When creating the account, I had briefly seen my messages in my Google Apps account's inbox, but then the rest of the account folders were displaying the messages, I couldn't see the messages anymore neither in the account's inbox folder nor in the All accounts' combined inbox...
I had found several instructions how to setup the Gmail account and also others complaining about this issue, but nothing to solve it. Of course, start with the following instructions to setup Apple Mail 4, they are the same for the version 5. Nevertheless, if you cannot see the messages in the inbox, despite showing in your gmail account through your favorite browser, check this:
- Check in Apple Mail whether you have sub-folders below the inbox (you will have a small little triangle on the left of the inbox icon).
- If you have those sub-folders, go to gmail directly and check whether you have label's names which start with inbox/something.
- If that's the case, in many cases, they have been created out of previous migration from another client e.g. Outlook migrated to Gmail... they are considered as sub-folders in IMAP and it seems that Apple Mail is lost and cannot retrieve the inbox content in the such case.
- So from Gmail, select all related messages tagged with this label and move them to another folder.
- Once done, get back to Apple Mail, and select the menu Mailbox - Rebuild
- Your inbox should start displaying your messages and same for the combined inboxes
- Enjoy!
9 commentaires:
You are my hero - had this problem with a colleague's iMac. Click / delete and now he has his inbox.
Thanks
Hey good advice. I just completed an old Exchange to Gmail migration and a couple of my users had nested inbox subfolders. In my case, the Apple mail clients would show thing briefly or until navigating off the folder selected at the time of sync and then all the messages just disappeared. I searched and found several suggested methods, but this was the most straightforward and it worked perfectly.
Hey good advice. I just completed an old Exchange to Gmail migration and a couple of my users had nested inbox subfolders. In my case, the Apple mail clients would show thing briefly or until navigating off the folder selected at the time of sync and then all the messages just disappeared. I searched and found several suggested methods, but this was the most straightforward and it worked perfectly.
Incredibly helpful - this worked perfectly for me!
Thank you! In the settings, you can also deselect 'Show in IMAP' for the troublesome folder and this has the same effect.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post this incredibly helpful set of instructions. You saved me probably hours of deleting plists and creating test user accounts and saving the world. Warm regards!
Thank you so much for this incredibly helpful solution! You no doubt saved me hours of deleting plists and creating test user accounts. Warmest regards!
Thank you. Just moved from exchange and it was only the Mac users that created subfolders on exchange that had the issue. This worked. Never would'a thunk it.
Brilliant! - you are a genius. Thanks a million
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