Even after deleting the IMAP account on my iPad and recreating it, the Mailbox in question is not showing all the mails I can see in the same mailbox on my iMac or in Gmail via the web. It still only shows through February, just like before.
I wonder what the problem can be. doug On Sunday, March 17, 2013 8:24:44 PM UTC+9, Zack Tennant wrote: > > The first question is about MacMail, cause it's a function of the program, > not the system, so I don't know your answer. > > The second is a little bit as well. IMAP clients often will only > synchronize a limited amount of mail at a time when you change a large > amount. Perhaps you didn't leave the MacMail connected long enough for it > to start round two of the synchronization. Leave that computer on, and > connected for a few hours. It should try again, and I would imagine it > would get more of the messages then. You can check by looking at the > online version of the mailbox to see what messages are there. The phone's > IMAP may be delayed in downloading them too, due to a large number of > messages to sync. > > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Doug Lerner <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> I created a new Mailbox in one account in Mail on my iMac yesterday. To >> it, I dragged the contents of the inbox from another account. Both are >> Gmail accounts. All the email shows up fine on my iMac, includes emails >> from March. >> >> One question is: I was surprised the drag seemed to move the mails >> rather than copy them, since they are separate accounts. When does dragging >> from one account copy and when does it move (i.e. remove the emails from >> the original mailbox)? >> >> >> But the main issue is that on my iPhone and iPad I don't see the most >> recent messages in that Mailbox. I only see emails through February 8th. >> The view on both the iPhone and iPad are the same. In both cases only mail >> through February 8 is visible. On the iMac all the mails that were moved >> over are there though. Since it's IMAP I assumed all would sync. Any idea >> why the most recent emails showing on my iMac's IMAP mailbox are not >> showing on my iPhone or iPad? >> >> Mac is latest Mountain Lion. Both iPhone 5 and iPad 2 are latest iOS >> versions. >> >> Thanks, >> >> doug >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
