iPhone Mail does not poll IMAP subfolders for server-side processed e-mails

Christ almighty, you think this would be solvable. I am having the exact same problem. I would like to leave the outlook universe and use my online Gmail account as a catch all for all my other accounts (using POP to poll their accounts) and then use IMAP to get all the emails (with appropriate labels\folders corresponding to their respective accounts) to the iphone. BUT NOOOOO, without the notifications for subfolders, this is basically impossible.

This is a functionality that I would jailbreak in a second for, but, for the life of me, cannot find any answer in the jailbreak community either. Frustrated only begins to describe me at the moment.

One option might even be to just push all the mail into the inbox and drop that down to the iphone, but the main inbox view does not show the recipient (or show the gmail label which, in my case, identifies the recipient email account). I have to drill down into the message, then into the "details" to determine what account the email was sent to. Any solution there, as merely a stopgap until apple can wake up on the subfolder issue?

Message was edited by: ReedWilliams10

Just keeping this alive.

Please implement a subscribe function for IMAP email. It should be a standard feature for a mail client. Thunderbird, Evolution, Outlook, and other email clients can all do it.

um... I have a stupid question:

Why not change all your mail filtering rules to COPY message instead of Move?

Then you get all of your messages on the inbox on the iPhone and they are still organized in all of your subfolders on the desk top. When you get back to the desktop, go to the inbox and delete all of today's messages because the copies are already in the sub-folders.

Jane,

That definitely would work, but it's the very definition of a workaround, ie, it's ok, but not optimal. The problem is that with other mail clients that support IMAP, this is a very basic component that is practically a standard. The fact that Apple overlooked this is very disheartening, since they are known to have excellent software.

Thank you for the response.

Offline, I can speculate about technical or financial barriers that might prevent Apple from offering that capability. Online - in compliance with the TOU - I cannot speculate. 😉

Rather than bumping and adding to this thread, it might be more effective to ask everyone who wants subfolder updating on the iPhone to make that request directly to Apple on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Oh gee, look. I just bumped the thread ...

ibisMail has just been upgraded to version 1.4. It seems more stable than version 1.3.


The topic used to be "iPhone Mail does not 'POLL' IMAP subfolders for server-side processed e-mails".

ibisMail does the 'POLLING' for INBOX and all the subfolders that you set to be polled.