Here’s an excerpt from a macosxhints.com hint about optimizing Leopard Mail for accounts that support “push” (like me.com and gmail):
…this is a great way to keep your mailboxes up-to-the-second current without having Mail.app hog the bandwidth, checking every minute or five minutes.
If your server supports IDLE (Gmail, .Mac/MobileMe, and most university servers do), then [...]

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Does this screen look familiar?

If you’re constantly having to click “Always trust XXX when connecting to XXX” when using Mail with SSL on, your solution may be a few clicks away.
In the above image, notice that it says “Always trust “smtp.gmail.com” when connecting to “imap.gmail.com”.” The problem here is that Leopard won’t ever trust [...]

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If you’re like me, you organize your Mac Mail into folders (aka Mailboxes). I like to keep my Inbox as close to empty as possible — that means, when I get new messages I move them out of the Inbox and to their appropriate folder immediately.
Since I have 5 IMAP e-mail accounts all with [...]

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During the MobileMe mail outage today, I thought of a convenient way to check MobileMe’s status using Safari’s new Web Clip Widget:

(notice the error above: mobileme mail is down and it still says all services are okay… see apple’s correction on the next page)
Keep reading for the 3 easy steps to make your own MobileMe [...]

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Although much hasn’t changed with the iDisk after the switch from .Mac to MobileMe, I have noticed a couple welcome changes:

First, when uploading something to an iDisk, you get a real progress bar/file transfer box.

In the past, you would probably just see this box for a few seconds. It would close quickly, looking like [...]

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