appropriate mailboxes that you either create or exist from your previous installation and then delete the on my mac mailbox.

Exit mail and then reopen it and the on my mac boxes will be gone.

This appears to be the case, but there is a problem with that.

Once you've deleted the On My Mac box, it still appears as the top-level mailbox in the pop-up in the "New Mailbox" dialogue (in fact it is the only choice). Hoever, created a new mailbox, doesn't actually put it there, but rather puts the new box at the top level.

This is very confusing.

There appears to be no way to recreate the On My Mac box after deleting it either.

[pinlo]

Originally posted by Brass:


NOPE. I do not have and never have had any IMAP mail. But I still got the "On My Mac" box.

Well, I do not have and never have had any IMAP mail either, and I didn't get the 'On My Mac' mailbox until I added an IMAP account to test it.

Anyway, I don't doubt any problems you're having. There are many things about Mail that could still be better.

[pobodysnerfect]

this was one of my biggest complaints about upgrading to 10.2 It took my neatly ordered mailboxes and threw stuff everywhere. It took what I had in one place and put it into 3 different areas!? I had a mailbox called "work" in 10.1.5 and now some of what was in that box is in the "In" box, my "work" box and now there is a "work" folder in the "On My Mac" Looking at the messages there is no rhyme or reason to what is where, it looks like a random distribution of existing mail tossed everywhere. I am so damn confused as to what has happened that I think a clean install is in order to get everything back to some semblance of order... Other than this mess 10.2 has been great.

[Big Mac]

I like a lot of the new features of Jaguar's Mail, but Mail itself has always had a strange way of dealing with folders. Folders that shouldn't appear do appear and then don't go away. The issue still hasn't been fixed through two major releases; maybe Apple doesn't realize there's a problem. I think a clear deliniation between IMAP folders and regular folders would be a good start at managing the issue, but other things must be done as well. Time for feedback!

[l008com]

I think every mail account should have its own main section, and in it should have one of everything, sent, deleted, inbox etc, KINDA like it was before, but a little better, and if the accounts are minimized with the triangle, clicking on the item would automatically show the inbox.
The way it is now is just strange