Spami and IMAP Special Folders

[The Merg]

I was able to get Spamihilator set up and working with my IMAP email client (eM Client). It works for me, but I have one major issue. In eM Client, you can specify what the IMAP special folders are or have eM Client detect them for you (Sent, Drafts, Junk, Trash). Whenever I try to use Spamihilator, the mail client cannot seem to detect these folders. Thus, whenever I try to delete something or sent it to the Junk folder, I get an error that the folder cannot be created on the server.

Any thoughts on how to get this to work? I really, really, really need an anti-spam filter and Spamihilator seems like my best option if I can get it to work.

Thanks,
Merg

[Chactory]

Hello Merg!

Thank you for your question and for your friendly note.

Will it work, wenn you activate (check) the setting marked with a yellow arrow in the following image?

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Kind regards,
Chactory

[The Merg]

Hi Chactory!

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, it still does not work. While, Spamihilator is doing it's job, eM Client is not seeing the special IMAP folders when I connect through Spamihilator. I've included some screen shots of my setup.

This is the error I get when deleting an email:

Error When Deleting Email

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This is the folder listing for an account with the correct special folders:

This is the correct folder listing with Special Folders

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This is the folder listing for my account after Spamihilator is activated:

The Merg Folder List

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You can see that there is an extra Trash folder and the Junk folder is not renamed to Junk E-mail as it is not seeing that as a special folder.

More to follow...

Regards,
The Merg

[The Merg]

Hi Chactory!

Here are my settings in Spamihilator:

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Here is my setup in eM Client:

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Using any other setting in the Port/Security Policy section of the eM Client setup makes it so that I can't connect at all. I've tried multiple combinations of Port 143/993 and SSL settings.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
The Merg

[The Merg]

I also noticed that when emails do come through to my inbox, I seem to only be getting the header. When I click on the email, it says that the body cannot be downloaded as I am not connected to the server and that it will download the next time I connect.

- Merg

[Chactory]

Hello Merg!

Will it work, wenn you activate (check) the setting marked with a yellow arrow in the following image?

Unfortunately, it still does not work. While Spamihilator is doing it's job, eM Client is not seeing the special IMAP folders when I connect through Spamihilator.

Here are my settings in Spamihilator: Check all folders for spam (not only inbox)
Here is my setup in eM Client: IMAP: port 993, don’t use secure connection
Credentials: User name: mailserver&mailadress&port993
Automatically detect special folder names

Sorry, but I have no experience with eM Client until now. But I have a thought about the possible problematic spot in your settings:

You have erroneously set the IMAP port in your mail-client as 993, which is the secure-settings port. But you should set the mail-reception in your mail-client on normal, not secure. So this means, the port should be made out to 143. Within the user-name field, you don’t need to repeat the port number.

Noteably, in the eM Client you can also choose if you want to detect special folder names automatically. Maybe this setting should always be concordant in eM Client and Spamihilator, but I don’t really know.

Kind regards,
Chactory

[The Merg]

Hello Merg!

Will it work, wenn you activate (check) the setting marked with a yellow arrow in the following image?

Unfortunately, it still does not work. While Spamihilator is doing it's job, eM Client is not seeing the special IMAP folders when I connect through Spamihilator.

Here are my settings in Spamihilator: Check all folders for spam (not only inbox)
Here is my setup in eM Client: IMAP: port 993, don’t use secure connection
Credentials: User name: mailserver&mailadress&port993
Automatically detect special folder names

Sorry, but I have no experience with eM Client until now. But I have a thought about the possible problematic spot in your settings:

You have erroneously set the IMAP port in your mail-client as 993, which is the secure-settings port. But you should set the mail-reception in your mail-client on normal, not secure. So this means, the port should be made out to 143. Within the user-name field, you don’t need to repeat the port number.

Noteably, in the eM Client you can also choose if you want to detect special folder names automatically. Maybe this setting should always be concordant in eM Client and Spamihilator, but I don’t really know.

Kind regards,
Chactory

Okay. I tried your suggestion of fixing the IMAP port and still had no luck. You mention about the option of detecting special folder names in Spamihilator, but I don't see that option anywhere. Where do I find that option? In eM Client, I tried it with that option turned on and turned off to no avail. Were you actually able to get Spamihilator to work with eM Client and IMAP?

Thanks,
Merg

[Chactory]

You mention about the option of detecting special folder names in Spamihilator, but I don't see that option anywhere. Where do I find that option?

Please note both yello marks in the screen shot:

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[Skamandros]

I have the same problem and have unfortunately not been able to solve it yet.

[Chactory]

Hi, and thank you for your question.
Is it with IMAP and em client, too?

[Skamandros]

Hi, and thank you for your question.
Is it with IMAP and em client, too?

Yes, it is with IMAP and eM Client too. But I think I have been able to narrow down or probably solve the problem: It seems that the mail server doesn't support other folders than the Inbox on the root level. Rather they have to be nested below the inbox directory. eM Client is however unable to detect this automatically. It seems to work when I disable automatic detection of special folder names in eM Client and set all settings manually like this:

Sent: Inbox.Sent
Drafts: Inbox.Drafts
Trash: Inbox.Trash
Junk: Inbox.Spam

So, this actually doesn't seem to have anything to do with Spamihilator.

[Chactory]

It seems that the mail server doesn't support other folders than the Inbox on the root level. Rather they have to be nested below the inbox directory. eM Client is however unable to detect this automatically. It seems to work when I disable automatic detection of special folder names in eM Client and set all settings manually like this