{"id":2608,"date":"2025-05-29T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2025-05-29T17:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T00:07:30","slug":"imap-in-outlook-10000-folder-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2025\/05\/imap-in-outlook-10000-folder-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"IMAP in Outlook:  10,000 Folder Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Problem<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Having configured Outlook to download all of my Yahoo Mail messages over IMAP, I noticed that most of my older messages were missing. My Inbox showed 10,000 messages, which is a suspiciously round number. Sending a test email from another account resulted in the message count momentarily dropping to 9,999, then back up to 10,000.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Solution<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Changing the IMAP server from imap.mail.yahoo.com to <strong>export.imap.mail.yahoo.com<\/strong> seems to have resolved the problem. I now have all 15-something thousand messages synchronized.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem Having configured Outlook to download all of my Yahoo Mail messages over IMAP, I noticed that most of my older messages were missing. My Inbox showed 10,000 messages, which is a suspiciously round number. Sending a test email from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2025\/05\/imap-in-outlook-10000-folder-limit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-windows-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}