Automatically checking for new mail in IMAP folders.

Here is my relatively simple issue with Mail.
I use an IMAP email provider called Fastmail and use their server-side rules to automatically direct incoming emails into separate IMAP subfolders.
My question is when Mail polls for new mail; it only seems to poll for new mail messages in the main Inbox but not in any of the sub folders. I then have to manually click on each of the other IMAP folders to see if they have received new mail messages.
I am recent convert from Windows and can confirm that I did not have this problem when using MS Outlook.
I was wondering if any one else has experienced a similar problem and more importantly come up with a solution!

I was wondering if any one else has experienced a
similar problem and more importantly come up with a
solution!
Yes, this is a problem I've had with Mail.app from day one. The closest thing that I have come across as a solution is a to write an AppleScript script to convince Mail.app to check all of my folders. However, this is far from an optimal solution for many obvious reasons. I can only hope that Apple will fix this in the future, but it's been a few years with no solution in sight yet.
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I primarily use IMAP to check mail, but I have some POP accounts set up in mail so that I can sometimes send mail from a different account. I uncheck the box on the advanced tab in Mail Preferences that says "Include when automatically checking for new mail." I have checked the box "Enable this account" which allows me to send the mails on a case-by-case basis.
The system works quite well when it stays in this mode. But sometimes the system forces the box to be checked on the POP accounts and it downloads mail that I don't want (this mail gets routed to the IMAP accounts anyway, so I wind up getting it twice).
I cannot figure out how to stop this from happening. I have made sure both machines have identical account setups. I have forced synced from one machine with the proper account setup to .Mac, then force synced from .Mac to the other machine to ensure they were equal. But it keeps happening anyway.....
Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

For the purposes you have these accounts, both deselect (as you have done) Include when checking for new mail, and take the account Offline. The latter does prevent sending with the account, but will stop the undesired downloads. I have found the need to do both of these things at least since Mail 2.x and Tiger, and possibly since Panther.
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Hotmail used to automatically check for new mail regularly. It no longer does that. I have to click on refresh to get new mail.

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Has anyone else had this problem.
As far as i'm aware my iPhone is set to only check for new mail manually, but on making a phonecall it automatically checks for new mail and pings up on my iPhone.
Push is off, Fetch new data is off, and advanced setting are all set as 'Manual'.
Any luddite mistakes i may be making ?
Thanks,
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Mine only seems to do that at 11:30PM.
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"Include when checking for new mail" option not working

Hi,
I have 2 email accounts set up on mail, but I only want 1 of them to pull down mail (the other will only be used for sending). For the account I don't want to get mail I deselect the box "include when checking for new mail".
However, Mail still pulls down messages from that account. When I put in the correct server settings for the incoming, it pulls all of my mail (in this case gmail), and when I put in bad settings (as a way of avoiding getting the mail) I get an annoying error message.
Does anyone know of a way to make that function of Mail work?

Hi feuerstein.
How have you set up the Gmail account in Mail (POP, IMAP), and under which circumstances does Mail check for new mail on that account? More info, please.
BTW, Mail doesn’t automatically check when launched every account if Include when automatically checking for new mail has been turned OFF. That happens with IMAP accounts only (and only if they’re “online”), not with POP accounts, but it isn’t clear at all whether that’s what you’re talking about...

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When I start the mail app, it will check for new messages. But can the mail app be set to automatically check for new mail at system startup? I typically do not "re open apps when logging back in".
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Leave Mail running and set it to check every minute. AFAIK, there's no way to check otherwise.
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How do I get Apple Mail to NOT automatically check for new messages?

Under General, I have it set to Manually, under each Gmail account (2) I have UNchecked the "include when automatically checking for new messages" under "Advanced", but it still checks automatically. Are there other settings that effect this behavior? I want it to ONLY check manually.

It seems to be impossible to stop the automatic push - I found another email client that permits me to access gmail via pop3, and that permits several things that Apple Mail is deficient in (as far as I'm concerned) - permits delete of email on Gmail without having it deleted on my laptop, and does not permit autpmatic push. I need access sto ALL my email under MY organization structure on my laptop, even when I do not have internet access, and Apple mail does not permit me to manage things my way (neither does gmail).

Email program not automatically checking for new email

I just figured out why I'm not getting new mail notification in the Droid email program with my Yahoo email. It seems that the email program does not automatically check for new email. I have to manually open the app and then new emails are downloaded. I have the email settings set up as "data push" checked and "fetch schedule" is at 15 minutes. Is there something else I should be doing?

this may help you...
The way you have it set up should work fine. The stock android email app (for other than gmail) does not push as soon as you get an email, it has to actually "check" your email for you and you set how often it does that. There is afairly new yahoo app in the market (go to market and search for yahoo) that supposedly pushes to your phone when you get an email. I haven't used it, but if you need your email right when you get it, it might be worth a shot.
this was found on the page before yours. anyway i had the droid in january and it had the email deletion bug. so after i lost emails, i traded to the storm 2. it sounds like the droid x is better in that area so i'm waiting for mine to be delivreed.
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when i did i called vzw and they didnt know what was going on, but when they sent me an email i scrolled to the bottom of the list then when i scrolled up it would be gone. or gone the next day etc. so, i logged into gmail and we tried again. THEN IN REAL TIME WHILE LOOKING AT GMAIL INBOX ON LAPTOP and the droid, vzw sent another email, i scrolled to the bottom of the laptop gmail inbox and scrolled back up and it too was gone..not in trash/junk either then a second later it disappeared from the droid.
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Gmail continuously checking for new mail!

this is a very perplexing problem and i have searched forums for how to fix it but as i don't quite know what to call the problem, i haven't found any solutions yet!
i just got a new iMac and proceeded to set up my two gmail accounts with mac mail. one works perfectly fine, the other, for some reason unbeknown to me seeing as both were set up in the exact same way, the second gmail account is stuck continuously checking for new mail with the loading circle next to it.
i have tried deleting the account and adding it again several times, as well as restarting my computer and mail. i have tried taking the account offline and then connecting again but nothing has worked so far.
the settings are EXACTLY the same as the first gmail account that works fine. both are set to IMAP and as i didnt get the option to manually set up an account when i added them, they were both set up automatically by the mac mail app.
it might be helpful to note that i have the same two accounts set up on my macbook with mail 3.6 and they both work fine, so it is not a problem with my gmail account. (however on the macbook they are set up as POP not IMAP.. but i dont see an option to change that in mail 4.2)
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Apple Mail 4.0 and Snow Leopard seem to have multiple issues, rather long threads that follow (see links), but some users with multiple Gmail accounts have tried different solutions: best of luck.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=15f2852996dedf1f&hl=en
Also:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=776735
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+Possible Solution Found+
+Ok, I think I may have figured something out here....+
+I use IMAP as stated earlier.+
+I started from scratch with my gmail accounts in mail 4.0.+
+I hit Mailbox > Take all accounts offline.+
+Then created my 2 gmail accounts, following gmail's support page I unchecked all the options on the Mailbox Behaviors tab.+
+I used [email protected] for the username, not just the first part of my email, i.e. [email protected] This is also suggested in the gmail help guide, but mail doesn't set it up this way.+
+I forced my SMTP port to 587 in mail's setting instead of just having it use "standard ports 25, 465, 587"+
+I created both accounts, set those options, and hit take all mailboxes online. Mail seems to be downloading my messages from gmail smoothly so far for both accounts at the same time.+

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Ok, I want to be able to turn on my mac, and whenever a new mail arrives it play a sound or pop up etc..
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Mail not checking for new mail

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Email not checking for new mail

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hi there
it's .mac
we did try removing the .plist file, and it made no differnce
i am getting increasingly frustrated by the mail app, it's never been a particularlty good example of MAC software ( not very stable ), but now as well as unexplainable lulls where all you can do is watch spinning clock faces ( despite having a fast broadband connection ) , i'm also having to deal with sent emails re-appearing as drafts, even though they have been already been sent
i feel like i don't have the time to keep trying to find out what is going on, as i'm very busy right now, although any help is always appreciated
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Alan,
Refresh my memory: what type(s) of account are you
using -- POP, IMAP or .mac?
Since I believe your setting up a new User Account,
and Mail in it worked, did you ever remove the
com.apple.mail.plist, and cause Mail to need to be
setup again? To do this, quit Mail, and in the
Finder open Home/Library and locate the Mail folder.
Control-click over the Mail folder, and choose
Duplicate -- then drag the resulting copy to the
Desktop for temporary backup. Next, open
Home/Library/Preferences and find the
com.apple.mail.plist file and drag it to the
desktop.
Relaunch Mail, which will open as though new, and
when prompted to import anything DECLINE.
Instead, re-enter your account info, and Mail will
re-discover the account for this account, and all
should be well.
Sorry that I have not had time to go back over every
one of your prior posts.
Ernie

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