Comments on: IMAP problems with Apple Mail.app

By: hilongos

hilongos — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:03:42 +0000

when i was still in a technical support team, we never recommend this client if they prefer using imap.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 20:10:10 +0000

I use Mail 3.5 and my 3 IMAP accounts suffer from a huge delay (more than 1 hour is many cases).

I guess they force us to not use it and go for thunderbird for example.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 03:54:19 +0000

Concur. Using Apple Mail 3.5 and still have horrible IMAP performance. I’m about to give up.

By: socrtp

socrtp — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:29:52 +0000

this bug still exists in Mail 3.5 (929.4/929.2)

By: geo

geo — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:02:27 +0000

not sure if the problem is still present, as I stopped using IMAP and moved to pop. but I’m planning on giving it another try when I upgrade to leopord maybe that version has a rewritten imap code

By: pmlittle

pmlittle — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:08:36 +0000

IS this problem still present ver. Mail.app v2.1? I am using it also on many machines and I am getting the same problem.

By: James D. Taylor

James D. Taylor — Mon, 22 May 2006 04:45:01 +0000

Mail.app’s IMAP handling leaves a lot to be desired. Apple’s people seem to always say ‘wait for the next version’. It’s been broken for ages. It’s getting better, but it’s taking too long.

One can only hope that Apple keeps its promises in fixing the problem.

Here is another article talking about Mail.app’s performance too:

http://www.gnegg.ch/archives/mac_mail_can_software_perform_worse.html