IMAP server appears to be temporarily out of service = No Mail?

This may be the wrong forum for this, I know. However, the .mac forum is the "land of the misfit repair requests" as far as Apple is concerned. Perhaps posting this here will get some attention.
This issue does not impact all .mac mail accounts but if it impacts yours, you already know its not working.
Can someone in Cupertino take a look?
Thanks

First check to see if your mailbox is online. If it is try synchronizing it.
cornelius

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Hi all,
A few days ago, I moved 3 sub-folders within my Archive folder. I was doing those modifications using Thunderbird.
My Archive folder used to contain the following sub-folders:
Archive
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Case 1: For some folders, things are as they should be.
Folders A2014 and B2014 were correctly moved into Archives/LastYear.
Folders A2015 and C2015 were correctly created in Archives.
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Note that it briefly existed after I created it, but stopped appearing a few hours later.
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"The current operation on 'C2014' did not succeed. The mail server for account <AccountName> responded: "Archives/C2014" doesn't exist."
(Which is correct because according to the server the folder C2014 is in Archives/LastYear).
The C2014.msf file is also wrongly located, but moving it to the correct location did not change anything: the next time Thunderbird was started, the wrongly located .msf file was re-created.
Thunderbird does not show the emails contained in this folder - when I try loading them I get the previous error message.
Using the same style than before, here is how my Archives folder look right now:
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/LastYear
/A2014
/B2014
/A2015
/C2015
/C2014
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A few more details:
- I use an IMAP server.
- This is a professional address, and I have little control on it.
- I use Thunderbird with this account on two different computer, the problem is identical on both computers.
- I tried removing/re-installing the account from Thunderbird, it did not change anything.
I would be eternally grateful if any of you could come up with a solution!
Many many thanks,
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Nov 14 09:21:22 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (client didn't finish SASL auth, waited 90 secs): user=<>, method=PLAIN, rip=192.168.10.1, lip=192.168.10.201, TLS
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Nov 14 09:22:42 imap-login: Info: ID sent: name=Mac OS X Mail, version=7.0 (1822), os=Mac OS X, os-version=10.9 (13A603), vendor=Apple Inc.: user=<>, rip=192.168.10.136, lip=192.168.10.201, TLS
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