GMail, Windows Mail, IMAP Error
If you are using Gmail’s new IMAP feature with Windows Mail (and possibly other clients, although this doesn’t appear to be a problem in Outlook) you will probably encounter the following error message whenever your program attempts to send/receive mail:
Header download for the ‘[Gmail]’ folder did not complete. Could not select ‘[Gmail]’ on the IMAP server. You might try refreshing your folder list to synchronize with the IMAP server. Account: ‘imap.gmail.com’, Server: ‘imap.gmail.com’, Protocol: IMAP, Server Response: ‘Unknown Mailbox: [Gmail] (Failure)’, Port: 993, Secure(SSL): Yes, Error Number: 0×800CCCD2
This one, thankfully, has an easy fix. Right click on the GMail folder and select “Don’t Synchronize”. This does not affect your sending or receiving of mail or any of IMAP settings. That’s it! Error solved!
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