Disappearing IMAP Inbox messages
messages in my Mail inbox. After first connecting to my mail account
several recently received messages appear in the Mail inbox, but many
older messages fail to be listed. If I select another folder, then
return to the inbox, it appears to be empty. Accessing my account
with a different IMAP client (Mail from 10.3, Pine, Squirrelmail)
shows the "disappeared" inbox messages to be intact - so this is an
OSX/Tiger problem.
I have seen several other references to this and similar problems on
this and other lists. I am running the most recent Mail update
(Version 2.0.2 732/733) with the most recent version of Tiger
(10.4.2). My problem is not die to an out-of-date Mail app, and it
can't be solved by trashing the com.apple.mail.plist preferences file
and Mail preferences folder and reconfiguring from scratch. Just
waiting doesn't help either.
The Mail app in 10.3 works fine. Other IMAP mail clients work fine.
Tiger mail is seriously broken. Is anyone from Apple listening?
More Detail:
I have a single mail account that uses authenticated IMAP and SMTP. I
have 222 saved mail folders and about three thousand messages in my
send-mail folder. If I replace my ~/mail folder on the mail server
with an empty folder, then the Tiger Mail app appears to function
normally. I've only looked at this for a few minutes, so it seems
promising. However, this isn't a solution to the problem. I need my
mail client to work properly with all of my mail - saved and new.
Thanks,
Chance