IMAP support broken in iOS 7?

Just got an answer for my bugreport as well. My issue is, that after some hours no new emails are being downloaded from the imap server. I need to readd the server to get it working again.

They asked me to extract the device console logs with the iPhone config utility while reproducing the error.

But I do not see any logs while the device tries to connect to the server to fetch emails.

Any ideas?

I have no IMAP errors after fixing the Delete Emails issue with the solution I posted above.

I am using IOS 7.0. Can someone confirm they are having the problem with this version? Does the problem only occur with IOS 7.0.2?

Just trying to find out if it has something to do with the IOS version.

I see the same problem - deleted e-mails not being deleted - on all my iOS 7.0.2 devices. My wife's iphone which is still on iOS 7.0.0 does not exhibit the problem.

To recreate the issue:

delete one or more e-mails

exit the e-mail app

restart the e-mail app

the deleted email(s) will still be in the inbox

This is running against a local UW imap server which has been working with earlier iOS versions and other e-mail clients for years. No recent changes have been made to the imap server - the iOS upgrade is the only change.

Ilkka66 wrote:

I really hope that Apple solves this issue with IOS 7.0.3.

The IMAP message deletion problem still seems to be here for me, on 7.0.3. 😟

Still a problem for me with 7.0.3.

I just updated my iPhone to 7.0.3 and can no longer reproduce the e-mail delete issue. I will update my iPad tomorrow and report back.

ajm492 wrote:

I just updated my iPhone to 7.0.3 and can no longer reproduce the e-mail delete issue.

Wait a few hours and try it agian on your phone. Per my post above I found that it seemed to work with 7.0.2 for a while after the phone booted but stopped working by the time I checked again an hour or two later.

8 hours so far & appears to be fixed after 7.0.3 update

prior to update i tried going to settings & change the delete & archive targets to different mailboxes, saved those changes then restored back to the original delete & archive targets. it didn't work, but there might have been something that got picked up when i rebooted the ipad during the upgrade...

it may be other factors that are affecting this , to - relating to reboot rather than updates.

Still working this morning on 7.0.3.

SteveYates wrote:

Ilkka66 wrote:

I really hope that Apple solves this issue with IOS 7.0.3.

The IMAP message deletion problem still seems to be here for me, on 7.0.3. 😟

I updated iPhone 4S to IOS 7.0.3 and the same problem persisted for me, too. For some reason, my iPad 4 works correctly with the same mailbox and the same settings with IOS 7.0.3 (and probably worked with IOS 7.0.2). So the problem must be somehow intermittent, too.

7.3 has not fixed the problem. Deleting an email from the device does delete it from the IMAP server inbox, but the message continues to reappear on the device. This is certainly the case with the UW IMAP account (that worked error free under IOS 6 versions), but seems to affect many other accounts also, judging by the threads available.

I think that there are multiple IMAP issues mentioned on this thread. My problem, that exists on both my iPhone 4S and my iPad mini are that I have an IMAP account (thru Godaddy) and after a day or maybe less, it won't refresh. So I can go to web mail and see new mail, but when I go into the mail client on the iPad, it won't show the new mail. It might even say that it's downloading 15 messages but then it says it's updated and nothing new is there. When I delete and re-add the account, it'll work properly again, including deleting or new mail being read, showing up on web mail too. But it just eventually quits working all by itself and I have to repeat the process.

I just updated to 7.0.3 and if it continues to work (I just deleted and re-added the account), I'll post on the thread.