'our IMAP server appears to be temporarily out of service' - help !!

When logging in I get this error message on my e-mail:
'your IMAP server appears to be temporarily out of service'
Any assistance please? Much appreciated.....

Call your ISP or whoever hosts your mail server and ask them if something is going on...

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"Your IMAP server appears to be temporarily out of service"

I didn't change anything and I get this message, on my IPhone, on Mac Mail on the web, and on Mail on Tiger. Anything I can do about this? Tell me I shouldn't be freaking out.
Thanks.

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

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.
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The server error encountered was: your IMAP server appears to be temporaril

The server error encountered was: your IMAP server appears to be temporarily out of service
on one mac account but not the other why?

k finally my account is receiving mail. But it was out of service for over 15 hours. And on only one of my .mac email accounts don't know how or why. Yet I even deleted my account from my mail and re-entered it but that didn't help, only time did. So strange and discerning for a paid mail account service. Great when it works. But it might be nice to have an auto forward feature for when the accounts go down so that emails may still be sent and received at one of my free email providers that has not ever had any issues. Good luck

Mail.app crashing our IMAP Server

Hi,
since upgrading my MacBook Pro from Tiger to Leopard, Mail.app is constantly crashing the IMAP process of our mail server (Ipswitch iMail).
-POP access to this server works fine,
-IMAP access to other servers (GMail, MobileMe) also works fine.
-Recreating the IMAP accounts under my user account doesn't help.
-When I setup the same IMAP accounts under a different user account on the same machine, the problem is gone, so it must be related to something in ~/Library.
-Other users that upgraded their machines from Tiger to Leopard don't have this problem.
I configured our firewall to log IMAP access to our mail server. There I can see, that my machine is flooding the server with connections on the IMAP port, obviously crashing the process on the mail server.
I looked into com.apple.mail.plist using Property List Editor, but couldn't find any obvious entries. I'm getting out of ideas. I've no problem in recreating all accounts, but I really don't want to loose the E-Mails and keeping the rules would also be a big plus...
Thanks for your help,
Timo

Hi Timo,
I'm afraid you won't like the answer. I found that Leopard's Mail, as far as IMAP was concerned, was worse than Tiger's Mail but that Apple's Mail of any Mac OS X vintage was a real productivity black hole whenever I connected to IMAP.
I've recently been using Postbox for IMAP and though there's a few things visually not as nice I'm at least not wasting hours a day/week waiting for the beachball of death to stop playing games with me.
The catalyst for me was coming back from holidays and literally wasting 2.5 hours trying to read basic emails with Mail.app. I've reported all of this to Apple via radar for a few years now and they close the issues as 'known issue'. Sorry. I feel your pain!

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Since I upgraded to Leopard the other week I'm having a problem with Mail, the messages I send are not stored on our IMAP server.
The error that shows up in system.log is:
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This is the least informative error I've ever seen
The IMAP server has no problem storing other users' sent items, it also works perfectly on the two other macs we have here which aren't running Leopard.
I tried googling the error but that yielded 0 results, anyone here able to shed some light on the problem/error?
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Same problem here, connecting to a Groupwise (not latest) server. Whenever Mail.app 3 tries to upload/save a new messsage to the server, it would not save and completely lose the message!
I found slightly more information by turning off the "Save to server" option for Sent and Drafts, created a new message that I saved as draft, and then tried to manually move items to the Drafts or Sent folder on the IMAP server.
The error I received was: The message <message> could not be moved to the mailbox <mailbox>-<account>. The IMAP command "APPEND" (to <mailbox>) failed with server error: APPEND NotJunk.
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What type of mail account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)? If POP, what are your Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings?
You may be able to get rid of those messages in Mail doing Edit > Cut (⌘X) (for best results do it with only one or a few messages at a time), but you may need to remove them from the server first. Does this account allow web access?
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Folders on the IMAP server do not appear or appear in wrong location - those cannot be modified in Thunderbird because "they do not exist on server".

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
/A2014
/B2014
/C2014
I tried to move the folders A2014, B2014 and C2014 under the sub-folder LastYear, and created new A, B and C folders for 2015, so that it would be something like:
Archive
/LastYear
/A2014
/B2014
/C2014
/A2015
/B2015
/C2015
On the webmail interface, everything looks fine: the old A, B and C folders where moved into the Archives/LastYear folder, and the new A, B and C folders appear under Archives. However, on Thunderbird things are a bit more... strange.
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.
Case 2: One folder does not appear at all - anymore.
Folder B2015 does not appear anywhere - despite being visible on the webmail interface. It does not appear in the list of folders to synchronize. No .msf file appear. Nothing happens if I try creating it again.
Note that it briefly existed after I created it, but stopped appearing a few hours later.
Case 3: One folder appears in the wrong location and cannot be accessed.
Folder C2014 appears in the old location (Archives) and not were it should be (and is on the webmail interface), that is Archives/LastYear. I cannot perform any operation on it in Thunderbird, I systematically get the following error message:
"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:
Archive
/LastYear
/A2014
/B2014
/A2015
/C2015
/C2014
I am totally flabbergasted, I have no idea of where the problem is. I tried various fixes found on forums (such as playing around with the .msf files), but no luck so far. Any idea?
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,
Agnes

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Sent messages do not appear in sent folder - IMAP server

In my mac mail program, I have a .mac account and a gmail account, both of which work fine on all accounts. I also use another email account which is on an IMAP server. If I send an email from the webmail site, the sent message appears in my sent folder both at the webmail site AND in the folder on my mac email client. If I send an email using the mac email client, the message arrives to the destination, but no sent copy appears either in the sent folder on the mac client or at the webmail site. Please help!!
powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)
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Hi David,
Where in the Sidebar to the Mail window, does the
Sent folder appear, if one does, for the .mac
account?
Ernie
Ernie,
The sent folder (little airplane icon) for the .mac folder automatically appeared under my email accounts (in fact, both sent accounts - for my gmail and .mac - appeared as subfolders of the sent folder) when I set those accounts up. Those both work fine, though. It's the IMAP account that isn't working.

IMAP server times out, Why?

For 6 days now I have been having a problem acesssing my sites and email accounts. Finally the hosting company has found that it is the number of email accounts (49) trying to access the IMAP mail server at the same time?
I have disable automatic "check for new messages at start-up" and put the "Check for new messages" to nothing.
When I go the an email address and click get messages, I get "Connect to server [email protected] timed out
Trying to send and I get
"Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server mail.1234.com timed out. Try again or contact your network administrator.
My hosting company states that it is because I am trying to open too many email accounts at the same time, and then my ISP blacklists my ip address. Only had the problem since last Friday.
Is it my ISP or hosting company, or me?
Help really appreciate to pin-point this problem.
Drachsi

What email server names... you must be joking they are not something I would consider anything other than a public record. Every DNS record for each site lists the mail exchanger. Email does not work if you don't. Concerned people will know your involved in some way with those 50 sites, maybe
I doubt you can stagger the opening of 50 accounts. Other than throttle your internet connection to a very low speed. IF they are imap accounts (the default) then about the only way to stop them trying to synchronize is to go into offline mode.
If they are POP accounts you could set them all up with their fetch messages setting all turned off, but then you would need to click fetch messages 50 times.
Seriously I think the issue is with your provider. They know you have a business case to open 50 email accounts on their server. They needs to get over their internal spam settings and deliver. Then when they stop flagging your IP address for spam your ISP will stop blacklisting you.
Your only real other alternative is run a mail server (Mail server software) on a local machine, have that mail server collect mail from the 50 other accounts on a schedule and connect Thunderbird to the local mail server.

...Not alone with problems on "Mail" app server connection, iMap!!!! I believe Apple is strengthening their server farm. Has been out for over a week; they were wise to have the iCloud also in the cloud.

Not alone with problems on "Mail" app server connection, iMap!!!! I believe Apple is strengthening their server farm. Has been out for over a week; they were wise to have the iCloud also in the cloud. Be patient!

Have you considered the possibility that the third party fan software might itself be implicated in the issue, theosib (or perhaps something else introduced at about that time?).
My inclination in a situation like this would be to back up your drive to an external, wipe the drive, and do a clean installation. At the very least I'd try an archive and install.
Do you have plenty of free space on the drive? Once you get things down below the last 10 to 20% things can get hairy at times, and may not be fixed as a result of simply freeing up some room, as free space fragmentation is likely to have set in.
As far as RAM goes, either "Rember" - http://www.kelleycomputing.net:16080/rember/ or, better still, but less user friendly, "memtest" - http://www.memtestosx.org/ does a much better job of checking your RAM than the AHT. Still takes a while to run for a thorough test, but much quicker than the approach you are planning on using.
You might also want to use "Activity Monitor" to check for any applications with progressive "memory leaks" or that are acting as CPU hogs, given your symptoms
Cheers
Rod

Imap server times out

Ever since I updated to Mavericks on one of my imap email server accounts I occasionally get this popup:
I notice when I open Mail an exclamation mark next to the name of my imap email account and upon clicking on it I get above popup. Which is in Dutch but translated roughly to:
[name email account] cannot be opend.
Time out of the connection with server 'imap.emailaccount.com' through port 143.
The exclamation mark generally goes away when I click the 'receive email' button or restart Mail.
I deleted the account and set it up again to reset it. All the values are correct as checked with my ISP.
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This is my Mail Server log:
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
Nov 14 09:21:22 imap(pid 51947 user courtney.currie): Info: Connection closed in=0 out=432
Nov 14 09:22:29 imap-login: Info: Disconnected: Inactivity during authentication (disconnected while authenticating, waited 163 secs): user=<>, method=CRAM-MD5, rip=::1, lip=::1, TLS
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
Nov 14 09:22:48 imap-login: Info: Disconnected (no auth attempts in 5 secs): user=<>, rip=::1, lip=::1, TLS: Disconnected
Nov 14 09:22:49 imap: Info: Server shutting down. in=1896 out=278534
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Strange folders appearing on IMAP server

Hi
Over the past couple of months I have had folders with names like 'nfs000000000c8133a7000000b5' appearing on the top level of my IMAP server. They have appeared once or so per week and I now have 15 - all with names starting 'nfs000000000.....'
They cannot be deleted - i get the error message "This mailbox "nfs000000000c8133a7000000b5" could not be deleted. The IMAP command "DELETE" failed with server error: Mailbox does not exist, or must be subscribed to ..."
- which I am guessing suggests the problem is on the Mail application side rather than server side.
any ideas how to solve this??
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