Existing IMAP notes not available in notes app after mountain lion installation

I'll add my two cents as well. I'm getting the exact same problem with my own mail server (running courier-imap with prefix "INBOX"); iPhone works fine, Mountain Lion doesn't.

Update: I sent a feedback item to http://apple.com/feedback/ with a description of my problem and a link to this thread. Hopefully, that'll help speed things along.

This issue has not been addressed with the 10.8.2 update.

This is the type of "crappy monopolistic behavior" that will probably make me stop buying Apple products very soon.

Apple introduced iCloud and now is forcing everyone to use it to sync stuff like notes. Was that easy to allow iTunes to do it as well like in the past? Seriously?

Note to guys at Apple: With all the respect (because most of you are just making what have been told to) go f**** yourselfs over.

By a lot of reasons starting with privacy and ending in coporate/government policies it's actually impossible for professional user to use your **** s*** cloud services.

I bet with all of you guys that Apple won't fix this IMAP issue. And yes I tried to set the inbox path and it's still not working... but on my iPhone (iOS 5) it is working and correctly sending the notes to the server...

Have a nice day.

AGreed. Write to:

APpleinsider.com

MAcrumors.com

GEt them to write stories. Apple doesn't like to have bad PR. Nothing else will work. They're too focused on selling, not making things work for the users that aren't buying into iCloud.

I sent an email to the Wall Street Journal Walt Mossberg a few weeks ago when the paper was full of bug reports about the new apple OS, but also did not get any reaction.

I Don't understand what makes one thing that's not actually so horrible worthy of mass media attention and something else that's equally demonstrable as a broken new product less worthy of attention (and outright ignored).

I've emailed some websites but no answers so far.

Sorry about my answer before, but I was overreacting to this, the real issue here are legal concerns. For instance in European countries is actually illegal to store company data in the iCloud since most of the servers are located outside of the countries. Before you say that I also send emails, yes I sent them with company data but using service providers located in my own country.

Apart from the legal issues, nobody would want to depend on Apple and Internet connection to sync some notes, it's just stupid. Private information MUST remain private.

Have a nice day.

I have fastmail and this worked for me. What a relief. I have been searching for a solution for almost a year now. Thank you!!

This has been bothering me for a while and I have figured it out - at least partially.

The problem is with encrypted passwords in Notes.app in 10.8.x (including 10.8.3). iOS devices do not seem to have this problem.

If you have Mail server setup properly you've probably disabled cleartext passwords (and most of these 3rd party sites do too I'm sure) -- Mail.app connects via SSL easily and has no trouble but Notes.app doesn't seem to want to use an encrypted connection for some stupid reason.

I changed my 10.8.3 server to allow cleartext passwords (and of course blocked the ports at the router firewall) and BOOM all my devices are talking via Notes.app again. Desktop, laptop, iPad & iPhone are in sync. Now this is fine for my desktop and iOS devices but my laptop will now only sync notes when I connect at home, when I'm at work or travelling it will not 😠... at least until Apple fixes this.

Problem solved with today's MacOS update. Works for me now with BlueHost. Finally. It took long enough for a simple fix like that.

The continuation of this stupid flaw for so long had me so pessimistic that I hadn't even thought to check if this latest update fixed it. I have opened my Notes application on my updated MacBook and, while it now shows my two IMAP stored notes, creating a new note in that account from the MacBook doesn't show on my iPhone. The reverse is also true (iPhone made note doesn't show on MacBook). The title bar says "Updating..." but this never clears.

I've closed and reopened both software and tried again. No change.

Essentially, while it has decided to show me notes it wouldn't see before, this apparently is a one time event, and nothing has really changed. I still cannot use this feature. This is not an improvement. Pessimism validated.

(My ISP is host gator)

Woops, spoke too soon!!

30 minutes later, while fussing with settings, i checked my iCloud preferences (didn't change anything!!) and it suddenly told me there was no networking. Funny, since i was using Safari and Facebook at that moment and my wireless signal was fine. But, after telling it to troubleshoot, it tells me that my configuration changed (no it didn't) and suddenly the new notes appeared at both the Mac Notes app and the iPhone Notes app. Hm. Tested again... and it apparently DOES WORK!

FINALLY!!

Dunno what the problem was in getting synchronized, but it's doing what they say it's supposed to do, at last.

YAY!!

For me, everything worked fine again, after …

• *REMOVING* in MacOS the "IMAP path prefix" (in the System Pref Pane "Mail, Contacts & Calendar" under "More Options...")
• *ADDING* the "IMAP path prefix" "INBOX" in iOS (in System Preferences, "Mail, Contacts, Calendar" >"Accounts" > "IMAP Account (account name)" > "Advanced" > "Incoming settings": "IMAP Path Prefix"

I work with MacOS 10.8.5, AppleMail 6.6, Notes 1.5 (107) and iOS 7.0, iPhone Mail (11A465)

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I finally fixed this in 10.9 (might work in 10.8) by changing my prefix to something other than "INBOX", opening Notes, closing Notes, replacing my prefix with "INBOX". Now Notes requests the mailbox "INBOX.Notes" instead of "Notes" as it did after 10.8 upgrade.