How to limit max IMAP connections in mail.app?

Hi folks,
due to Mailserver configuration limitations from Provider side like courier-imap settings "maxperip" = 4, some (like me) may have problems to use or connect more than one imap-account to the same server in mail.app.
In thunderbird you have the option to configure the max open connections per imap-account. If set to 1 connection, i'm able to use 4 imap-accounts.
But how to configure this in mail.app???
Thanks in advance,
paranoja

oh, as i found this seems to be an unfixed an verry old problem.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5820548
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6204843&#6204843
It's really a shame that apple didn't fixed it since the problem is from 2007!!!
It seems that there was a key "CacheOveraggressively" in com.apple.mail.plist in earlier versions, but i can't find it there with Version 3.5 (930.3)!
Seems that the only real solution for now is to use thunderbird......
P.S.: Mail in IPodTouch has of course the same Problem!

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