Mail keeps hiding IMAP folders

How do I get Mail to show all IMAP folders? I've created subfolders under "Inbox" and it keeps hiding them..argh!

Anyone? This is a huge design flaw.. I'd almost call it a bug. I have emails in a folder I created called "asdf" and Mail won't show that folder no matter what.

My 3 accounts are all IMAP and like your they show under the parent folder "Inbox".

I don't have any problem with them ever being hidden and the subfolders were created as I added each account. I have read that Mail.app doesn't handle IMAP all that well. Having said that, I haven't had any problems except with some drafts that remain in the drafts folder even though I have sent them off. Sometimes there are more than one copy of the same draft. This could be a general Mail.app bug and may have nothing to do with IMAP.

When you say:

I've created subfolders under "Inbox"

Click to expand...

Do you mean literally, or that as you added an account in Preferences -> Accounts, a folder for the account was automatically created under "Inbox"?

This is interesting ... can you take a screenshot of the IMAP accounts being "Hidden" and upload it here?

Yeah I'll try to post some screenshots today.

OK, a step by step visual walkthrough. (give it a minute, imageshack is slow sometimes)

Step 1: create a new mailbox.



Step 2: I'm naming it "My Test"



Step 3: As you can see, the mailbox does not show up at all. Even if I quit and restart Mail, nothing.



Step 4: I create a second mailbox, called "Mailbox 2"



Step 5: Oh check it out.. now an arrow shows up, I click it, and there are both mailboxes.



Step 6: I delete "My Test" mailbox..



Step 7: All folders disappear once again




EDIT: Aha. Solution found.

Go to the account prefs, click Advanced.. checkmark "Automatically synchronize changed mailboxes". And for me personally, I had to put "INBOX" as the IMAP path prefix.

Works great now!

Ignore all of that was misreading! Glad you got it sorted!

No prob

This article was what saved me:

http://superfluousbanter.org/archives/2007/04/setting-up-imap-in-apple-mail/