{"id":8465,"date":"2006-10-03T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/mail-app-imap-folder-display-bug\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:55","slug":"mail-app-imap-folder-display-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/03\/mail-app-imap-folder-display-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail.app IMAP Folder Display Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone want to see a bug in Mail.app v2.1 (752\/752.2)? Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/videos\/mail_imap_single_subfolder_bug.mp4\">mail_imap_single_subfolder_bug.mp4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In short, I have two folders under INBOX (in this case .Logs and .Other) which aren&#8217;t defined as special folders (.Sent, .Drafts, .Junk, and .Trash are being used as special folders in Mail.app). If I delete one of them, in this case .Other, suddenly .Logs is no longer visible.<\/p>\n<p>In short, if there is one folder besides the &#8216;special&#8217; ones off of INBOX, it won&#8217;t be shown. And yes, I&#8217;ve confirmed that the folder is subscribed. Pointing SquirrelMail or Thunderbird at the account shows all folders as expected.<\/p>\n<p>This is with Courier-IMAP 4.1.1 running on FreeBSD 6.1.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, this has been reported to Apple as Problem ID 4764544.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone want to see a bug in Mail.app v2.1 (752\/752.2)? Here: mail_imap_single_subfolder_bug.mp4 In short, I have two folders under INBOX (in this case .Logs and .Other) which aren&#8217;t defined as special folders (.Sent, .Drafts, .Junk, and .Trash are being used as special folders in Mail.app). If I delete one of them, in this case .Other,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13164,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/13164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}