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With "Read all folders" (readAllFolders) turned on, receiving mail from a Gmail account fails with folder cannot contain messages, and nothing is received. Gmail has a [Gmail] folder that holds [Gmail]/Spam, [Gmail]/Sent Mail and the other system folders but cannot hold messages itself, and receiving tries to open it as any other folder.
Steps to reproduce:
Add a Gmail account (imap.gmail.com, port 993, IMAPS, an app password) and turn on "Read all folders" for it.
Receive mail for the account.
Affects 6.3 and 7.0.
Reason
A Gmail mailbox cannot be received with "Read all folders" at all.
Fix
A folder that cannot hold messages is shown in the folder tree but not read, and its subfolders are read as usual.
changed the title [-]Fix receiving mail from all folders: emails of different folders overwrite each other, Gmail fails[/-][+]Skip mail folders that cannot hold messages[/+]on Oct 29, 2026
Activity
Skip mail folders that cannot hold messages (closes #1942)
[-]Fix receiving mail from all folders: emails of different folders overwrite each other, Gmail fails[/-][+]Skip mail folders that cannot hold messages[/+]