Am I the only person who has (or cares) about this problem with IMAP

Question

I have multiple mailboxes in my IMAP account and i have to go into each mailbox to see if there is new mail. Is there a way to just update all mailboxes on the iphone? is it an IMAP setting? Is this Apple's way of trying to get me to buy mobile me?

Answer 1

I have nearly 100 folders, in a nested hierarchy, in my imap account. If it had to check every one of them when checking mail, it would take a ridiculously long time, eat up battery, etc. So I hope they don't change it to automatically check for new mail in every folder.
If you must have your filters applied to incoming mail such that emails get sorted to various folders, here's a solution that might help you.
1. Create a new folder in your imap acount, called something like "foriphone".
2. Instead of just having the filter move the message, have it copy the message to the new foriphone folder first, then move it to its appropriate place.
So now all incoming mail will be found either in the inbox (if it's not going to be sorted to somewhere else), or in the folders where sorted mail winds up, AND ALSO a copy of all sorted mail will be found in the foriphone folder.
All you have to do when checking mail is look at your inbox, and look at the foriphone folder. Every once in a while delete everything in the foriphone folder, since they're only copies of all the sorted mail.
Just an idea.