Email Trigger (IMAP) node does seem to work (emails not marked as read)

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Describe the problem/error/question

Appreciate help please. I am on step one of my first workflow since passing the level 2 course.

I want to trigger a workflow when an email is received in my yahoo mail inbox. I selected test step on the node then forwarded an email to this inbox. I waited for 5 minutes. The email was not marked as read. What am I doing wrong?

What is the error message (if any)?

No error but email is not marked as read

Please share your workflow

Share the output returned by the last node

Information on your n8n setup

I am running n8n version: cloud version 1.62.5

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Hi @diggooddog

Thanks for reporting!

Just tested with a Gmail IMAP - no issues there. It could be related to the Yahoo server. Will need some further testing here.

Do you see anything in the Browser Dev Tools Logs when testing the node?

Can you try your setup with Gmail IMAP as well and see if it works for you then?

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Thanks @ria yes it works fine for Gmail. There is no error message in dev tools. An email that I send to yahoo (from Gmail) never gets set to “read”. I have set up a follow on node to update a Google doc but this doesn’t happen either.

I think it has access to the yahoo email - if I change the folder name in the node parameters to something that doesn’t exist then n8n displays an error “Folder does not exist or server encountered an error”.

How does this node identify new emails? Is it a time based criteria e.g. emails received in folder while node listening? Or looks for all unread emails? or other?

As an alternative: If there was a way to manually (or schedule) trigger an IMAP node to get messages in yahoo based on date/time period I would be happy with that but could not see an IMAP node for this unless I am mistaken?

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Hi @ria or anyone else appreciate any help on my reply above please. Thanks

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