Problems with IMAP

ok, I found the solution in another thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5657169#5657169

I wonder how long it will take Apple to provide a patch for this problem.. Very irritating that will all the testing they did, they didn't catch something as simple as this.

FYI... I got through to Level 2 support on this issue and they are aware of it now. He couldn't offer me a time table but we did replicate it from an upgrade of an existing OS and existing IMAP mail account as well as from creating a new user account and then creating a fresh IMAP account. Anybody having this issue with a server other than Alt-N's mDaemon?

In the meantime, use Mozilla Thunderbird. That's what I'm doing.

I'm having the same problem with Apple Mail 3 and MDaemon 8.1.1. No messages, just folders. Old mail showed up, but when I recreated the account, no mail shows up. Creating the account took 15 minutes or more due to extreme waiting period accessing outgoing/incoming mail server (usually takes seconds).

I downloaded, installed and set up Thunderbird in a fraction of the time it took just to connect to the outgoing mailserver. Oh, and it works--Just got my first spam message of the day!

BTW: I was using Mailtags (it was made inactive by mail the first time it was opened). This plugin effects IMAP mail headers so it might be related. Anyone else using Mailtags?

Having similar problems with Aplus.net hosted mail. Mainly I cannot move between folders, particularly the deleted mails.

Interesting... I did have a demo of Mailtags at one point. I'm going to try a fresh mDaemon account with nothing in it. Will let you know.

NG...

I created a fresh brand new user account on the mail server. Sent myself one text message to the new address and still have the exact same problem.

Can't blame MailTags.

In Tiger, I seem to remember the address/server verification step in creating an account taking a bit longer than I would expect. Maybe now, its just exacerbated with Leopard.

I also tried different authentication methods.... no good either.

Aol mail which is Imap also fails to delete and other things such as above, and AOL,is lot of servers.

All, I had the same problems this afternoon. If you go into mail preferences and completely reset your account it will resolve the problem. You won't lose emails as they are stored on the servers and they eventually come back to your email accounts. It only took mine a minute or two to forward. I did perform a complete backup of my email before I reset my account just to be on the safe side. Hope this helps and good luck.

You'll need to explain what "completely reset your account" means. I've set up a new account "from scratch" and no luck. Again, using MDaemon as my mail server.

John,

In the case of an AOL account, if you create a New Mailbox, say named Deleted Messages in the Saved folder of AOL, and once it is create, open it, click on Mailbox in the menubar, then Use This Mailbox for and choose Trash, it will move to be under the Trash, and deletion will be successful.

The reason it must done this way, is that AOL limits all messages other than those in the Saved folder to be temporary (27 days limit to be exact). Creating a folder on the AOL server must be done through the Saved folder.

Ernie

Yep, same problem here. Mail wont show mails from my MDaemon server.

Regards, Hans

I'm seeing something very similar: all of my accounts show an exclamation point and a message that they are unable to log in. Attempting to log in the account does not work, but I do get an interesting message in the console log:

*28-10-07 0:08:12 Mail[1264] no entry for mailbox id 20 in the cache; this should never happen*

Has anybody else seen this error (or something similar) in the logs?

Hi,

Similar problems here.

On 10.4 it was all working - 3 apple machines with Mail 2.0 (with various plugins), plus web access.

My environment is:
Host - linux Suse
Mail system - Postfix (virtual address i.e. like an ISP)
imap/pop3 server - Dovecot
Webmail from - Squirrel mail

Like many of you I have reinstalled, reconfigured, tested ... etc.

My issues are:
1. Without Mail.app 3 running - mail arrives and is processed by Postfix and can be seen in Squirrel mail with is good, as soon as I run up any Mail.app 3 the mail disappears. If mail is running the mail is never seen and is lost!
2. I have had the same problem with the folder structure being received but no contents - I have found this inconsistent (sometimes it does / other times not)
3. I cannot get the mail notification sound to work on imap - works fine on pop3!

I was just about to investigate returning to Mail 2.0 but reading below does not look hopeful.

It's a disaster and I may have to return all machines to 10.4, I cannot believe how bad this is and feel I must have got something wrong.

Any thoughts or comments very welcome.

It seems to me that the problem is that Mail 3 doesn't create any references (local files in ~/Library/Mail) to messages received from the email server. If I move a message from another account on a working configuration into a folder on my account running MDaemon the message appears both in Mail 3 and when checking the same account in Mail 2.

Also there seems to be no errors on the serverside when getting messages. I've checked the session-logs on my server and they indicate that messages are in fact beeing requested and sent back to the client.
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Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] Accepting IMAP connection from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:83065]
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 I523 2] SSL neaotiation successful ITLS 1 0 2048 bit kev exchanae 128 bit RC4 encrvntic
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> OK mail.xxx.xx 1MAP4rev1 MDaemon 8.1.1 ready
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 1.226 CAPABILITY
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> "CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE AUTH=CRAM-MD5AUTH=LOGIN ID...
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 1.226 OK CAPABILITY completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 2.226 AUTHENTICATE CRAM-MD5
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> + PExxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- Y2xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2l Authenticated as carl@xxx.xx
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 2.226 OK AUTHENTICATE completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] < - 3.226 CAPABILITY
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> "CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 NAMESPACE AUTH=CRAM-MD5AUTH=LOGIN ID...
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 3.226 OK CAPABILITY completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 4.226 LIST "" ""
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *LIST (\Noselect) "/" ""
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 4.226 OK LIST completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 I523 2] <-- 5.226 SELECT INBOX/Arkiv
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft \Recent)
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *2 EXISTS
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *0 RECENT
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *OK [UNSEEN 1] first unseen
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 I523 2] --> *OK IUIDVALIDITY 1144211429] UIDs valid
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *OK [UIDNEXT 41 Predicted next UID
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> *OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft)]
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 5.226 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 6.226 FETCH 1:2 (FLAGS UID)
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] *1 FETCH (FLAGS () UID 1)
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] *2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen) UID 2)
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 6.226 OK FETCH completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 7.226 UID FETCH 1 2 (INTERNALDATE UID RFC822 SIZE FLAGS BODY PEE...
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] *1 FETCH (UID 1 INTERNALDATE "27-Oct-2007 12 26 22 +0100" RFC822 SIZE...
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] *2 FETCH (UID 2 INTERNALDATE "27-Oct-2007 12 04 03 +0100" RFC822 SIZE...
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 7.226 OK FETCH completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 8.226 UID FETCH 3 (BODYSTRUCTURE BODY PEEK[])
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 8.226 OK FETCH completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 3.226 UID FETCH 3 (BODYSTRUCTURE BODY PEEK[])
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 3.226 OK FETCH completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 10.226 UID FETCH 3 (BODYSTRUCTURE BODY PEEK[])
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> 10.226 OK FETCH completed
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] <-- 11.226 IDLE
Sun 2007-10-28 08 50 23 [523 2] --> + idling
Sun 2007-10-28 08 57 01 I523 2] --> 11.226 OK IDLE terminated
Sun 2007-10-28 08 57 01 [523 2] < - 12.226 CLOSE
Sun 2007-10-28 08 57 01 [523 2] --> 12.226 OK CLOSE completed