IPhone cannot download messages from IMAP account.

I have a weird problem with one of my IMAP mail accounts. Everything works fine in Mail on my Mac but on iPhone I cannot see any messages from that account. It's showing how much message I have, but cannot download any of them... I can see all IMAP folders, can send new messages, but I cannot see nothing Does anybody have same problem?

I have expeirenced a couple of problems in setting up my email accounts.
One thing that seems to work, when an email account freezes on my iphone, is to turn on teh iphone (hold and keep down the button at right hand top) and then slide to confirm on screen.
Than when you switch back on it frees up the email account and works fine.
Dont ask me why, but this was also advice from apple and also hotmail help.
Mark

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For Gmail, this is normal, there is nothing you can do about it -- just type Mail AND Gmail in the search box to see threads discussing how Gmail works.
As for the other accounts, this shouldn't happen. I wonder if what you're seeing is just that Mail is ignoring this setting for mail that was already on the server when you started using it. I've seen something like this happen when playing with that setting, e.g. changing it from "After one day" to "After one week". Mail would just ignore messages that fell in the timeframe where the two settings could interfere and I didn't notice it until some time later, when Mail "forgot" those messages had already been downloaded and, being faced with them again, dutifully downloaded them as if they were all new.
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On our iMac, Mail would stop retrieving messages from an IMAP account after a while, even though it's set to check every minute and "synchronize automatically" is enabled. Hitting the "get mail" button, doesn't make a difference. I know there were new messages, since they showed up on my own PB, which is connected to the same IMAP account. Once Mail is restarted on the iMac, a dozen new messages are coming in and everything's working fine for the next few hours. Reinstalling the account on the iMac didn't have any effect.
So my theory is:
I've set the iMac energy settings to "allow the hard drive to sleep when possible". I guess Mail isn't capable of spinning it up again and freezes to a certain degree, requiring a restart in order check for new emails.
I'm just testing this with the energy options disabled.

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i posted earlier regarding the Studio suite which I bought in 2011 .... it shows in my account but there is no download link. I have not been using for a long time but now I would like to download and install it ... kglad has been very helpful indeed but we could not solve it so he suggested I contact you and you might be able to help. Here are some notes from the original post.
kevinr51
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Dec 24, 2013
Is it possible still to download Studio 7
Dec 24, 2013 8:22 AM Tags: #7           #download           #studio
I bought Studio 7 in 2011. It is registered in my account but I have not used it and do not have a downloaded copy of the installation files. I know tha it is discontinueed, but is it still posslbe to download it from Adobe or elsewhere, i'd very much like to start using it now ?
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kglad
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Jul 21, 2002
1. kglad, Dec 24, 2013 8:55 AM   in reply to kevinr51 Report
you should be able to use links from your account if you login using the same id you used to register it, https://www.adobe.com/account.html
2. kevinr51, Dec 24, 2013 9:08 AM   in reply to kglad
Thanks for your quick reply, this is what I thought but there is no download link in the My Products section - maybe I am missing it but I cannot find download links anywhere else in my account ...
3. kglad, Dec 24, 2013 9:33 AM   in reply to kevinr51 Report
are you using the same id now as you used when you registered you product?
4. kevinr51, Dec 24, 2013 10:08 AM   in reply to kglad
I have gtwo accounts, one UK and one for Spain. This did cause some issues when i originally bought Photoshop and Lightroom but this was sorted out, so my Spanish account became the main account with my products in it. When i was checking earlier, all products were showing - photoshop, lightoom and Studio 7. All without download links but I have copies on file of photshop and Lightroom, but not Studio 7.
Since then I have tried deleting my cache (Chrome) and using a different browser (IE11) but the problem remains the same. I suspect it is something to do with the originalmix up in the UK and Spanish accounts when i bought the products but really not sure. I am not too worried about them being available permanently in my online account - i'd just like to have a copy of the Studio Suite i can download. I can use the activation code from my account as that is showing OK.
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However, I did purchase it from Adobe.
As I understand you from your previous posts on this issue (http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1364641), Studio 7 (which you're seeking to download) is Studio MX 2004. That was Macromedia software.
I'm not sure how you purchased this in 2011 since the software was long superseded by then. Studio MX 2004 was sold by Macromedia in 2004 - before their acquisition by Adobe.
Adobe has never sold Studio MX 2004.
Adobe does not offer any Macromedia software for download although they do provide new serial numbers for legacy Macromedia software since the activation servers were decommissioned. The new serial numbers allow you to continue to use your Macromedia software indefinitely.
http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/macromedia-legacy-activation-error.html

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