Mail.app and multiple IMAP accounts

My new mailserver is up and running. I like slow migrations and just migrated one of my last domains.
The total number of imap-accounts in mail.app reached 4. For every account I selected “Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes”.
And at every start of mail.app, the application comes to a complete deadlock.

I was afraid it showed up to be an incompatibility with courier-imap, mail.app and synchronizing subfolders.

It took me a full day googling, hoping and lucky guesses.
The solution:

Max. of three accounts for a full sync. of all subfolders.
So you can add more accounts, but just take care that you not select “Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes”

With four mail.app stalls. Period.
I hope this will be solved in Tiger’s version of mail.app.

Thinksecret, Secret not think?

Today Apple has announced they are gonna sue thinksecret.com, for exposing trade secrets. My first reaction is: why waited so long? Nick de Plume of thinksecret was clearly abusing his NDA. He probably got an ADC account for only one reason: having priority access to pre-release builds. I myself have a ADC software seed key, and I don’t even discuss new features with my girlfriend, let alone posting them on the net. I don’t deny that I like reading rumoursites. But there are limits. Thinksecret.com broke those limits. I think that they will have to pay a reasonable ammount of money. And it will be justice, think off all the $$ they make with the advertisements.

On the other hand, it’s in my eyes a nice conformation off several rumours. It has been a while that Apple sued people for spreading sensitive information. Something big is probably happening in Cupertino.

Macrumors.com has an excerpt from the court filings:

“Apple has filed a civil complaint against the owner of ThinkSecret.com and unnamed individuals who we believe stole Apple’s trade secrets,” Apple said in its statement. “We believe that Think Secret solicited information about unreleased Apple products from these individuals, who violated their confidentiality agreements with Apple by providing details that were later posted on the Internet.”

In the suit, Apple outlines the damage that leaks cause, noting that disclosures give competitors a head start and hurt the buzz created around its products. “Unauthorized disclosures diminish the interest of both the mainstream and trade media in the launch of a new product,” Apple said.

Jippie!

My new iBook has been delivered this morning.
iBook G4 12″, 60 GB hd with built-in bluetooth.
The additional 512 MB of ram and the airport express are still in backorder, but are expected to arrive tomorrow.

I simply love the keyboard, the biggest improvement with the iBook G3.

Eric Meyer added to the Apple pro series

Eric Meyer has been added to the apple pro series. An entertaining story about the, at least in my eyes, guru of CSS.

Of course, he’s a dedicated Apple user during the article:

I’m so much more productive on a Mac that it’s almost silly. All of my books were written on Macs, as well as my online HTML tutorials at Case Western Reserve University. I absolutely swear by BBEdit, which is Mac-only.

Apple - Pro/Words - Eric Meyer

Power Mac G4 and G5 versus Pentium 4, Dual Xeon, and Dual Athlon

Always nice. Benchmarks which make it quit clear the G5 blows away the intel/amd competetors.

Power Mac G4 and G5 versus Pentium 4, Dual Xeon, and Dual Athlon