[MlMt] Weird behavior creating and seeing mailboxes

[Randall Gellens]

On 22 Jan 2018, at 6:38, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 22 Jan 2018, at 4:01, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>> I'm using EIMS as my IMAP server.
>
> Based on the homepage it looks a bit like it's been abandoned: 
> http://www.eudora.co.nz

There is no future work, so at some point I will switch to Dovecot, but 
for now it works well, and supports nice filtering options for spam.  
Unfortunately, it doesn’t support Sieve filtering to file messages in 
different mailboxes.

>
> Also, seems like it doesn't support SSL. Be careful with that if you 
> are not only running the server locally.

I tunnel all connections over SSH.  I also have stunnel set up, which I 
use for iOS connections.

>
>> I created several new IMAP mailboxes at the top level.  Each shows as 
>> "Untitled-x" where "x" is a digit that increases for each one.  I can 
>> edit the name, but it doesn't stick, it still shows as "Untitled-x" 
>> in the list.  Creating a rule to move messages into one, when 
>> initially picking the mailbox it shows as "Untitled-x" but the first 
>> time I save and re-edit the rule, the mailbox name shows.  However, 
>> after quitting and relaunching MailMate, the mailboxes are back to 
>> "Untitled-x" in the list and in the rules.  Using Eudora, I can 
>> refresh the mailbox list and the "Untitled-x" ones do not show at 
>> all.  They still show in MailMate.  If I create new mailboxes using 
>> Eudora, they don't show in MailMate after a synchronize account, but 
>> they do show after quitting and relaunching MailMate.
>
> When a new mailbox is created then MailMate often first creates it 
> with its default name and then shortly after renames it. It sounds 
> like the renaming part fails.
>
> Try this:
>
> * Open the Activity Viewer (⌥⌘0). This enables logging.
> * Create a new mailbox and rename it.
> * Wait for the spinners to stop for the account/mailbox.
> * Use “Help ▸ Send Server Logs”.
>
> Then I can see if something unexpected happens.

I meant to add that I never saw the CREATE or rename actions in the log. 
  I’ll send the log to Benny off-list.