Convert pop account to imap - lose sent messages and inbox messages

I converted a pop account to imap and lost the ability to search through messages prior to the conversion. Luckily I backed up all the messages. How do I get the ability to search them back? I tried moving them into the appropriate folder in finder, but they don't show up in mail.

i am having a similar problem - all of my sent messages disappeared from my mail program. i've located them in my home folder but can't figure out how to see them in my sent mailbox from the mail program ????

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  • Converting POP account to IMAP

    I've upgraded an e-mail account from POP to IMAP.
    I understand that I can not change the setting of the mailbox in mail after it has been set up.
    So I have had to create a new IMAP account.
    A new "inbox" folder got created, but no new "sent" box.
    Now I want to get rid of the old pop account and copy the old mails in to the new mail boxes.
    But I have no new "sent" box to copy the old sent e-mails to!!!
    Any ideas why I didn't get a new "sent" box when I set up the IMAP account?
    Even better if anyone can suggest a better way to convert a POP account to IMAP.
    Thanks

    Remember that things might take a while to set up. Not too long and not immediately but somewhere inbetween.
    If these are .mac or .me.com accounts you might also notice that there is no IMAP Reminders (that is To Do and Notes) folder that is until you create a To Do or Reminder and then the folder will appear.
    What is quite neat is setting up multiple IMAP email accounts and managing those from within Mail. It's stunningly brilliant at what it does.
    Of course, if you Mobile Me stuff and use your account on other computers it is stunningly more brilliant still.
    POP is good for beginners but for real, gritty email stuff IMAP wins clearly as can be.
    For even more fun set up third party IMAP email addresses (one.com have a pleasant offer on the go) and these are resilient to ISP changes and avoid compromising one's .mac or .me.com account and provide relatively good fun

  • Convert POP account to IMAP without losing messages

    I have several POP accounts I'd like to turn into IMAP accounts so I can use them more effectively on multiple machines. Unfortunately if I just create new IMAP accounts and then delete or disable my old POP accounts Mail hides all the messages attached to those accounts. I'm assuming there's some trick to convince Mail to associate the old messages with the new account (which will have the same name, user name and password, but I don't know what it is. If anyone knows, or knows of a string where this question is answered I'd be very grateful for the pointer.

    first, your email providers for those accounts have to offer IMAP access. very few providers provide both POP and IMAP access. gmail is one. but if an email provider does not provide IMAP access then there is nothing you can do.
    but assuming they do provide IMAP access, create separate mailboxes in "on my mac" section and copy contents of inbox and sent folders for those accounts to those local folders. then delete POP accounts in mail preferences->accounts and recreate them as IMAP. then copy the messages you saved in the local folders in "on my mac" section" to the inbox and sent folders of the newly created IMAP accounts.

  • Sent messages and inbox messages all appearing in same list

    Hi there
    Please can anyone tell me how I can separate out my sent messages from my inbox messages? Currently when I go to "Messages" from the home screen it takes me to a list of all messages, both sent and received, altogether. I've not had this with any other phone - normally have an "inbox" and "sent" - please is it possible how I can see the messages separately as you would do normally, not all together in one long list?
    Are there any Apps to allow me to do this? Does iSMS allow this functionality - to have messages separated into inbox and sent folders accordingly?
    Thank you for any help answering my question.

    It's an absolutely brilliant phone don't get me wrong but this issue dumbfounds me. SMS is the biggest feature on every mobile. Why would a company deliberately choose to design a messages page and have all messages together instead of taking a bit more time (and money) developing it a bit further as with 99% of modern phones and move messages into appropriate folders - inbox, sent, drafts? Just to put them all in one list, making it impossible to tell which are ones you have written or been sent to you.
    For example: if I send a text sms to John Smith that message appears under "John Smith" in the messages page, and then when John replies to it that message too appears under "John Smith" in the same messages page (no other information other than the name of the person) - absolutely no way at all to tell which is the one I have sent and the one I have received without manually clicking into each - if I had 50 messages this would be very impractical as you can imagine. You can see my frustration?
    You cannot tell which messages you have sent and ones you have received - even a small marker like "R" for received and "S" for sent would help distinguish between them and be an improvement if all were to stay in the same page like they do. Is Apple likely to provide a solution to this soon in a next update?

  • How can I convert a POP account to IMAP

    I have a POP account in the form [email protected], and I have just changed my hosting company from one that handles POP accounts only to one where accounts can be either POP or IMAP. The question is: how do I convert my existing POP account to IMAP? My main reason for wanting to do that is to keep the "Sent" folder synchronized so that Mail's sent item folder automatically gets stuff I send through web mail just like it does with my Dot Mac account.
    I tried removing the existing POP account; this causes any email associated with this account that has not been moved to an "On my Mac" folder to vanish. When I create an IMAP account, these mails don't reappear, even though the email address is the same. Recreating the POP account, though, brings these emails back to life.
    Of course, I can have both account definitions with the POP one having it's "include when automatically checking for new mail" checkbox unchecked, but that's really inelegant. Is there a way to convert the POP account into an IMAP account?
    Daniel

    Ernie Stamper wrote:
    If the Inbox for this account only is revealed, is there any triangle beside it?
    Ah, yes, I see! Silly me to be looking for Sent mail under "Sent"! Indeed, there's a disclosure triangle next to the account name under "Inbox", and wen you open it, it shows Drafts, Sent, spam, and Trash. The sent items are indeed there.
    Mind you, my Dot Mac accounts show up normally, i.e., their sent mail goes under "Sent". Wish all IMAP accounts did that. It sure isn't logical to show sent mail inside an inbox...
    But to answer your question: In addition to having the "Sent" folder for the account under "Inbox", I also have a folder for the account under "Sent". This folder disappears when I check the box to store messages on the server. There were emails in it (the ones I placed there myself). I have now moved those emails to the sent sub-folder under the account under "Inbox". Even with the "store on server" option UNchecked, the emails were instantly duplicated to the server, so that they were present both locally and remotely. I then checked the "store on server box"; this made the mailbox for the account under "Sent" vanish.
    To summarize: things appear to work normally now, except that I find it very inconvenient to have to look in two separate "Sent" folders to find emails I've written.
    Daniel

  • How to move/copy the pst POP account to IMAP account directly.

    Hi,
    We are using POP account for our email communication.Due to issues in POP account,we are planning to use IMAP for downloading the emails and also for synchronization with mobile devices.
    Please let me know how to copy the pst file of POP account to IMAP account.
    Is there any possibility available of copying /Moving PST pop account to IMAP account directly.
    Your support is highly appreciated.
    Regards
    Pradeep.R

    Hi Pradeep.R,
    We cannot move an existing POP3 account directly to an IMAP account. To do this, you should first remove your current POP3 account, then add your IMAP account into Outlook client. After this, transfer your current mails, which you downloaded
    via POP3 to your IMAP account.
    You should contact your email service provider for the correct IMAP account settings.
    To transfer your data, simply select the messages or folders in the existing .pst file, then drag and drop them into your current IMAP account.
    Hope this helps.
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  • DIFFERENCE BETWEEN iDOC MESSAGING AND bDOC MESSAGING

    hI
    gurus what is the diffrence between idoc messaging and bdoc messaging?
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    as an IDoc.
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    BDoc types exclusively used for mobile applications
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    BDoc types for synchronization between the consolidated database in the CRM Server and mobile applications
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    BDoc types exclusively used for non-mobile applications
    They consist of:
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    Standard BDoc types are provided by SAP. Additional BDoc types can be modeled by customers.
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  • Converting on mail.app POP account to IMAP? How can I do this?

    Hello,
    hope someone can help me. I just recently bought a domain name with all its software on GoDaddy. Unfortunaltely I found out, that the POP account offered, does not syncronize my mail between my iMac and iPhone, as Gmail or Yahoo do, these are IMAP accounts... Even though I tried through the mail.app assistent to sent up a new IMAP account, GoDaddy does not allow this. So I called them up, to know why, I would have to purchase an upgrade, to switch from POP to IMAP. My question: is there a way around this purchase? I have read, that many people leave their mail on the server, but would prefer my pop account to work as an IMAP , that is syncronize mail on my iMac and phone. I can not create a new IMAP account, while doing so GoDaddy server will tell me , that I can not connect to their server... What happens if I use the Yahoo server instead? Someone has a clue? Thank you in advanced for your responses. Hug, René

    You're trying to do this in the wrong place. This is a bit complicated but I'll try to walk you through it.
    First make sure you have a Google Apps account. This sill carry a charge, but I suspect it will be worth it. It is for me. Check here for details and to register: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html.
    You will have to choose one of the ways to verify your domain ownership. More details here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60216
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    Scroll down to the "MX (Mail Exchanger" section and Google's settings found here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174125
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  • Changed POP-account into IMAP: where are my old messages?

    Few weeks ago, I created an IMAP-account (just bougt a MacBook).
    Now it seems all POP-history has disappeared.
    I named the IMAP-account, the same accountname as the POP-account before. I didnot backup or archive.
    I checked ~/Library/Mail/, didnot find my old POP-folders, only new IMAP-folders.
    I found the attats in the trash, but not the emlx's that were in my POP-folders. Are they hidden somewhere? Any way to restore these emlx's?
    Any suggestions very welcome.
    Har ©

    Hi BDAqua,
    First, thanks for your quick reply. Had I been that fast...
    I looked at the data-rescue software you recommended. It states that you don't have to be technical, however data recovery seems not my cup of tea. And then, me and my family used this Mac for another three weeks since, before I found out my old messages had disappeared. So if these files are not waiting in some folder, I guess it's a mess.
    I think I'll take my loss of about one year of adresses, id's, passwords, confirmations etc. Luckely I found there was a lot of this saved in the attats and in keychain access as well.
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  • How do you install gmail as POP account instead IMAP?

    It was suggested that I should convert Gmail account to a POP account to resolve the problem of deleting emails both from my MAC mail and gmail website account.

    Routing gmail through Mail.app:
    imap-http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=81379&topic=12814
    pop-http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275&topic=12810
    More up-to-date advice here:
    http://www.macworld.com/article/2033842/make-mail-and-gmail-play-nice.html#tk.nl _mwhelp
    Note that you lose privacy when using Gmail (and Yahoo):
    Gmail and Yahoo both scan users' emails. They do algorithmic analysis of your email messages, targeting ads that relate to the content of your messages. Defenders point out that "they", are not people, but machines. And they argue that it is a harmless way of making advertising relevant to users and raising revenues.
    Others might say that whether a machine or a human is doing the work, the potential for a privacy breach is there.

  • Move folders in pop account to IMAP account in Mail

    Hi all,
    My wife has had her Gmail setup as a pop account in Mail for about 3 years. We would like to switch over to imap so that her iPhone and iPad and Macbook all stay synced. She has a lot of folders that she has created in Mail to store emails and we don't want to lose them.
    ANy ideas?
    Thanks!

    Yes.  The folders  On My Mac will not be effected.
    Only the inbox Sent and drafts. Basically starting fresh
    You can save your current inbox folder to something like old-inbox folder to On My Mac
    Same with sent folder. old-Sent folder.
    If you try to move the Sent folder to IMAP it will resend every single email again- Don't do it !
    http://www.macworld.com/article/1165600/how_to_convert_a_pop_email_account_to_im ap.html
    You can google fro more information to build your confidence. Read as much as you can.  Always have a good back-up encase you have to revert.  You do not want to risk losing any mail in the transition.

  • POP account to IMAP set up in mac mail

    Hello all
    I have a email account which is POP or IMAP accessable via the hosting provider.
    I have been using the .mac email and like the ability to sync emails in all places , thus I want to switch the one account I have set up as POP , to an IMAP account so I can have this on my business account.
    MY QUESTION:
    is it possible to now set up an IMAP account for this email account, without losing all of the emails I have downloaded , and then have them show up in the account once its set up as an IMAP account.
    I know I would have to Kill the old account to set up the new one?

    it certainly is possible to do that.
    the exact details depend on how your POP is set up. do you keep the messages on server after you download them? If yes, you don't have to do anything special. just create an IMAP account and you are set.
    If you don't keep messages on server after POP downloads then I would do the following.
    1. change the behavior of your POP to NOT delete messages from server upon downloads.
    2. set up IMAP and let it sync.
    It will be lacking old messages from your POP mailbox as they are not on the server. to change that you can copy all the messages from your POP inbox to your IMAP inbox. Just select them all in the POP inbox, right-click and use "copy to" menu.
    WARNING: if you do this, IMAP will sync up and put all those messages back on the server from your computer's mailbox. This can take a VERY long time if your inbox is big. Therefore, it's up to you if you really want to do this.
    After everything is working correctly you can delete the POP account if you wish.

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