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Opened Nov 30, 2025 by Jean Bancroft@jean994532473
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IMAP emails not showing up on their own Thunderbird Support Forum

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Run TB in safe mode (hold Shift when you launch TB) and see if it makes any difference. Note also that when you click Get Messages, only the currently selected account is checked; click the drop-down to check a specific account or Get All New Messages (Shift+F5). The setting isn't present for folders that are automatically checked, such as Inbox. See the attached picture for the Properties window for a user-created folder. If these methods do not work, then contact the support team of your email provider. So, here are the solutions you solve the problem of the IMAP folder not syncing.

Why IMAP Folder is Not Properly Syncing?

While these solutions work, there is are chance that it will happen again. To avoid that, you have to take some precautionary steps. Subscribing to a folder makes it appear in the Folder Pane, but one might not always want recreate Outlook profile step By step a folder to be synced automatically if it is mainly an archive folder or one that seldom receives new mail. This limits the amount of network traffic and improves performance for syncing important folders. You should look at your Outlook desktop client settings to review the default synchronization schedule and tweak anything you can to get it to poll Google's IMAP servers more frequently. I access the IMAP servers from 3 different machines, and they all see the changes from each other.

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Furthermore, when calendar invites are accepted using the Outlook client, they disappear from All Mail and go into the Trash folder, but when using WebMail, they remain in the Inbox. I inbox repair tool alternative have seen this disparity for years across different Outlook client versions and Windows versions. I also posted on the Gmail subreddit about a year ago. After instalation ios 18 all my accounts in mail app stopped to sync( including icloud mail). I can only recive mails but when I delete mails on macbook they are not deleted on iphone. If an IMAP Inbox isn't displaying new messages as they arrive at the server, but only when the Inbox is selected, there is something wrong with the setup.

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

If the server is down and you are experiencing issues, the problem IMAP folder is not syncing occurs. So, check the status of your IMAP server follow the steps below. These a general steps to check your IMAP settings in any email application. With the help of this, you can also ensure that the server settings are properly configured or not.

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.After that, it is also important to secure your IMAP folder to prevent this issue from happening in the future.I am using TB for just three weeks now and I have issues daily when sending mail with no attachments the outgoing mail server will time out.Make a note of the values and delete an overwrite them also check your passwords for both SMTP and IMAP.So only wait when some "smarties" from apple IT solve problem in app ...Perhaps something in TB needs to be tweaked.

My accounts in Mail app stopped to sync post update

Simply making a change in Outlook does not in and of itself mean that anything has changed in Gmail. For example, you can disconnect from the Internet and make changes. Outlook needs to explicitly reach out to Gmail and communicate FixTechGuide login issue guide the changes you've made. I would suggest that frequent changes to folder contents on multiple devices will make it go wrong. Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q&A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. This anomaly also occurs when using the hosting system (first type), using different names for inbound and outbound servers.

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