[nlz2]

My mail has worked fine for about six months now, and all of a sudden after the internet was down at my house and time warner came and fixed it, I can't see any emails in my inbox. I use IMAP with my school, and the school server is fine, but i see nothing in my inbox.

Wierd.
Nick.

[Gavin]

Did you find a solution to this?

I have a similar problem. Mail.app suddenly won't log in to my imap server. The connecting message sits there spinning on the message bar until it finally times out.


I tryed it from another computer and it works fine.


I've tried throwing out (OK, moving to the desktop) the perfs and the whole mail folder and setting it up from scratch.
Still doesn't work.

Any ideas?

[Gavin]

Just solved it!


There is a folder in the caches folder: ~/Library/Caches/Mail

I deleted the folder then started Mail. Now it connects to the imap server again.



This folder had 5 MB of small binary files, none more than a couple months old. Any idea what it's keeping? I'd guess the folder indexes it always seems to be building. And maybe html pages.