Are there downsides to having gmail or aol email accounts in MAIL?

Hi,
My friend has an aol, gmail and .mac email accounts-he's not happy w/ MAIL.
He is annoyed that if he's away from his main computer and sends emails via the internet (like in gmail) - that there is no way to have his SENT emails download onto his computer. Is there anyway to get that to work?
I keep telling him to lose the aol account - don't they just stink with MAIL?
Thanks in advance...

I'm not sure for AOL, but Gmail offers IMAP support as well as POP 3. The default setting is POP 3 and that might be the reason that your friend can't see the e-mails sent from the browser on his Mac. But if he uses Gmail IMAP then he should see everything. .Mac works the same way as your friend should know since he also have a .Mac account.
Note: Leopard Mail uses POP 3 by default, if you choose to use IMAP then uncheck the create account automatically option.

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I'm new to Mac, and I love my macbook but I can't figure out how to set up my aol email accounts using imail. Is that possible? I have two aol email accounts and I've been going on aol.com to check my messages but lately it hasn't been loading so I don't know what to do!
How can I sync my aol email accounts with imail? Is aol considered IMAP?
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Yes, AOL accounts must be set up as IMAP in Mail, but AOL has a lot of idiosyncrasies and some really nasty “features” that normal IMAP accounts don’t have and that you should be aware of.
To more easily set up your AOL account in Mail, you may use AOL Service Assistant, which also provides assistance for using other AOL services in Mac OS X.
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These instructions are for Mail 1.3, and are somewhat outdated, but they can be used for Mail 2.x as well noting that the Special Mailboxes preference pane is called Mailbox Behaviors in Mail 2.x, and I believe you can now enable SSL for both the incoming (Preferences > Accounts > Advanced) and the outgoing mail server if you wish.
Instead of the settings shown in the article for Trash, you may want to turn ON Move deleted messages to the Trash, but in that case you should turn OFF Store deleted messages on the server.
AOL doesn’t let IMAP clients such as Mail to create or manage mailboxes at the root level of the account directory, only as subfolders of Saved — that’s why you must turn OFF Store messages on the server for all the mailboxes in Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors, so that they are stored locally instead.
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Hey gang,
Since a couple of weeks I'm having this weird problem with my host (EMail Web space) provider.
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