Topic: IMAP sub-folders gone...!!!

[Daniel]

I cannont see or subscribe to any of my mail folders under my 'received mail' folder.

This is where I store all of my mail, and up until today it has been working fine.  I can't see the folders in IMAP using OE, Outlook, or the web interface.  Up until today I could see them in all three.

I CAN see that the folders are still on the machine though...I manually went and checked and they are still there.  

How can I get them to come back up in my IMAP lists?

Thank you,

Daniel

[trevor]

Daniel wrote:
>
> I cannont see or subscribe to any of my mail folders under my
> 'received mail' folder.
>
> This is where I store all of my mail, and up until today it
> has been working fine.  I can't see the folders in IMAP using
> OE, Outlook, or the web interface.  Up until today I could
> see them in all three.
>
> I CAN see that the folders are still on the machine
> though...I manually went and checked and they are still there.
>
> How can I get them to come back up in my IMAP lists?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Daniel

Have you applied the patch for te Billion second bug as per the Home page (http://www.e-smith.org/article.php3&mode=&order=0)?

[Daniel]

Yes, I have.  That was keeping me from seeing messages, but now I can't even see my folders.

I applied the patch and everything worked fine up until today.  The only thing I did different was connect to my machine using Outlook Express instead of Outlook.  I have tried restarting my server, connecting once again with Outlook, and everything...but my folders won't show up under IMAP when I look for them.  They won't show up in IMP either via the web interface.

Any ideas?

Daniel

[trevor]

Can't really help you Daniel.

I have just looked and realised that I can't see my other folders under Outlook Express either. If I look at the IMAP Folders dialog box it shows them under Mail, which cannot be shown. I guess I'm going to have to do some investigation myself.

Trevor B

[Lars]

I had the same problem twice, once before and once after installing the update. In my case, creating a new subfolder from IMP on the same level as the ones that were lost made Outlook "rediscover" the old ones and the messages in them.

Regards
Lars

[trevor]

I have since found a Howto on modifying the default imp folder directories via Darrelll May @ http://myezserver.com/docs/mitel/imp-folders-howto.html

This solved all of my problems (ie. Outlook looks in the $HOME directory). The only other trick is to copy all of the mail under /Mail across to the new directories if needed.

Trevor B