I came across this tidbit of information at macosxhints.com that shows you how you can get push email functionality from Apple’s Mail client using Gmail.

the only things you need to do are:

1. Go into Mail » Preferences » Accounts (Advanced) and make sure that Use IDLE command if the server supports it is enabled (it’s enabled by default).
2. (This is the fun part) Again go into Mail » Preferences » General and set Check for new Mail to Manually.

Now send yourself a new message (preferably from a different account) and watch the fun.

This is great! I know there have been times where I was expecting an email, and I was so impatient to see it, that when clicking ‘Get Mail’ produced no results, I just logged into the webmail client instead. This way, my Gmail is pushed to Apple Mail, and I’ll never have to wait again.

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  Disposable email addresses

At work, we use IMAP for our email service. This is great because I can get my email no matter where I’ve logged in, but Outlook doesn’t play nice with IMAP (probably because Microsoft wants us to use an Exchange server). So, I use Mozilla Thunderbird (or Thunderchicken as a friend of mine says).

Thunderbird is the best IMAP client that I’ve ever used, but like most email clients, it occasionally has problems with attachments sent from Outlook users. Outlook has a tendency to send attachments in the Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF). So, if you’ve ever seen a winmail.dat attachment, this is why.

Fortunately for Thunderbird users, there’s an extension called LookOut that allows you to open files inside the winmail.dat attachment.

Crisis averted.

Other solutions for the winmail.dat problem.

I stopped using Gmail as a host for my domain email today. I decided to install RoundCube Webmail on my web server instead. This way I could use IMAP and have may mail synced in both Apple Mail and webmail.

This only took a few minutes to do because there isn’t much setup required in RoundCube Webmail. The thing I had trouble with was spam. I have my email forwarded to my blackberry, and there is no way for me to forward only legitimate mail. I either get all mail, or no mail.

The solution I came up with is to use Gmail as a spam filter. It’s a pretty simple idea really. I just forward all of my mail to Gmail, and have Gmail forward all of that mail to my Blackberry. Gmail doesn’t forward any spam email, so all I get is the good stuff.

Hopefully some of you out there will find this useful.