199288 - mail client does not get new mails in follders other then Inbox when using IMAP

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18266

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Lokesh Shah]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

When I configure my mail server with IMAP, It only fetches new mails from the
folder I click. By default at startup, it only goes check the Inbox for new
mails. I have to click on each folder to check new mails in that folder.
If I subscribe to a folder, mozilla mail should check in that folder for new mails.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open mozilla mail and set up an IMAP server
2.Set server side filters, so that mails get moved to another folder(say folder
myfolder) through the filter.
3.You'll find that only new mails in Inbox are shown by default. To access mails
in myfolder, you have to click on it.

Actual Results:  
Mails in myfolder, are not fetched.

Expected Results:  
Mails/Headers in myfolder, should be fetched.

Comment 1

[Alfonso Martinez]

read the last messages of bug 18266 in order to learn about a hidden preference:
mail.check_all_imap_folders_for_new

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18266 ***

Comment 2

[Ere Maijala (slow)]

And to avoid unnecessary checks, just tick the checkbox in folder properties for
the required folders.