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Mail IMAP help needed
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Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: San Francisco
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I have an IMAP account that seems to work fine between my portable and my desktop, but I have now introduced my Palm and things are getting screwy. Now my palm will pick up new messages, but then neither of my computers will get them. I am using Chatter on my Palm and it is set up for IMAP. Do I need to turn on 'Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes' in Mail?
thanks,
kman
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Interestingly, I can get the messages if I ssh in and use pine. It just seems to be Mail that is having difficulties. 
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Join Date: May 2005
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From your descriptin, the only thing I could think of that would cause the mails to not appear is if your Palm isn't properly checking the email. Maybe its marking the emails as already read or somethign on the server so your portable and desktop think they already have the messages?
Sorry couldn't really help.
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Hmmm...that's an interesting idea. I was thinking that maybe the IMAP server can only accept one connection at a time, but I would think that would cause a conflict btwn my two computers as well.
In trying to figure this out I have been rummaging deeper into IMAP and have some questions. How does the folder structure work for IMAP? For instance, if I ssh into my mail account and ls, I get the following:
@ INBOX.Drafts INBOX.Sent imapmail mail
imapmail contains:
Deleted Messages Drafts Junk Sent Messages
and mail contains:
saved-messages sent-mail
Why does there appear to be three places where mail is kept (root folder, imapmail, mail)?
If I turn on the Activity Viewer in Mail, and synchronize my mailbox, it seems to show the imapmail folder.
kman
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Well, now I am really confused. I noticed in Mail that there was a setting called "IMAP Path Prefix" and this was set to imapmail. I didn't set anything like this on my Palm, so I just deleted imapmail from the dialog in the Mail preferences to see what would happen. Now Mail is syncing EVERY folder in the root folder, including hidden files. For example:
.addressbook
.addressbook.lu
.cshrc
.history
.login
.mailboxlist
.mlbxlsttmp
.pine-debug1
.pinerc
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imapmail
INBOX.Drafts
INBOX.Sent
mail
I don't really understand IMAP, so I don't have a clue what is going on but this doesn't seem like it is right. Perhaps I should try to find a similar preference on my Palm and change it to imapmail like it was in Mail.
Can someone explain to me how this whole IMAP thing works? I tried googling for 'IMAP folders' and it just brings up some Exchange stuff.
kman
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