DBmail imap server and Mail

Since the last upgrade I have been having a lot of crashes. I moved a number of old mail to the server at about the same time. Hence I thought it was something I did.
I have heard from an ISP that there is rumor or maybe more than a rumor about a problem with DBmail and Mail.
Anyone having problems?
I was getting a crash almost within a minute of starting mail if the imap account was online. I reduce the frequency by moving around a lot of messages and by quickly taking the account offline when ever I have finished pulling down new mail. Even then I get multiple crashes a day when the account is online.
Suggestions?
PB 17" Mac OS X (10.4.5) Very large number of mail messages and folders

Update: Take a look at "Mail crash isolated - DBMail imap interaction"
The problem is now isolated. The bug was reported to the DBMail folks. Hopefully Apple will pick up on the problem in Mail and patch the code for a future release.

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try this - worked for me. read in another thread...
For those of you having email password issues, I'd suggest:
1) Close your mail client (i.e. Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc).
2) Launch "Applications" > "Utilities" > "Keychain Access.app"
3) Select "login" from the sidebar top left area, then select "Passwords" in lower left area
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IMAP, iPhone and Mail

I picked up an iPhone a month ago. and switched to IMAP for my mail reading. Mail has been working great for a few weeks, but recently my laptop is having sync issues with the mailbox. New messages are coming in on my iPhone with no problem. On the desktop, when i wake for the day and check mail I can see it reading the messages, but they do not appear. I have tried to re-sync, rebuild, take the box online/offline, etc. The only solution is to login to my web client, move the new messages to another box, and then move back to the Inbox. Once my laptop is open, any new messages come in fine, it just seems to be some issue with when I go to sleep.
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Very frustrating!

_*5 minutes later_:* I realize I need to be more clear. I see two copies of the messages when viewing them in a smart folder. However, when I view the GMail Inbox, I see only one copy. The only rule for the smart folder is From contains comics. Why would this lead to two copies? The preference for including messages in Trash is not selected. I'm out of guesses.

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I have a Mac Mini with Mac Os X Snow Leopard Server. I have a external mail and when I receive a invitation ever it adds to local calendar, but I want to add in server calendar. How to configure it for add invitation to my server calendar?
Another problem I have with calendar that's I can't send invitation to contacts I have added in CardDav Server, just I can send invitations to local contacts.
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this is a big pain in the ***, bug!
when you have more than one calendar account (lets say one local one CalDAV iCal starts doing silly things.
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Lion Server and mail push notifications stop after reboot

Hi, I have a Lion Server mail server setup with push notifications to iOS devices. Everything works fine until I reboot the server. At that point none of the iOS devices receive push notifications until I kill their Mail app; once I relaunch it, push notifications start working again to that device until the next reboot. Has anyone else seen this, and know how to solve it? Thanks.

You don't believe me but I just start to close the tons of opened in background apps on my iPhone and when I close all apps the mail push start working just great! Checked it several times!

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Hello,
is Messaging Server capable for use as a mailing list server like mailman to which one can send subscribe, unsubscribe and help messages? If yes, can one point me to the right documentation about that?
Thank you very much.
Greetings,
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Hello Ajith,
Look at this and try downloading "mailmanwrapper.pl "
http://ims.balius.com/downloads/
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dn: uid=list,ou=Mailman,ou=People,o=${mail_domain},o=isp
objectClass: mailRecipient
objectClass: top
objectClass: inetMailUser
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
mailUserStatus: active
mail: list@${mail_domain}
mailHost: ${mail_host}
uid: list
mailDeliveryOption: program
mailProgramDeliveryInfo: mailman-post
dn: uid=list-request,ou=Mailman,ou=People,o=${mail_domain},o=isp
objectClass: mailRecipient
objectClass: top
objectClass: inetMailUser
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mailUserStatus: active
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mailHost: ${mail_host}
uid: list-request
mailDeliveryOption: program
mailProgramDeliveryInfo: mailman-mailcmd
dn: uid=list-admin,ou=Mailman,ou=People,o=${mail_domain},o=isp
objectClass: mailRecipient
objectClass: top
objectClass: inetMailUser
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
mailUserStatus: active
mail: list-admin@${mail_domain}
mailHost: ${mail_host}
uid: list-admin
mailDeliveryOption: program
mailProgramDeliveryInfo: mailman-mailowner
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Greetings,
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Sync mailboxes between IMAP accounts and mail

Hi,
I would like to move messages of a similar nature to a particular folder on my mac and have them move to a folder of the same name on my IMAP account.
For example, I have a folder called "work" on each of my IMAP email accounts. When I move messages into this follder, through mail or on the web, I want them to automatically sync.
I also want the mail in the "work" folder in different email accounts to show up under the same "work" folder on my mac(s).
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Problem with Yahoo IMAP and Mail...

I'm having an issue with my Yahoo IMAP setup and mail on my desktop:
I have set up my yahoo email account with IMAP on both my iphone 4 and with mail on macbook pro. It has worked fine, all my folders are synced up on both devices and everything runs well except for one small problem. When I read an email on my Iphone, the mail program on my macbook pro never knows. Every day I come back to my computer, and all of my yahoo emails remain as "new" and "unread" even though I had checked all of them on my iphone. Its very weird because the opposite is not true - in other words - if I check a Yahoo email on my macbook pro, then my Iphone recognizes it and will show it is "read" as soon as I read it on macbook pro.
I also have an IMAP work email hosted by gator and a gmail account and I do not have this problem, its only on my yahoo account. I have tried the following settings:
Incoming server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Incoming server - apple.imap.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing server - smtp.apple.mail.yahoo.com
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Anybody else having this problem or have any suggestions on how to fix??

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mobile/comms/mail/imap-01.html
To set up IMAP on your mobile device please use these settings:
Incoming Server - imap.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing Server - smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Incoming Port - 993 (requires SSL)
Outgoing Port - 465 (requires SSL/TLS)
Username: full email address (for example, [email protected] or [email protected])
Password: the password you login to Yahoo! with.
If you are having trouble setting up IMAP on your mobile device we recommend reviewing your phones instruction manual or contacting your mobile provider for support.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
You can use the following information to configure IMAP with many mail clients. If you encounter difficulties, we suggest contacting your mail client's customer support department for further instructions -- we're unable to provide assistance with configuring mail clients not listed here.
Incoming Mail (IMAP) Server - requires SSL:     imap.gmail.com
Use SSL: Yes
Port: 993
Outgoing Mail (SMTP) Server - requires TLS:     smtp.gmail.com (use authentication)
Use Authentication: Yes
Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)
Port: 465 or 587
Account Name:     your full email address (including @gmail.com) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
Email Address:     your full Gmail email address ([email protected]) Google Apps users, please enter username@your_domain.com
Password:     your Gmail password
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Also, if you're having trouble sending mail but you've confirmed that encryption is active for SMTP in your mail client, try to configure your SMTP server on a different port: 465 or 587.

Can access mail on home IMAP server from work, but not at home

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Until recently, I could move my MacBook Pro between home and work and access my email without problems in either place. It appears that since the 10.8.2 update, I can no longer access my email from home, where I am on the same subnet as my IMAP server. When at home, Mail accesses external email servers (Gmail and my work account) without problems. For the accounts on my home IMAP server, the Mail Connection Doctor states that the IMAP server could not be contacted.
However, I can clearly ping it from my MacBook Pro, which means that it is reachable and that my internal DNS is working.
I just fired up my work VPN, and, sure enough, messages that Mail hadn't been able to collect are trondling into my Inbox. In other words, when making Mail access my mail server through the Internet there is no problem.
Even before the Mountain Lion update I found that I had to relaunch Mail when I returned home from work, or Mail couldn't connect to the mail server. It seemed like Mail cached the resolved IP address it had gotten at work, which is the external IP address of my home network, and failed to re-resolved the address of the IMAP server once I woke up the computer, after getting back home. Quitting Mail and relaunching it did resolve that, but it was annoying.
I have never worked with Little Snitch, but it might provide some answers as to what Mail is attempting to do, when it is failing to access the server. Do any of you agree or recognize this issue and have a solution?

It looks like a simple reboot fixed the problem.
Mac OS X is, by and large, so stable that I don't even consider rebooting as a troubleshooting step. There have been a number of application glitch that required a quit and re-launch to fix them, but that didn't do the trick with Mail. Very possibly reconfiguring everything from scratch had something to do with the fix, but in a way that required it to be combined with a reboot.

Mail stopped picking up new mail from IMAP server [MDaemon]

I've been using Mail to pick up my mail from a number of different mail accounts (MobileMe, Gmail and work mail). Everything has worked fine until a couple of weeks ago when mail stopped picking up new mail from my work mail account.
I have tried deleting the mail account and setting it up again - all that did was to lose the cached mail on my machine, although it picked up the folders from the imap server and it's looking in the folders for mail [I can see that from the Activity Window]. It also seems not to delete everything as, when I went to set it up again, the email address field was already defaulted to the one for the account I had previously deleted.
I then tried creating a new user on my laptop and setting up the work mail account under this user. It worked perfectly - it went off and got all of the mail from the server (OK by me) and started picking up the mail OK.
So I'm guessing that if I can really delete the mail fully from my main user, I could reintroduce it and all would be well. However, I've scanned the whole disk for my email address and deleted (after backing up) all files I found with the address in. Again, it still seemed to know about the account I removed.
Anyone any ideas?

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Problems with read/unread mail on IMAP server

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I'm having the strangest problem and I've yet to find a pattern or explanation for it. I retrieve all my mail from an IMAP server and store cached copies on my Mac. Sometimes after I've read a message, and Mail.app marks it as such, it will re-flag itself as unread after a number of minutes. Sometimes it's immediately, other times it's after several hours. It doesn't happen on all messages, just some, and seems to happen in at random in any of my IMAP folders. It's incredibly annoying. Has anyone else had this happen or do you know how to fix it? It doesn't seem to happen with other MUAs, just Mail.app. Thank you!

I brought this up with Apple and Mirapoint (the providers of our mail server infrastructure) a year and a half ago when I was running 10.3.4. The discussions ended up to a difference of opinion between the two companies concerning the IMAP spec. This has always been a issue with Mail.app ever since I can remember from back in the 10.0 days up until at least 10.4.4.
I will post the tail end of the discussion with the names removed to protect the innocent. I will admit that alot of this stuff is over my head. I also don't know how this applies to other mail servers. I don't think any other IMAP clients that I know of exhibit this read/unread state issue.
FROM APPLE:
Thanks for your patience on this escalation. A Mail.app engineer has reviewed the logs you sent in and determined that the Mirapoint server is returning the wrong response.
Specifically, in return to SELECT their server is returning:
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk Forwarded JunkRecorded)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk Forwarded JunkRecorded \*)]
* 11 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1057775569]
3 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
They are using the PERMANENTFLAGS response for session-based IMAP flags, which unfortunately does not abide by the IMAP spec. The engineer has agreed that Mail.app could likely do a better job handling session-based flags but concurrently Mirapoint needs to rev their software to return the appropriate response as per the IMAP spec.
MIRAPOINT'S RESPONSE:
I went through the spec (RFC 2060) and found the following...
IMAP server can allow a client to create permanent flags that can be stored:
Under Section 2.3.2. Flags Message Attribute
A keyword is defined by the server implementation. Keywords do not begin with "\". Servers MAY permit the client to define new keywords in the mailbox (see the description of the PERMANENTFLAGS response code for more information).
Also,
Under Section 6.3.1. SELECT Command
If the client can not change the permanent state of one or more of the flags listed in the FLAGS untagged response, the server SHOULD send a PERMANENTFLAGS response code in an OK untagged response, listing the flags that the client can change permanently.
Also,
Under Section 7.1 Server Responses - Status Responses....
PERMANENTFLAGS Followed by a parenthesized list of flags, indicates which of the known flags that the client can change permanently. Any flags that are in the FLAGS untagged response, but not the PERMANENTFLAGS list, can not be set permanently. If the client attempts to STORE a flag that is not in the PERMANENTFLAGS list, the server will either reject it with a NO reply or store the state for the remainder of the current session only. The PERMANENTFLAGS list can also include the special flag \*, which indicates that it is possible to create new keywords by attempting to store those flags in the mailbox.
Now, referring to the earlier IMAP session (over telnet ) that I had you do:
. select inbox
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk JunkRecorded Forwarded)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk JunkRecorded Forwarded \*)]
* 12 EXISTS
* 2 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 11]
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1056569562]
. OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
. fetch 1:* flags
* 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen NotJunk))
* 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen NotJunk))
* 4 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen Forwarded))
* 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 6 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 7 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 8 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 9 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 10 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 11 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))
* 12 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))
. OK Completed
As you can see above, "NotJunk", "Forwarded" are the PERMANENTFLAGS defined and stored by Mail.App client, not the session specific flags. According to the snippets that quoted above from the IMAP specs, I think Mirapoint is correct in its PERMANENTFLAGS response.

Did most recent Audio update to OSX and Mail.app went insane.

I switched to the Mac in... November? and have absolutely loved it. This has been my first catastrophic experience thus far and I'm used to Windows being a part time job to manage so I'm not complaining.
However, late last week OSX installed an audio update of some sort and when I rebooted mail.app had seemingly lost it's mind:
1. IMAP accounts constantly go offline and then back online at random time intervals. This problem I actually had occasionally before but now it's a constant annoyance.
2. Frequently getting "The message from "somebody" concerning "something" has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." error message for messages that have a. already been downloaded and b. who's accounts are showing as online. FYI, yes I do have mail.app set to download and keep a copy of the messages locally.
3. Some messages (I can't find a pattern but it's about 5% of the messages) download repeatedly and appear in the inbox as many as 51 times. The only solution to this seems to be to log into the IMAP account's webmail access and delete the "offending" message.
4. An account can be online and yet not show all the messages that are in the inbox. I know this because if I log into the webmail I can see them.
5. Seemingly randomly the rules are ignored. Typically I can select a message and then tell mail to apply rules and then it works but why didn't the rule happen on it's own as usual.
6. The general "Inbox" sometimes doesn't show new items in the individual account inboxes until I go and click on those individual account inboxes and then come back to the general inbox.
Info about my system/setup:
a. I have 4 IMAP accounts.
b. I store messages on the IMAP server.
c. The "fullest" IMAP account has roughly 500 MB in it but is set to have 2.4 GB capacity on the IMAP server. That account also has 48 personal folders on it, and has had them for a little over a month. After reading about smart folders, I intend to consolidate many of these into an "Archives" folder.
d. The other IMAP accounts are each set to have 1+ GB of available server storage but each have under 100 MB used.
e. I use SpamSieve for email (love it, by the way)
f. I have a demo of MailTags running (it's been since mid-June and I've only played around with tagging a few emails so far but I intend to use iGTD once I get Mail back under control)
What I've tried:
1. I read that it's better to do the consolidated updates than the incremental ones so three times now I've tried to download the consolidated OSC 10.4.10 update but it never fully downloads. I'm not sure what's the deal with that as I've downloaded 300-400MB files over my internet connection at other times without difficulty.
2. I read that you can delete the folders in mail.app and let it rebuild them from the IMAP folder... a. from what I read, I'm not clear on the procedure for doing this safely b. I have a lot of folders to deal with and c. the only places I've read about it is from people commenting in forums that it didn't help them.
So... any suggestions?

At least one of the problems you have appears to be some index corruption, and I have the feeling that MailTags has a bearing on it. I don’t think you’ll be able to completely solve the problems you have without uninstalling that first...
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Leave checked (enabled) only the port configuration needed to connect to Internet and Built-in Ethernet (in that order if not the same), uncheck (disable) the rest of network port configurations and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
Given the amount of mail you have on the server, I expect it to take a fair amount of time for Mail to fully re-create the index and bring all the mailboxes back online. Again, I strongly encourage you to uninstall MailTags before doing that.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

Messaging Server 6.3 proxy IMAP to UWash IMAP server

We have a Sun Java Messaging Server 6.3 set up and we'd like to migrate our users a few at a time from an older mail server running UWash IMAP (v2006g) to the new Sun Messaging server. I am told by a Sun Engineer that this is possible by setting the user's mailHost attribute to the old mail server, however I am unable to get certain parts of it to work.
Having the user's mailHost attribute set in LDAP to a host containing a Sun Java mailstore works just fine w/ mail clients such as Thunderbird/Outlook and the Web Mail client Communications Express. However, setting the mailHost to the old IMAP server (for example, imap.host.com) works fine w/ mail regular IMAP clients, but if they attempt to login with Comm. Express, we get the error in the log file /var/opt/sun/messaging/log/http on the MMP:
General Error: Failed to login on imap server on imap.host.com. Check local.service.proxy.admin and local.service.proxy.adminpass: AUTHENTICATE PLAIN invalid
Looking around on the 'net, it looks like this is because the AUTHENTICATE PLAIN is only used during IMAPS sessions. So I enabled SSL on the old IMAP server and made the IMAP Proxy also use SSL by setting the following values with configutil:
local.service.proxy.imapport = 993
local.service.proxy.imapssl = 1
I also made the appropriate changes in ImapProxyAService.conf in /opt/sun/messaging/config to enable SSL. Now when a user with their mailHost attribute pointing to the old mail server tries to log in, we get the message:
General Error: IMAP SSL connection to imap.host.com failed: I/O operation timed out
I've made sure that the old mail server has port 993 open in it's firewall so the Sun Messaging server can get to it. The old mail server has a certificate for its IMAP server signed by GeoTrust, not a self-signed cert. The Communications Express also uses SSL for logins. I'm still wondering if there is a setting I've missed, either w/ configutil, in ImapProxyAService.conf,
or otherwise.
Has anybody tried proxying a UWash IMAP(S) server from a Sun Java Messaging Server and got it to work?
Sorry if I've left out any details that is needed to further diagnose the problem, I will be happy to post any other configs or settings, just ask.
Thanks!

Hi,
Has anybody tried proxying a UWash IMAP(S) server
from a Sun Java Messaging Server and got it to work?Proxying IMAP(S) -> IMAP(S) and POP(S) -> POP(S) using the MMP software should be fine as you have already noted/tested. The web-client server (mshttpd) used by UWC/CE isn't going to inter-operate with a UWash IMAP server. The web-client uses custom IMAP extensions which weren't even available in MS6.2 (which is why customer have to upgrade their back-end store before they upgrade the front-end's).
Sorry if I've left out any details that is needed to
further diagnose the problem, I will be happy to post
any other configs or settings, just ask.What you are trying isn't going to work unfortunately -- until the user is migrated they won't be able to access the Sun web-based interface.
Regards,
Shane.

Infuriating IMAP problem in Mail - Help!

I have just starting hooking up Mail with our company's IMAP server. I need to do this since I use a desktop and a laptop, both of which need to have exactly the same e-mail on them, including flagged items, sent etc. It seems to work OK except for one thing - Whenever I send a mail, next time I check mail and it syncs with the server, the mail I just sent shows up in bold (unread) in the sent messages folder. I can see why it is doing this - It's because I store my sent messages on the server, along with my incoming mail, so when the sent message is synchronized it thinks it is "new" or unread. I need to sent messages stored on the server as if I don't then it negates the whole point of me using IMAP. Does anyone know a workaround or a way to stop this? If not it's back to POP3 for me and the joy of copying my entire mail folder to my laptop when I go away and back again when I return.......
Thanks

Thanks for the help. Here's what that folder contains:
Deleted.imapmbox
Drafts.imapmbox
INBOX.imapmbox
Sent Messages.imapmbox
I've messed with every possible setting on the IMAP account in Mail and also in the options section of our IMAP web interface but to no avail. I've also experimented with the "Use this folder for..." setting as-well, but it's just not doing anything.
The whole point of this was to ensure that when I go away (which I often do) I can just sync the MacBook Pro up with the IMAP server and avoid having to run my sync scripts I made to copy my mail folder etc. over from the desktop. Ironically, it only takes a double click to do that and I spent all of Sunday morning trying to get this stuff sorted then ended up going back to POP3....So much for technology.
There are quite a lot of Apple Mail/IMAP issues similar to this (although not all identical) around the web on forums (here too) and I have seen at least 1 person who had the same issue. I think Entourage handles it better but I'm not willing to use that due to the fact that it doesn't use Apple's address book.
The detail from the console output which someone else posted that had a similar problem seems to indicate some kind of incompatibility with the flags and status info that Mail and the IMAP server exchange. It also appears that different server software companies have different interpretations of the IMAP standard, which causes much finger pointing and gets nothing done. I should say that the issue is identical on the MBP as well as the G5 Desktop.
It looks like I will have to wait until 10.4.7 is released to see if it is fixed. Apple are supposed to be focussing heavily on some unresolved Mail problems in that release so maybe it will fix it, but I'm not holding my breath.

How do I set up Apple Mail with Yahoo (IMAP) so I can delete mail on my iphone but leave it on the server and iMac.

I am trying to maintain my inbox on my imac while not carrying around all my mail on my iphone. As of now, I only seem to be able to sync the inboxes. If I delete a mail on my iphone, it disappears on both the server and imac. I only seem to be able to make it move the mail to the deleted mail box and keep it there.

That's the way IMAP servers work. The messages really live on the server; the iPhone and the iMac just view them.

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