Multiple IMAP accounts + automatic retrieval

Hello,
I have a 6790 (surge)... I was getting automatic email w/o any problems. But then I added another acount, and bang, it just stoped checking email.
Now I have to go into the inbox, and tell it to get the emails... very annoying... I want my automatic retrieval back!
Has anyone encountered this issue?
Thanks,
Alfred

Solved:
For incoming mail, I had switched the connection type to: default... if this is set, it won't work. You need to set it to an actual connection... in my case, I choose "Rogers Internet" and it not works, for both accounts.
Cheers

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Hi,
I find it really hard to use multiple IMAP accounts with Mail.app. The way it displays IMAP accounts is really ugly and very confusing. At best you have one Inbox which displays all the Inboxes on your accounts. Then you have separate drafts, sent, trash treelike view for your accounts "special" mailboxes and then again some-kind-of-tree-view of your IMAP account - which by the way doesn't always even display! It depends if you have checked save trash/sent/junk/etc. messages to server or something which really doesn't have any logic in it. Also it doesn't display all the folders like Inbox (which is combined mailbox at the top which I explained). Then you can drag mailbox from your IMAP account to the "panel" which I think only copies and is not shortcut.
Could you please do something to this instead of adding some ugly templates for sending your holiday pictures to your mom. I think that Mail.app should be developed to more "professional" usage, rather than develope features that teaches people to use their mailclient as a personal spamming tool for horrible HTML-mails.
ps. I'd also like to turn off that stupid embedded-attachemts. Attachments are attachments and not a part of the email content thanks.
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you can see a screenshot of my Mail.app at work. I use more mailboxes at home and it's way more ugly. There should also be somekind of "don't display" -options as it displays some horrible Exchange-folders also.
http://blues.irc-galleria.net/~koivula/uglymailapp.png
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Not every IMAP server requires that you use that command -- if not needed, then the options for that command will be gray when you select an individual Sent mailbox from the Sidebar. Are you saying there is no black triangle beside the Sent icon, even though you have sent a message from the account?
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Let me clarify what I said across all the responses in this topic. If you are operating a PC with say Outlook Express or Windows Mail, and a Mac with Mail, and furthermore if both are able to download a message from a POP server, and on both computers it is marked as Unread, then reading the message on one of the computers will not cause it to then be marked as Read on the other, operating in POP.
But if the server makes the assumption that the first computer to download a message from it means that it is also then Read, then of course taking away one of the computers will alter things. This is what I said in:
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Mail.app in leopard turns on an advanced "push" mail feature automatically, called IDLE. This can cause strange problems when you use multiple IMAP clients to access you IMAP server.
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Hger wrote:
Hi everybody
I've searched a lot but didn't find an answer yet. Maybe someone can give me a hint.
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Thanks for reading - any help, advice or direction you can offer is very much appreciated!
Here is my situation: I use a single IMAP account with several email addresses. If it's important to know, they are all set up as aliases, so I can receive mail in one single account at all of the addresses and can send email from any of the addresses through the same SMTP account.
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I am seeking help in figuring out how to make iOS 6 Mail behave the way iOS 5 Mail did.
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I think this is a bug, and I've reported it as such. More reports usually equals faster service: http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
For now, I've come up with the following work-around:
1. Leave your multi-account as-is set up on your iPhone, but remove your preferred default e-mail address from the list
2. Set up a new e-mail account with IMAP access (i.e. Gmail or whatever)
3. Create a new IMAP e-mail account on your iPhone/iPad with the details of this new account for the IMAP (receive) settings, but with your original e-mail account's SMTP (send) settings. Also, set the "Email" field in the account setup to be your preferred default e-mail address.
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All of your received mail will come in through your original multi-account inbox, and your new account's inbox will likely stay empty.
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