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

Thanks Tonyc19v. Glad you are having success w Airmail. I echo your sentiments, just so surprising that in the Post-Jobs era a mission critical app like Mail could go broken for so long. Good luck w Airmail.

I have a workaround. Annoying, but it works. Use the following script whenever you want to force a sync:

tell application "Mail"

set myAccounts to name of every account

repeat with myAccount in myAccounts

tell imap accountmyAccount

try

if enabled then

set enabled to false

set enabled to true

end if

end try

end tell

end repeat

end tell

If you want this happening automatically, say every 5 minutes, extend the above script as follows, and save it as an application with the option to keep it running:

on idle

tell application "Mail"

set myAccounts to name of every account

repeat with myAccount in myAccounts

tell imap accountmyAccount

try

if enabled then

set enabled to false

set enabled to true

end if

end try

end tell

end repeat

end tell

return 300

end idle

I've been having this problem for awhile now as well and have recently made a change that I think has helped and hopefully more of you can confirm the same success (assuming you have similar setups).

I own a MacBook Pro, iPhone, and iPad – all configured to check my IMAP mail at GoDaddy. I recently set my iPhone and iPad to "manually" check mail as opposed to "fetch". I close the Mail app on both devices while I'm at my computer and my mail retrieval seems to be MUCH improved. I don't have much more than a few days with this setup but so far so good.

The following script works in a more transparent way (it willnot periodically put your accounts offline). It works for me.

on idle

if application "Mail" is running then

tell application "Mail"

repeat until (background activity count) = 0

delay 10

end repeat

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Mail"

set theMenu to menu "Mailbox" of menu bar 1

if enabled of menu item "Take All Accounts Offline" of theMenu then

try

click menu item "Take All Accounts Offline" of theMenu

end try

repeat until enabled of menu item "Take All Accounts Online" of theMenu

end repeat

try

click menu item "Take All Accounts Online" of theMenu

end try

end if

end tell

end tell

end if

return 300

end idle

Dear Yankee,

I think you are on the right track. The "fetch" issues too many requests to the IMAP server and with multiple devices from the same IP-address hitting the same user-ID the maximum number of connections is exceeded. I reduced my handheld devices and the problem got (slightly) better on one email account. The other account (with a different provider) was blocked several times a day due to suspected DoS attack because too many requests were coming from my 4 devices (and also from icloud?), after I removed two of them (and icloud!) the problem with this provider was gone.

For my iphone I disabled the WiFi at home (and thus it was now hitting the IMAP server from a different IP-address via the mobile phone network) and the problem immediately stopped on this device.

I am also having this problem and its very fristerating. Outlook 2011 works like a charm however. Overall its the superior client but Mail does have a few advantages.

Hey! So I tried changing setting in gmail because that is where my email is stored and I think the below settings corrected everything. I think the problem is acutally gmail not apple. Make sure you sync in your mail account too before you even make any changes.

Yogie2010, this solution seems to work for me. Although I tried having Gmail "archive" instead of "move to the trash" in the 3rd setting there.

I found that my Gmail IMAP settings (located in Settings on the Gmail website) had limited IMAP folders to 1,000. By selecting "Do not limit..." I was able to download my mailbox's history. Thanks yogie.

anyone tried this:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5475657?answerId=25550621022#25550621022

i have and all my counts are now correct. i know its not 'core' problem but the count thing is sort of linked to the issues being recieved...

this has worked for me...

I've been a mac user for a long time. Their software seems to be slipping a bit. Why the heck do I have to rebuild my mailboxes all the time for IMAP to work?

APPLE PLEASE NOTE: Email is one of the OLDEST pieces of the internet. You look REALLY bad here.

I fought with this for two weeks before I found a solution. Create a new account following these instructions. Substitute the server names and ports you need to set up your account. Don't add "mail." to the server name unless that is really part of the server's name. There's something weird about having to use the email address as a user name that this fixes. Good Luck.

I have the same problems with my IMAP GoDaddy email on my macbook pro (2009) OS 10.8.5, apple mail 6.6 (1510). I never had this problem with 10.6.8. I recently upgraded my os so thought maybe that was the problem.

Email syncs eventually but chuncks of them are about 12-18 hours behind. iPhone, iPad sync perfectly and immediately. Strangely, if I send a test, I will receive it, but all the emails that should've come in for the previous 12 hours haven't synced yet.

Incidentally, I have another GoDaddy IMAP account that syncs just fine in apple mail.

GoDaddy says it's not their problem if the email is sending and receiving online.

Apple says it's GoDaddy's problem.

A very simple solution if you have 2-step verification turned on in Gmail: you need to make sure that your passwords are taken from the 2-step verification code, not from your normal Google accounts password, and you need to have this saved in three places:

1. System Preferences/Internet Accounts: Google settings/ Details/ (password)

2. Mail App Accounts/ Account information (password)

3. Mail App Accounts/ SMTP outgoing server settings/Advanced (password)

That should solve your issues.

What about non-google IMAP accounts?