Why is an IMAP Inbox Only Displaying 10,000 Items When There are Many More Emails on the Server?

Anonymous
2022-05-04T04:23:15+00:00

I have an IMAP email account that is hosted by AOL Mail, which I download into Outlook 365. The AOL Account has emails going as far back as 2015, and until recently all of those emails were visible (and searchable) through Outlook. About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that I could no longer search for emails going back farther than 6 months ago. Those emails are still on the AOL server; I can see them if I use AOL's webmail interface (which is pretty mediocre). But they are no longer downloading into my IMAP inbox. Indeed, at the bottom of the inbox it now says I have 10,000 items.

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That's the maximum. If I delete say 100 emails, another 100 emails will download from the AOL server but the downloading will stop when I hit 10,000. (When new emails download from the account, older emails are deleted so I'm just about always at 10,000 items). The full set of emails remains on the AOL server.
In my IMAP Account Settings for this email account, I have the "Keep Mail offline" setting pushed all the way to the right at "All".
[!\\ I can't find any setting in Outlook that limits the number of emails. Nor does there appear to be any setting in the AOL account that limits 3rd party IMAP mailboxes to only 10,000 items (at least not one that I can find). New emails are downloading and syncing with the AOL server, so my connection settings appear to be correct.
Is there some kind of Registry setting that is limiting the number of items that will load into this email inbox? I used to have access to all of the emails that were on the AOL server. Is there any way to get that back? One last note. I deleted the AOL account from Inbox, rebooted and then reinstalled the AOL account. It still only downloaded 10,000 items in the IMAP inbox. Also I'm using the most recent version of Outlook 365.
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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-12T16:11:24+00:00

    Changing the imap server restored access to all of my emails, but broke the Rules functionality set up in Outlook.

    "The message could not be moved because the destination folder could not be found."

    Default ProfileName: [Not Logged]

    ProfilePath: [Not Logged]

    Proxy Settings:

    {

    GlobalProxy =     {
    
        FTPPassive = 1;
    
    };
    
    en0 =     {
    
        FTPPassive = 1;
    
    };
    

    }

    Number of email messages: 128648

    Number of folders: 23

    Number of reminders: 0

    Number of Contacts: 90

    Number of Calendar Items: 3

    Number of email accounts: 1

    Number of LDAP accounts: 0

    ----------------------------- I M A P ------------------------------

    Default Account: TRUE

    isAccountMigratedToHx: TRUE

    Account Name: [Not Logged]

    Account Full Name: [Not Logged]

    [Not Logged]@att.net

    Email Server: [Not Logged]

    Account Uses SSL: TRUE

    SMTP Server: [Not Logged]

    Authentication ID: [Not Logged]

    Account Supports REST: FALSE

    Account Setup For REST: FALSE

    Folders in Account: 9

    Calendars in Account: 0

    Reminders in Account: 0

    Calendar Items in Account: 3

    ----------------------------- I M A P ------------------------------

    Default application for calendar items: TRUE

    Default application for contact items: TRUE

    Default application for message items: TRUE

    Default application for note items: TRUE

    Default application for task items: TRUE

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-13T03:31:39+00:00

    I use Thunderbird to access AOL, and experienced this problem, too.

    I just modified the IMAP server setting, appending "export." before the "imap.aol.com",

    and my "lost" emails re-appeared.

    Thanks for the research, work, etc., etc, to all participants.

    Paul

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-13T04:26:53+00:00

    I have always and continue to have problems with email locking up; sometimes refreshing (gmail android) and send/receive (out windows) works, other times I have to close the program. Sometimes I have to kick the one I read/deleted it in first, then the other.

    I've had days with no emails for many hours; I notice that, close/open, and suddenly hours of email come in.

    I think this is no different from that.

    I read (so marked not new) in each of the two platforms and after some restarts, they showed up in the other (email marked read, or deleted, as the case may be). And note I wouldn't think of using this "export." trick on the android. As is, it only gets about 1-3 months of email. I don't really work with long term email on the phone or tablet. But it is still using whatever it used before, and the PCs use the export prefix. So they work, just takes some time and/or restarting, but no worse that it's always been.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-13T04:48:56+00:00

    Do you write the rules using a scripting language, or using the outlook rules tool? If the latter, maybe enough changed that it isn't recognized. If you used the tool, maybe you need to reenter them?

    I have a rule triggering on the email from my daily backups, triggering on text to look for errors... with the exception of a phony error that sometimes happens. I just started a reboot of the NAS drive and then tried a backup. Naturally it failed.

    On both PCs when the email came in, it popped up telling me about it. So the rule worked in two outlook versions in two windows versions.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-07-20T14:51:47+00:00

    I have had the same issue, called Apple support, had a case number, but no resolution yet.

    Since it is a yahoo account, I have been working on the Yahoo web site that still displays all my past emails.

    Have tried rebuilding a couple of times in Outlook the inbox, but no success.

    One of the thing that I have not tried yet, but I saw some people in forums saying that it worked for AOL, is to delete the account, recreate it, but NOT as a specific AOL, or Yahoo options, as "another" account, but you might need some help when doing that from the AOL or yahoo desk, and I have not had the time to try, but was curious if anyone had, and if it worked.

    It is super annoying to only have 10,000 emails in Outlook, hopefully Apple can solve this one quickly

    Luc

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