AOL mail and mail

I have used aol mail for 15 years, and tried to use mail in OSX , but I got the message that my mail server was not correct for OSX mail. My wife wants to. Keep aol mail, so I would like to be able to switch back. And forth? How do I change the settings?

I have no idea what AOL Cheshire is but the only way you can access an AOL account with an email client such as the Mail.app is via an IMAP account.
http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/
The default settings when creating an IMAP account with Mail include storing Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server. An IMAP account's Inbox mailbox is stored on the server by default which cannot be turned off but you can change the settings for Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences to store these message categories locally on the hard drive instead of on the server.
With the Mail.app, each account's Inbox mailbox is located under inbox regardless the account type so this is normal.
If you change storing Drafts on the hard drive instead of on the server, the account's Drafts mailbox will be located under Drafts in the mailboxes drawer but will not be created automatically by Mail when doing so until you compose a message with the account or save a newly composed message as a Draft.
The same applies to Sent, Trash and Junk.
You can't delete the server stored Voicemail mailbox that is created automatically by AOL nor the other server stored mailboxes created automatically by AOL under your AOL account's icon in the mailboxes drawer.

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Hello Gene,
It sounds like you would like to transfer your mail and mailboxes from one computer to another. I recommend exporting the mailboxes from one Mac and then importing them to the destination Mac. You can find steps in the following articles:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4811
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From Contacts, anyway (the new version of Address Book) you can export to a .abbu file and import then into Outlook. I'm not sure about Mail as I only really use Outlook...
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Howdy everyone,
I'm trying to get my wife's 'new' (aka hand-me-down) 12" PowerBook set up the way she likes it. She uses .Mac Mail, and mostly uses the webmail portion, rather than the Mail.app. Anyway, she's presented me with a question that's stumped me - she wants it set up so that when she deletes a message from .Mac webmail, it stays in her Mail.app Inbox, and vice-versa. I guess you could say that she wants Mail.app to retrieve the messages from .Mac, but doesn't want their mailboxes synced.
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Huxley

A .Mac type account with the Mail.app is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way.
Personal preference but FYI, webmail access is primarily designed when away from your computer and email client needing to access your email account when using a computer with internet access that is not your own.
For what your wife wants, she needs to access her .Mac account as a POP type account with the Mail.app. You can access a .Mac account as a .Mac, IMAP or POP type account with the Mail.app and as an IMAP or POP type account with other email clients.
This will require deleting and recreating the account in Mail selecting POP as the account type when the account is recreated.
All messages that remain on the server will not be affected by this but any messages sent by the account with the Mail.app that are not stored on the server will be deleted when deleting the account in Mail.
If there are any messages in the account's Sent mailbox that need to be saved, transfer all messages from the account's Sent mailbox to a user created "On My Mac" location mailbox before deleting and re-creating the account.
After re-creating the account in Mail as a POP type account, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Advanced tab for the account preferences is a setting for removing messages from the server when downloaded. This should not be selected so no messages will be removed/deleted from the server when downloaded by Mail.
Deleting a message from the server via webmail access for the account will have no effect on messages already downloaded from the server by Mail.

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We have two iMacs and two iPhone 5S at home. Before upgrading to Mavericks and iOS7, all our incoming emails arrived in all four units. That was how we wanted it. After upgrading to Mavericks and iOS7, mail turns up at random and occasionally not at all. Sometimes it arrives in one iPhone and in nothing else. Sometimes it arrives in an iMac and an iPhone. Sometimes in both iMacs but in neither phone.
This is driving us nuts. We have to check all four machines, sometimes phoning home from miles away to establish if emails have arrived.
The mail settings on both iMacs are identical. The settings on both iPhones are identical. As near as Mavericks and iOS7 allow, the settings across the two platforms are identical. I just can't fathom the random behavior of email arrival these days. Neither can our ISP and mail-service provider.
All we want is for all four units to receive all emails.
I realise Mail is causing problems for many people post-Mavericks, but does anyone have any ideas if there is a basic glitch that I'm missing?

Xphile_1002,
While in the Finder, press the Command + F keys.
Search in: Everywhere
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Does anything appear in the results window?
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Have you obtained any system discs yet?
If not, please advise if you would like me to post where they are available.
If the applications have been removed, you will need the system discs to reinstall them.
You really need the system discs. Owning a Mac without system discs, is like owning a car with the hood welded shut.
And as the Mac was pre-owned, it would be a good idea to reinstall the system, to truly make it your own, and eliminate any previous problems.
You could first create a complete backup of the existing system, or at least backup anything that you care to retain.
ali b

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no idea what cat i'm dealing with. went from 7.2.x (might have been 11, can't remember) to 7.5.2. this whole feline thing is beyond me , like going to starbucks and being supposed to order a vente. i get large.
getting used to the new offerings on search (which i imagine they think are better, i'm dubious). the problem is, while they help you narrow in they circumscribe your choices.
if you are looking for ralph waldo emerson but might have emails with and without his middle name it doesn't just allow you to populate the 'from' search with "emerson". it insists on offering you a specific person, and if the mail program has not identified these multiple personalities as one entity then you have to search each individually.
ditto for the subject search. it offers you very specific subjects but suppose i just want to find a word in the subject and not a specific subject title?
although generally it offers you the less helpful option to choose entire message which, many of my searches aren't even offering that option anymore. maybe that is because it doesn't see those words in any email but i know they are there. it often skips over emails that i know have the required word in them or in the subjec. This is just driving me crazy.
may be some kind of an indexing problem but i have no idea how it indexes or searches.
i tried the rebuild command and that slightly improved results but did not fix the fact that it ignores some emails that have the search indecie in them. and itt simultaneously threw away my last three weeks of emails. they are still out there on my providers server, but i can't get it to repropagate into the email program. when i check mail it just gets new mail but not the mail sitting there that it does not have. maybe it put it somewhere and still has it, or maybe it informed my email provider that it had already downloaded the email to this computer so it won't do it again even though there is no version of that email currently in my inbox.
and i'm not sure what else it did. i used to have 89000 emails in the count showing next to my inbox in the left column (although i'm never clear if that number was the total or the unread) and now I have 49000 although i don't notice any other date range or obvious category of missing emails, who knows.
I used to think that mail kicked *** for keeping track of and finding emails in this large archive. i'm always looking back to things i ordered 3 years ago to order them again, etc. it has just been abyssmal since the upgrade. i have occasionally pushed my onboard memory because this is an Air with 64MB storage. I'm using 64 GB low profile cruzer "fit" usb memory for all my documents and i have plenty of space on there but no idea if i could move the target email folder off the internal HD and tell mail how to find it. This would help prevent my occasional low memory issues.
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search does not find messages that meet the criterion. it finds some but not others. i haven't been able to detect a pattern.
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sometimes it won't even let me put a search in for entire document.
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basically it hasn't been sound since i upgraded a year ago and i've just been living with it but it is really getting intolerable when i need to find emails i know exist and it can't find them. better handling of large volumes of mail is one of the reasons i use the mac in the first place.
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How to recover Mail and Mail Downloads when you can't use Migration Assistant

I have a MacBook 2.4gHz that had a 750GB HD that crashed yesterday. Disk Utility said "This Hard Drive has failed, recover or backup what you can, then reformat." So, I removed the 750GB HD and replaced the original 160GB HD and reinstalled OS 10.7 on that Drive. I put the 750GB HD in an external case and hooked it up by USB (only available hookup with my external case). I can see all my content and tried to use Migration Assistant, but it hangs up at "preparing content to transfer." So, I decided I would have to drag all the old content onto my new user on the internal HD. I moved Movies, Pictures, Desktop, Documents, Music, and Downloads. However, I can't move any of the parts of the hidden User Library, primarily because I can't find or see it.
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I realize it could be lost, but literally everything else is still present. FYI: I plan to hang onto the 750 until the replacement HD arrives, so I can be reminded what Applications I had installed. There isn't room for all of those on the smaller HD.
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The replacement drive from WD arrived, but it is a 2TB "upgrade" and it doesn't even fit in my MacBook, so I have to send that back and wait longer.
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I am using mail.app with my .mac mail account. When i delete an email from the inbox it moves it to my trash in the mail.app program and takes it out of the inbox, which is normal. However, it does not do this when i open up my mail using the web. Here, the message is still in my inbox and it is also in the deleted messages folder.
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The problem is I dont click on trash and the back to inbox everytime i use my mail.app program so when i leave the house and check my mail at work using the web everything i deleted the night before is still there.
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any help with this is appreciated. I have searched google and many forums for the answer and have given up.
Thank you

You're welcome.
It does as the selection indicates. It automatically synchronizes changed mailboxes only after a change is made to a mailbox that is stored on the server. So when selecting a message for deletion in the account's Inbox mailbox and after the message is moved to the account's Trash mailbox which stored locally on the hard drive or on the server via Mail preferences, each changed server stored mailbox in Mail is automatically synchronized with the server at that time.

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Outgoing or SMTP Mail Server: smtp.aol.com
Server Port: 587
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I'm so frustrated!
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