Mavericks Mail not sync'ing IMAP act. (Not GMail)

I am just like the rest of you. This stinks. I see gmail on my iphone and ipad but when i am on imac, those emails do not appear even after i turn on and off the mail program. They only show up when i reboot and start mail program then. Come on Apple, please fix this.

Yes, it's an ugly workaround from Apple but I've found that Take All Accounts Offline followed by Take All Account Online works 100% of the time. The key is to wait for all accounts to go fully offline (as indicated by the squigly icon next to each account) before invoking the go online command.

Worked for me, too! Thanks for the prompt.

Hi,

I think I have some good news. I was having all the problems discussed here and following a letter to Tim Cook, was asked to be in the seed program for 10.9.2. The first few updates did nothing for me but with the latest update and with unchecking show All Mail in Gmail settings and letting Mail rebuild those mailboxes, I am now satisfied with Mail's performance. I have not downloaded today's final 10.9.2 update, but if it performs as well as the latest seed, then we should all be happier campers.

Fingers crossed.

Bob

Bob,

That is indeed very encouraging news. I had given up the will to email (with Apple Mail at least) and have converted to Airmail - which is actually very good. There are some minor problems in Airmail, more annoyances really - and very few of them, but nothing like the Apple mail problems. At least it delivers my Gmail immediately and keep in sync with my iPhone and iPad. So I've been happy to use it, and ignore all the crazy 'work arounds' that seem to be required to get Apple Mail to work, occassionally. Let's face it, it isn't fixed.

But this is really encouraging. Bob, please do keep us all updated as 10.9.2 progresses towards release. I would switch back to Mail if they finally do fix the problems. But boy, has Mavericks and Mail dented my confidence in Apple....

Tony

it also seems to be working at least for 1/2 day for me too.

I hope this works, I am installing it now....

Bob, please do keep us all updated as 10.9.2 progresses towards release.

10.9.2 was released earlier today.

I've been battling this same issue. It's amazing that I can get my business gmail on a crappy blackberry and can't get it on my mac. I've been using the offline-online manuver when ever i'd get an email to the phone.

Any word when the 10.9.2 will be out? I just checked for updates and my system doesn't show any.

it is out now today

Ok guys n gals... so check this out.

It WAS working kinda good for me BEFORE I updated to 10.9.2.

And now, all messages are out of sync again.

I'm going bonkers.

Tim, if you read this... I'm out man!

This is just INSANELY rediculous.

I'm going to delete and re-ad my mailboxes and if that fails, I'll trash my MBP, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and send it to Cupertino along with an invoice for waisting weeks of my precious time and endangering my business.

Installing the delta update did not resolve it, but installing the combo did.

Let's give it a try!

I downloaded the OS 10.9.2 update last night and fully expected it to immediately solve the Mail issuues, following Bob's note earlier yesterday.

But it didn't, initially. Still had all the syncing issues with iPad, iPhone, and Airmail (that I had been using very successfully for some time, in place of Mail). But then I read Bob's post again, and went back and unchecked the IMAP 'all mail' boxes in my 3 Gmail accounts, and then re built the mailboxes.

And now Mail seems to be working perfectly 🙂 So I've switched back to Mail (and will keep Airmail going in the background for a couple of weeks to double check Mail stays in sync).

Disapointing that its taken Apple 4 months to fix this, and even then it isn't exactly plug-and-play for Gmail accounts. But a huge step forwards nevertheless.

Tony

...so we think rebuild each mailbox after update? i have MBP and Mini in OS Mavericks, so update them both, and rebuild both?

Rebuild is rebuilding the DB as a whole is it? Or does rebuilding rebuild each account?

any dangers i need to be aware of rebuilding?

Backup before you start.