I am aware of the difference between Gmail's labels vs. Outlook's folders, but I would expect that Gmail does what is necessary to make the folders appear correct over the IMAP connection to Outlook. For example, if I drag a message from Outlook's All Mail folder to Trash, I see that message disappear from the Inbox folder after a short delay. Hence, the trashing of messages is registering on Gmail. It's just that the contents seem completely disconnected from what I see using webmail.

Why IMAP Folder is Not Properly Syncing?

Meanwhile, the "connecting" or "Checking for mail..." just stays on the bottom status bar of the mail app. I deleted the Apple Mail FixTechGuide Outlook repair tutorial app from the phone, reinstalled from the App Store. So only wait when some "smarties" from apple IT solve problem in app ... Apple programmers use no CD/CI - simple sometimes update by "sales-manager requests", and without any critical-bug-checks ... Full cleanup of ALL accounts is not a solution(and re-add even helps not).

Chosen Solution

Suspect some Apple Dev's have been lazy with some code disable faulty add-ins in outlook in IOS18's mail.app and its causing the issue. I was a little hesitant but went ahead and let it completely remove all the synced items from the account off of my iPhone. After a minute, it was removed so just went and re-added it and BOOM. Decided to just try completely removing my Gmail account, the one that wasn’t syncing with the Mail App after the iOS 18 update.

IMAP folder sync issue in the new Outlook (moved emails not syncing to webmail)

Microsoft Outlook is terrible in IMAP. Hence most people only use MAPI with it. If you are forced to use IMAP, I would recommend switching to an alternative E-Mail client like Thunderbird Thunderbird — Free Your Inbox.

• These are the common reasons why the IMAP folder is not syncing.
• It's just that the contents seem completely disconnected from what I see using webmail.
• I have half dozen mail accounts a few microsoft a gamil and some other ones and there is no difference they are all acting the same.
• I use both webmail and Outlook desktop client to access my Gmail.
• And because of the size, this is making the mail simply stop working after one day of normal use, forcing the users to end outlook process to make the mail sync again properly...
• So, properly follow the above steps and backup your data from IMAP folders.
• So it must be something in IMAP protocol handling on the old server that makes the iOS Mail app go out of sync or crash the syncing mechanism on the iOS device.

My accounts in Mail app stopped to sync post update

It's not until I click on that folder I will then see the 10 and 3 and two second later it will sync and new ones will populate. The issue is; just looking at my email accounts and the numbers shown next to the folders I cant Outlook OST vs PST repair tell if there is new mail or not until I click on them. I have all desktop alerts turned off I prefer it this way I don't need all of that. I just want to be able to look and see new message. Even if I have an account with zero message I need to click to see the new ones there are no numbers appear.

Get email updates

Wonder if the vpn is causing an issue. Perhaps something in TB needs to be tweaked. I have no firewall monitors running during the day that would interfere just the vpn. I have several email accounts / IMAP set-up. So looking at my tree of email accounts one inbox might have 10 mail total and 3 unread form earlier.