Create Subfolder Under Inbox in Mail

This is just one example of the things you cannot do on mac among other things I discover on a weekly basis. Does it make sense to sacrifice all this time and have all these frustrations for the sake of nice design and durable machines?

No that is not what the question is. why can't it be right under the inbox, rather than down below. Very unfriendly

All of the above solutions don't seem to work very well. In Sierra, all my mailboxes disappeared as one user stated. A simple restart of Mail brought everything back.

The method I use (and not everyone can do this) is to add the mailbox to another PC or Mac-based Outlook Exchange server account that is the same as your Mac Mail account. Outlook allows adding folders under the Inbox b/c it creates a new sub account under its own Inbox. That will automatically populate the new mailbox under the Inbox on the Mac based Exchange account. I do this almost everywhere, as the Exchange server is a good place to keep the backup of your email. Well, it's a lot better system than I could ever create, anyway. It's amazingly fast to populate your entire email environment (providing the PC or Mac has enough space).

What my problem is, earlier I created sub folders in inbox as I preferred but now it's not possible and always pop up a massage box saying server issue!!!! How can I fix this???? Please help, thanks in advance.

This can be done easily, though it's undocumented. When you create a "new mailbox" Type Inbox/NewFolder and it will create NewFolder under your Inbox as expected. Took me a couple hours to figure out, but definitely works.

Not to doubt you, but did you do this with the Inbox of a POP account?

Ernie

No, this was performed on an IMAP account. POP3 doesn't traditionally deal with additional folders so if you're using POP3 the point is moot.

I know this, but you seemed to post in contradiction to what I had already posted. What you found is documented in the manner that I explained. You merely created the IMAP Path Prefix directly for the one new folder.

Btw, not every IMAP server will allow this.

Ernie

You are incorrect. You stated you had to set the IMAP Prefix in Advanced Settings. What I said was this isn't necessary as you can specify the root IMAP folder when creating a "new mailbox" without needing to muck with your settings in order to create a subfolder under the inbox, which if you read, is exactly what the original poster was attempting to do.

You're also incorrect that "not every IMAP server will allow this", every IMAP server will allow you to create subfolders under the "root". Read the RFC if you don't understand IMAP's capabilities. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501

you can also create a rule to move new mail to a subfolder

one thing though, this works better with gmail IMAP

you need to create the folder first, then after that go to preferences, select the rules tab, click add rule

settings are up to you and you should select to move the messages to your new folder

First of all, what I said in response to you, is that your entering INBOX where you did, accomplished for that one folder what entering it in the IMAP Path Prefix box would accomplish for all new mail folders when created.

Secondly, I believe you will find servers that by administration block this -- I believe that Gmail does so. Three advisories for university situations appear to do so -- see:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Support/KB/Docs/GeneralEmailSettings

http://kb.iu.edu/data/ajnm.html

and

http://uits.arizona.edu/services/email_clients/ssl?id=ssl

Other enterprise administered servers preset where folders can be, and therefore may not operate in the manner you expect.

Ernie