.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.INBOX.Apple Mail To Do/

To clarify what I did:

"The first thing I did was remove the offending INBOX.INBOX.etc entries in com.apple.mail.plist."

... in fact I edited those entries, correcting them, which meant removing one or more 'INBOX' parts of the string.

I think that MobileMe Sync might be part of the culprit in producing all these nested INBOX.INBOX.INBOX accounts. I've had this account cleaned up of nested inboxes for a while and today my desktop was showing this sync conflict:

!http://img.skitch.com/20090614-t9gd415fiftt9ahujjm2jk212.jpg!

I have not changed anything in this account so why the change now?

Has anyone else seen this behavior? Got any ideas?

Chip

I was able to get my IMAP e-mail back to normal by following this sites instructions. Basically I only needed to follow the instructions under setting mail.app straight. which basically has you tell the mail app which folders should be for trash, sent, etc... very easy fix.
http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2007/04/setting-up-imap-in-apple-mail/

for some reason google is flagging this site as "bad" but it is ok. if you are not comfortable, here is the text from the site:

Setting Mail.app Straight

Now that you’ve made sure the folders exist, in order for Mail.app to save your drafts or copies of your sent messages it needs to know where to put them, so this final step is the most important:

1. Click the folder name that matches the function you want to assign (e.g. “Sent”) so it is highlighted in the list
2. Go to Mailbox → Use This Mailbox For → [function name] (e.g. “Sent” again)

That’s all there is to it,your folder will disappear from the list, and reappear as a sub-folder beneath the function you specified, with the same name as the account it’s connected to. So, if your account name is “My IMAP Account”, the “Sent” folder will now be located under “Sent → My IMAP Account” in the Mail.app sidebar.

I still have this problem! I assigned the boxes for send etc but still after awhile the same problem comes up. It looks like it has something to do with ToDos and Notices.

Could someone tell me why Apple didn't fix this in the latest releases or is it my fault? I only use apple mail on my computer and iphone and it should not so complicated.

Anyway, help.help.help.help.help

I have had the same problem for a couple of weeks. This fixed it.

THANKS!

I fixed this very easily.

- closed mail.app & logged into webmail
- unsubscribed from all the inbox folders then saved
- go back into folder list and delete all inbox sub-folders
- opened mail.app and they disappeared

I use roundcube for webmail which made this very easy.

After trying everything I solved it by doing this:

- Open Mail.app
- Go to preferences --> Accounts --> Advanced (tab)
- Where it says "Imap Prefix: INBOX" erase the word INBOX and leave blank.
- Close Preferences.
- Delete de bothering INBOX folder on top of the other INBOXes
- Open Preferences again and retype INBOX where you left blank.
- Close Mail.app
- Open Mail.app

DONE!

It looks like Snow Leopard fixes this too. You have to delete de INBOX folder by right clicking on it and selecting "Delete Mailbox" and it is really gone this time.

I am having the same problem happen... I delete the first main "INBOX" but then any time I have Spam, when I go into that mailbox to delete the mail, the "INBOX" folders reappear again...

I have tried all of the above suggestions, but nothing seems to work??

Any others?

Interesting, Rob, about the junk mail folder, because that's what I'm suspecting is the culprit. I was doing just fine for quite a number of months until mail.app suggested that training time for junk mail filtering was over. I turned it on automatic, and soon after that the inboxes appeared.

I solved the nested inbox issue thus:

1. Quit Mail
2. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to trash (you can find it in your_user/library/preferences)
3. Restart Mail
4. Quit Mail
5. Move the new com.apple.mail.plist file to trash
6. Move the old com.apple.mail.plist from trash back into your_user/library/preferences
7. Restart Mail

I have no idea why this should have worked, but all the nested inboxes simply disappeared.

Message was edited by: tksalvo

Message was edited by: tksalvo

I cannot see how that can work at all. If there is an issue with the preference file, then you've simply created a new one, deleted it and then put the old corrupt one back in again!