Gmail IMAP is really impressive when used with Leopard's Mail.app and an iPhone. It is about 100 times better when used with a couple plugins such as WideMail and Mail Act-On. Mail Act-On can make organizing mulitple Gmail IMAP accounts much simpler. This is going to be poorly explained, but I just thought it was so (geeky) cool I had to try.
Basically, I have three Gmail IMAP accounts set up in Mail.app. Each one of these has it's own respective "All Mail" folder. If you want to keep a piece of mail outside of your inbox but still save it, you must drag it to your All Mail folder. Anyway, doing this for three different All Mail folders is annoying. Luckily Mail Act-On is pretty smart. If you set up three different Act-On rules for moving messages, each with the same hot key:
Yet set each rule for a different account:
Mail Act-On is smart enough to move it to the right account's mailbox. I know this isn't that special, and I'm sure it's just due to the nature of Mail's rules, but it is still awesome. You just have to remember one hot key for an unlimited number of accounts! Yay!
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