On 5 May 2007, at 00:44, Michael Elliott wrote: > I also access my e-mail from both my home iMac and my MacBook. > What I see is the same in both situations: same inbox, sent mail, > etc. Is that a natural function of IMAP, and is there still a way > that my "sent" mail will be synchronized between the two? Yes, this is the joy of IMAP. The "master copy" of the messages are stored on the server, and IMAP synchronises your machine to its status. Consequently you always see the same unified view of your mail corpus, whether you access it via webmail or from regular clients on different machines. > ... I've recently noticed that my "sent mail" folder is only > keeping e-mails for 1 month, and then they're being removed. Now, > the regular AOL service removes sent mail after a month or so in > their own client, but I thought Mail could be set to keep the sent > mail indefinitely until I choose to delete it AOL are removing the copy from their servers - the IMAP account in Mail.app synchronises to reflect this & the older messages are deleted. :( > Mailbox Behaviors in Mail for the AOL account are set for "Store > sent messages on the server" as checked, with "never" under "Delete > messages when..." > > Should I un-check the "store sent messages on the server" setting? That's the most obvious solution - messages stored on your Mac can't be deleted by AOL. I can't see a way to synchronise sent items between your two Macs without using the IMAP Sent folder, tho'. Try making a "Sent2" folder on the server - AOLs scripts shouldn't delete older items from a folder that's named differently - then highlight it and in the Maibox menu "Use this mailbox for ... " "Sent". You may even be able to delete the old Sent Items folder. Are you sure that there isn't an option in AOL's software suite not to delete older sent messages? If none of these options work you might be able to write a Bash script or Automator action to one-way sync between IMAP & local folders, but I can think of disadvantages to this method. Stroller.