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Helps sidebar, but not sync
Authored by: ptone on Thu, Apr 17 2008 at 10:51AM PDT

This is a great tip and helps clean up the sidebar. But so far I haven't seen it solve the issue I have with sync, where mail.app fails to promptly download new mail messages.

I have Google notifier installed, and get notice of new messages sometimes minutes-an hour before mail.app fetches it. Quiting and relaunching mail always seems to work. IDLE setting doesn't seem to matter. Not sure if this is a mail.app or a gmail issue...

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Helps sidebar, but not sync
Authored by: hodgjy on Fri, Apr 18 2008 at 9:11AM PDT

I've noticed that IDLE commands from Mail.app don't work with many mail servers. They have failed with every mail server I've tried. So, in my opinion, this is a Mail.app problem and not a Gmail problem. I've turned off IDLE commands and set my check for mail interval to 5 mins. I get every message and I also get the new mail notification sound (which is apparently hit or miss in Leopard's Mail.app).