IMAP folder: Resetting all mails

[Jens Müller]

Hi,

I have an IMAP email folder. Every now and then (1-2 weeks), when I go into
the folder, Windows Mail forgets all Mails in the folder, and immediately
re-fetches the list. Then I need to re-download all the messages, either by
clicking on them or by synchronizing the folder. As the number of messages
is quite high, this takes a lot of time and is an annoyance every time it
happens.

Is this a known bug?

Thanks!

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Is this a known bug?

Is it an (e-mail address removed) account?

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

I'm not familiar with that particular problem, but have heard that
Windows Mail has some bugs in its IMAP implementation.
One solution is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Renato Rrapi]

has been some changes lately from email i see they are using the term mail

thats good

renato



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I'm not familiar with that particular problem, but have heard that
Windows Mail has some bugs in its IMAP implementation.
One solution is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail:

http://download.live.com/wlmail

 

[Jens Müller]

Sorry for replying so late to both of you:

Is it an (e-mail address removed) account?
No.

I'm not familiar with that particular problem, but have heard that Windows
Mail has some bugs in its IMAP implementation.
One solution is to upgrade to Windows Live Mail:

Are fixes planned?

Tried it a while ago but Windows Live Mail does not appeal to me at all. A
lot of unneccesary features (emoticons, ...) leading to a not useful UI.
Important features like access to email source via Ctrl+F3, change of HTML
source, etc not avaialble.

For me, the change from Outlook Express to Windows Mail was already a step
backward. The contacts list could not be showed in WL itself. The file-based
mail database makes everything lots slower (except fulltext search perhaps,
as content is indexed).

Regards.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

The design for Windows Mail was frozen in June 2006, and no
fixes or improvements will be forthcoming. About two years ago
Microsoft declared that Windows Live Mail was the replacement
for Windows Mail. As for specific Windows Live Mail features
you don't like, most can simply be ignored, and it does have the
Ctrl+F3 feature to see the source code. The only WM feature
it does not have is HTML source code editing.