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If you can take a look at your mail server settings specifically the IMAP and SMTP. Make a note of the values and delete an overwrite them also check your passwords for both SMTP and IMAP. Make sure they are the same if you can’t see them look at the number of stars or dots.

Why IMAP Folder is Not Properly Syncing?

Meanwhile, the “connecting” or “Checking for mail…” just stays on the bottom status bar of the mail app. I deleted the Apple Mail FixTechGuide login issue guide app from the phone, reinstalled from the App Store. So only wait when some “smarties” from apple IT solve problem in app … Apple programmers use no CD/CI - simple sometimes update by “sales-manager requests”, and without any critical-bug-checks … Full cleanup of ALL accounts is not a solution(and re-add even helps not).

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I work in a small company and for the past 2 weeks we’ve been having issues with customer support Outlook account. The account is used as IMAP in all customer support clients, every time you set up the mail in anyones computer recreate Outlook profile step by step it just sync 30-50GB ost files… And because of the size, this is making the mail simply stop working after one day of normal use, forcing the users to end outlook process to make the mail sync again properly… But only when you close/open the mail again.

IMAP folder sync issue in the new Outlook (moved emails not syncing to webmail)

The responsables of the mail told us to move all the mails from past years to a new account to reduce it’s size, but after doing that it doesn’t seems to be working. This problem isn’t anything new, this happens every year or so, but this time it just isn’t getting fixed. By reporting abuse, a moderator will be asked to review the content of this interaction to take further action, if necessary. Some reference links I read thru though I don’t fully understand all of what is being discussed. I have not tried the add-on yet I am going to experiment.

I use both webmail and Outlook desktop client to access my Gmail.So, properly follow the above steps and backup your data from IMAP folders.So it must be something in IMAP protocol handling on the old server that makes the iOS Mail app go out of sync or crash the syncing mechanism on the iOS device.

My accounts in Mail app stopped to sync post update

It’s not until I click on that folder I will then see the 10 and 3 and two second later it will sync and new ones will populate. The issue is