Account folders in mail client?

is there not a way to show the folders from the mail account in mail client?

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to display/access those folders on my mail accounts to no avail, hence my asking here. I'm not computer illiterate or anything, this is just my first Mac. Anyhow, back to the issue... here is a cropped screenshot of what I'm seeing in Mail:
As you can see, there is no disclosure triangle beside the accounts. Only beside Inbox, Sent, and Trash. When I right-click (or Control Click) on a message and hover over "Move To" this is what is visible to me:
If I'm doing something wrong/missing something I would love to know, but as far as I can see and tell... I'm not.

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If I have an IMAP account configured in my Apple Mail client profile, and then I also add an Exchange 2010 Server account to that same profile, can I use the Apple Mail client to copy folders and messages from my IMAP account, into my mail store on the Exchange Server account?

Pop mail accounts must be set up to 'leave messages on the server'.
check this before using.
* Tools > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
or
* menu icon > Options > Account Settings > Server Settings for the mail account
select: 'leave messages on the server'
optional: select: 'for at most xx days' this will delete anything older than specified number of days select 'Until I delete them' when you delete an email it will be deleted off the server.
click on Ok to save settings.
Pop mail accounts only look at Inbox and download whatever has not been previously downloaded regardless of whether it has been read or not. They cannot access nor download from any other folder on the server.
If you wanted to download emails in other fodlers, you would have to move emails into the Inbox in order to download them and this may not be very practical in your situation.
What you can do is synchronize your IMAP folders to get a copy downloaded to your IMAP mail account.
Then go into 'offline' mode to stop any further synchronizing as synchronized folders do get updated.
MozBackup tool could now be used to backup the Profile as synchronising created mbox files which contain emails.
You can also do the following to get a copy outside of the IMAP mail account:
Create the same folders in 'Local Folders'.
Then right click on email and 'copy to' and select Local Folders and the folder you require.
Putting a copy in Local Folders means these emails are also on your computer and they are not influenced by anything you do in the IMAP folders.
You would need to backup emails in these folders.
See info:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/IMAP_backup
MozBackup:
* http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
ImportExporttool:
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Creating Folders in Mail Client

I've been using Apple's Mail client for 5 years now and have my Gmail, Mobileme, and work email set up. I have had no problem creating folders (mailboxes) within these accounts. I recently added another email address which was set up through godaddy.com. When I go to create a new folder (mailbox) I am not able to select that account in which to create the new folder. I can select from any of the other accounts or just create the folder on my mac (which I don't do for obvious mobility reasons). Little help?

you can only create mailboxes in IMAP accounts. if this account is POP then you can not add mailboxes to it. POP only downloads yoiur mail from the server and you can not put any messages back on the server with a POP account so a server side mailbox in a POP account is impossible to make.

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I have a new website with ipage and would like to configure my new domain imap email on my mac mail client. Neither Apple nor Ipage support have been able to resolve why the outgoing server will not send messages. All variations of settings have been tried. I think it may be an SSL issue, but whichever, it must be possible to set up such an account. Anyone? Please?

Shootist007,
I too loaded sparrow and it did seem to work fine with my (multiple) Gmail accounts and the folder/labels looked great (they do allow you to separate your inboxes/labels) with just a keystroke??---What I found was their HELP files were as MINIMAL as their program (fine for the more experienced I am sure)
I spent several hours!!! trying to figure out how to move the inbox messages to the (FOLDERS)??? I gave up!!
IF ANYONE KNOWS THE STEPS FOR DOING THIS I may well try the program again as it did seem to behave with Gmail/multiple accounts/personal domain quite well!
I will download thunderbird and give it a go in the morning
Thanks for the quick response!
Chaplain T

Used TB previously. Files backed up. Operating system reinstalled. Need to reinstall TB. How access old TB e-mail accounts, folders, e-mail?

My operating system was became defective. I backed up all previous files. Operating system has been reinstalled. I need to reinstall TB. How can I access all previous data (e-mail accounts, folders, and e-mail) when I reinstall TB?

You need your old profile:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb?esab=a&s=profile&r=1&as=s
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

Can not access my gmail account from Thunderbird mail client - account marked with padlock

I am moving from an telia.com to a gmail.com mail account using a thunderbird mail client. Has been working fine until last evening. When my client could not access gmail anymore. The problem is displayed with a padlock o n the mail account.

Yes OK padlock has been there before problem occurred - still I have the problem Thunderbird just keeps on working and is not able to access gmail server and I do not see any error indication

IMAP server with multiple mail account on multiple mail clients

Hello,
I have the following problem that I would like to share with the community in order to find a solution.
On my Mac OS X Maverick (OS X 10.9.3 (Build 13D65)) Server (Server 3.1.2 (Build 13S4517)) I configured dovecot (Ver. 2.2) as IMAP server.
I created 8 email accounts on the server and I started the email traffic on the system.
It works well and it sound good! But...
I started to configure different mail clients (i.e. OS Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook (different release, same behavior)) on different client machines (i.e. Mac OS X, Windows xxx, Lubuntu 14.04).
On each client I have to configure all 8 emails accounts previously created on the Server and...
Something strange start to appear...
1. On the dovecot error file a lot of messages appear like the following:
    Jul 02 16:56:55 imap(pid 15241 user <xxxxx>): Fatal: setuid(505(<xxxxx>) from userdb lookup) failed with euid=506(<yyyyy>): Operation not permitted (This binary should probably be called with process user set to 505(<xxxxx>) instead of 506(<yyyyy>))
   but also if it's not normal there are not problems and dovecot works fine...
2. Sometime on the Thunderbird and Outlook clients a message that says that some account has been disconnected appears...
   but also this problem appears a false because by moving on the different accounts configured I'm able to see the right emails present on the Server
3. On the OS Mail clients I see continuously error messages that say that some account has been disconnected...
   but also in this case the problem appears a false because by moving on the different accounts configured I'm able to see the right emails present on the Server (also if with some trouble more than the other email clients...)
Now, the question is: have you may be information about problems with this kind of configuration? Maybe am I trying to make something that at the moment is not possible to be made? Or, have I found a bug (or more than one) in the components that I'm using?
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Assuming you're on a NAT'd network, DNS services can cause all sorts of weird errors with the mail server, including spontaneous name changes.
To verify local DNS services, launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and issue the following harmless diagnostic message:
sudo changeip -checkhostname
You'll need to enter an administrative password for the sudo, might see a one-time informational message around the usage of sudo, then you'll see some host and network configuration information, and finally an indication that either no changes are required, or that there are local DNS or the network has configuration issues. Also, make sure you're not using .local or .arpa as the top-level domain within the DNS services.
Public DNS for the mail server can also cause communications issues, if that's not configured correctly — that won't cause the issue you're seeing in the logs here, but it will cause inbound mail to not reach your server, and outbound mail from your server to be dropped by the remote server. To verify your public DNS, launch Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities and issue the commands discussed in this thread or this thread and confirm that your internal and external MX record and your internal and external forward and reverse DNS settings are all correct.

How to Restore Secondary Account Folders in Mail?

A picture is worth a thousand words:
For some unknown reason, the secondary account folders for my wife's account are missing. How do I restore them?

I've just got public folders working in Mail.app with Exchange. Go to your Exchange folders list in the side panel and select Public Folders. Right mouse or ctrl click to bring up Account Info panel.
Select subscription list tab and wait for the list to populate with available folders. Then go through and select only the folders that you want.
Synchronise and you're done.
If you've ever previously shut off public folder synchronisation by changing permissions drill down into ~/library/mail/Exchange x@x/public folders and make sure read & write is possible.

Using two gmail accounts in Mac Mail client, smtp server issue

I've set up two gmail accounts (one personal, one from my job) in Mac Mail. The personal account is set up via POP, the job account is IMAP. I receive mail into each account with no problem. However Mac Mail won't allow me to set up two separate smtp.gmail.com servers (one for each account). If I edit my SMTP server list and try to change either account individually, it changes BOTH accounts. So I can receive with no problem, but can only send mail from both accounts from ONE account (which ever one I've programed). Is there a way to set up two SMTP severs through gmail (one for each account)?

I have two separate ones set for password authentication to two different accounts.
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I have a mail account that allows me to use either POP3 or IMAP
The mail provider junks my mail after 30 days, so I need to keep local copies on my iPad
Snag is, if I use IMAP to connect to the mail server, although I can create folders, these are NOT local and are still subject to the 30 day purge
If I use POP3 I do get local copies of my mail, so they are protected from the 30 day purge, BUT I cannot create local folders so everything has to stay in my INBOX
These seem to be the only choices I have as I don't see a way to create local folders for a POP3 mail account - and neither do any 3rd party mail apps I have looked at provide the same functionality
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Phil G

Update
We've had zoho mail accounts lying around for some time, and I can define one of these as an IMAP mail account from iPad
I can create folders at will on the zoho account AND IOS mail client allows me to move mail messaged BETWEEN mail accounts, so she can keep her existing mail account but move things she wants to keep easily to zoho
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Completely delete Exchange account from Mail client on Mac

I'm having a problem with a several e-mail messages in my Mail client. These messages seem "stuck" in that whenever I try to delete these messages, I get an error message in Mail that says:
An error occurred while moving messages to mailbox “Trash — Exchange”.
I named the account Exchange. These messages are NOT on my Exchange mail server anymore - I also access my mail from an Outlook client as well and these "stuck" messages do not appear in Outlook which is pulling directly from Exchange.
My first attempt to resolve was to delete the account from the Mail client and set it up again. All of the folders and e-mail messages re-appeared almost instantly so it obviously didn't go out to the Exchange server and pull down over 100K e-mail messages in 30 seconds.
Then I spoke to AppleCare. They directed me to the Library to delete a subfolder in the Mail folder that appeared to contain the messages. When I emptied the Trash, it appeared that the 100K messages were being deleted. I went to Mail to setup the account again. Again, the messages reappeared quickly as before and the problem messages were still there as if they never were deleted.
So now I'm looking for a way to completely the Exchange account and all of its local data from Mail. I want the Mail client to start from scratch and go out to the Exchange server to get the data like the account had never been setup on this Mac before. I'd also opt for a fresh install of Mail but I have a MBA 11 so I don't have OS media or a DVD drive.
Somewhere Mail is clealry caching info on that account. It's apparent when I've deleted the account and then re-opened Mail to set it back up the first time. Whenever the dialog box appears, it remembers my Exchange e-mail account information in the field so it's obviously pulling that information from somewhere locally on the Mac, not from the server.

As you say, removing the Exchange account on Mail really doesn't delete it. It's caching something because of how quickly it finds the folders etc. if you add the account again.
I was having a lot of very strange problems with Mail/Contacts/Calendar and certainly a new user I set up from scratch worked with Mail etc. straight away. I didn't test it for days but within seconds it pulled down all the correct emails and the number of unread tallied with my iPhone which was one of the annoying problems I was having.
One of the things I read elsewhere is how useful doing a Mailbox/Rebuild from within Mail is. I just tried it now on my existing user name and it certainly seems to have helped. It immediately refreshed the Inbox and had it accurate. However, despite having it set to "1 min checking for new mail" after several mins it seems to have hung again and isn't refreshing.
Mail for OSX has caused me a million more problems that for iOS which just works every time. I don't see how Apple can make it work so smoothly on iOS and give loads of problems on OSX.
Have you tried the Mailbox/Rebuild?

How to setup mail client in Data Integrator 11.7 to make use of mail_to()

How to setup mail client in Data Integrator 11.7 to make use of mail_to() function.
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I posted a question in the eMac discussion group, but realize now that I should have posted it here. So I hope I shall be forgiven for posting it again here.
I have three different mail clients: Apple Mail, SeaMonkey, MS Entourage. I recently had some trouble unconnected with mail that necessitated my switching my computer off by its power switch. Thereafter none of the three mail clients would download mail, all saying that sending my password did not succeed.
The password itself is correct. The e-mail system of my ISP (www.btinternet.com) is web-based, and I have no problem displaying my incoming mail in any of my browsers (Safari, SeaMonkey, Firefox), so this shows that my password is accepted by my ISP.
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Yes, I understand (and understood) that, too, Kurt188. But when I referred to being able to read my mail in my browser, I was not referring to logging in manually (by typing my password). When I open my web-mail in my browser, my password is recognized by my ISP automatically. This must be achieved by software in my computer; otherwise anyone who knows my e-mail address would be able to read my mail without using a password just by going to btinternet.com. Thus my password must be stored in my computer and automatically sent to btinternet every time I go to my mail page on btinternet. That, surely, is a similar process to my mail client sending my password to btinternet.
Admittedly, the password that my mail client sends is stored somewhere associated with that mail client, because when I set up my account in the mail client I had to type my password into the account-setting page (and I had to do the same with each of my backup mail clients). To that extent it is a different process. But the point is that both the web-mail (browser) process and the mail-client process originate in my computer, and both terminate in my ISP recognizing my password (or not!).
The only thing I can think of to account for my problem other than a fault in my software is the supposition that my browsers encode my password differently (perhaps by their particular kinds of encryption) than my mail clients, and that my ISP temporarily recognized all the three browsers' encodings but not the encodings created by each of my three mail clients. It doesn't sound likely to me; but if this is what you meant, I am prepared to bow to superior knowledge and accept your explanation.

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