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

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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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
Next, you need to go to Godaddy.com. Log in to your account, then click "My Account" at the top of the page (or the equivalent in Spanish).
Click "Domains", then the green "Launch" button to the right of the domain you want to use.
Click the "DNS Zone File" tab
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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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.
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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.

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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.
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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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If a user is offline can they still view their existing emails with IMAP?
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