fetchmail, imap from FastMail, why is mai l in separate folder ?

On Mon, 17 Aug 2026, Chime Hart wrote:

> Well, Roger, while I think my issue is fetchmail related, maybe you will know? 
> For at least 2years while getting an imap receiving FastMail, mail in Alpine is 
> ending up in a separate fastmail folder instead of incoming folders as an 
> inbox. Here in Debian SID my fetchmail is in /usr/bin/fetchmail. If you have 
> any suggestions, please pass them along. Thanks so much in advance
> Chime

I suggest starting a new thread with a new subject line.

It would be helpful if you showed us your configuration file.

What is your Mail Transfer Agent ? Run this command and show us your result :

root@titan ~ ss -tlpn sport 25
State   Recv-Q  Send-Q Local Address:Port  Peer Address:Port  Process   
LISTEN  0       20         127.0.0.1:25         0.0.0.0:*  users:(("exim4",pid=1573,fd=5))  
LISTEN  0       20             [::1]:25            [::]:*  users:(("exim4",pid=1573,fd=6)) 

It might be useful to show us the output of systemctl status <pid>, (1573 in my 
case). 

Roger