Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Confused about Mail mailboxes (local and remote) Date: 8 Mar 2017 22:34:27 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net Aqd0wakpoJUB85T6X5neUQKF6co6r/jkXSRV10nn5beq9LroTt Cancel-Lock: sha1:tH6Sw1WzzLfr3EwYiBLQEakc/bs= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:37783 comp.sys.mac.system:102086 On 2017-03-08, Patty Winter wrote: > > In article , > Jolly Roger wrote: >>On 2017-03-08, Patty Winter wrote: >>> >>> A new question: does Mail only allow one level of subfolders? >> >>Hmm... You can have as many nested mailboxes as you want. I don't see >>the behavior you describe. If I highlight a mailbox and execute the New >>Mailbox command, it shows the entire hierarchy. I just created a 4-level >>hierarchy as a test without issue. > > Well, that's weird. Were you creating them on the server or on your Mac? I always create them right there in Mail. I don't see much point in going someplace else to do what can be done right in the app. > The following screenshots were made just now on my iMac (El Cap), but > I'm seeing exactly the same behavior on my MacBook (Sierra). I created > a new folder called Level1: > > http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/AppleMail/iMac-OnMyMac.png Was Level1 created by Mail or some other means? Does the same thing happen when you try creating it the other way? > When I choose New Mailbox, putting the new mailbox within Level1 isn't > an option. I even quit and restarted Mail to make sure that everything > was indexed okay. > > http://www.wintertime.com/Personal/AppleMail/iMac-NewMailbox.png > Note also that if I select one of the existing On My Mac folders that > already have subfolders, I'm not offered the option of creating a new > subfolder. The only reason those subfolders exist now is because I > imported them. > > Any idea whether there's some setting I can change so that I can create > nested folders with the New Mailbox command? I think you may need to ask your IMAP provider for help. I suspect their IMAP setup is configured strangely. I have to wonder what IMAP server software they are running. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR