IMAP folder syncing

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I have a client that recently acquired another business. The acquired business was using Consolidate Communications for their email, accessing it through their webmail. 5 employees total.

We would like to download this email so it can be archived and the accounts deactivated. When setting up one of these emails in Outlook, only the standard folders are synced (Inbox, Sent Items, etc.). The accounts have dozens of other folders you can see and access when in webmail. Normally, you would just go into the IMAP folders dialog and add the missing folders to the subscribed list, but in this case, no additional folders show up in that dialog.

The only thing I knew to try was setting the root folder field in the Outlook setup. The default in Outlook is that this field is blank, so I changed it to INBOX, but sadly, that didn't change things at all. No additional folders show up to add to the subscribed list when you click on the "Query" button.

We have an open ticket with Consoldated, but unsurprisingly, they haven't been helpful so far. We're waiting on a resonse from the escalation team.

Is there anything I've missed? I suppose we could drag all of that email into the inbox when logged into webmail, but what a mess that would create. I'm calling this an action of last resort.
 
Go to the webmail, look at the folders. Are they stored under the root? Or are they stored under the inbox?

If you can get those folders moved via webmail to be subfolders of Inbox, you should have a much easier time.
 
How are the folders arranged in webmail? Every IMAP I've worked with, when synced to a new computer using an existing account, always populates any created folder and emails. And are you sure their account is IMAP and not POP3? Are there any items in the sent folder? I'm guessing you've already looked at CC's Outlook setup instructions.
 
I would check in the webmail's settings for anything relevant. There may be something that makes those folders visible, or not, to IMAP.

If no luck there, if you create an IMAP folder in Outlook, does it show up in the webmail? If so, you could recreate all the folders, then move/copy the emails to them in webmail, which should get them to Outlook.
 
Gmail has this in settings, and perhaps this provider has something similar:
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I just don't know where you'd look. But even all of the labels (which show up in IMAP as IMAP folders) I've created have the associated "Show in IMAP" checkbox, where the default is checked.

Unless this server somehow allowed local non-IMAP folders to be created and used, I don't know what to advise. More information is needed.
 
Gmail has this in settings, and perhaps this provider has something similar:
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I just don't know where you'd look. But even all of the labels (which show up in IMAP as IMAP folders) I've created have the associated "Show in IMAP" checkbox, where the default is checked.

Unless this server somehow allowed local non-IMAP folders to be created and used, I don't know what to advise. More information is needed.
Your comment jogged my memory. There's actually several clients for the front end, EU facing, for webmail. I've used roundcube before as well as PHP and AJAX. But when I checked they don't indicate what they use. https://www.consolidated.com/suppor...il-user-guides/logging-in-accessing-web-email
 
I'd check in the folder view of Outlook first, see if they are in subs of other folders or worse, all stored in a calendar or contacts and those would not show in the normal view (seen this before). This might be a good case to run MFCMAPI, at least you can look in there before doing anything. I'd def make a couple backups and maybe run a migration software to 365 first to test it. This would def be in one of my holy crap be extra careful jobs. I would do 2 backups before doing any repair work. Measure twice, cut once. Test on the least important mailbox too. Just my tips here.
 
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