Converting POP accounts over to IMAP

Ok so currently our mail server is operating pretty much the way I want it.
Currently all accounts are POP enabled and we have some hotdesk users that use different machines and work from home.
Plus i want a central place to archive our mail from and backup.
So I am thinking IMAP, our email clients are ahem cough Entourage and it seems I can't change the already existing accounts over to IMAP can this be done?
If a user is offline can they still view their existing emails with IMAP?
I think thats it for now.

well I'n now running myself as a client IMAP and seems all ok.

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I have 2 POP accounts and 2 IMAP accounts in Mail.....

I have 2 POP accounts and 2 IMAP accounts in Mail 6.2 (1499), how do I ensure they all leave messages on the server?
I was trying to check with my ISP why they were not sending me notice of my monthly bill. They said they were, and gave me the dates of when the missing ones were sent. They went to check my inbox so that they could re-send the offending messages and said there were no messages there! Hence my question, How do I make sure that messages are left on the server? I have looked in Mail/Preferences, and certainly in the POP accounts the Remove copy from Server is unchecked, on the IMAP accounts, there doesn't appear to be a means of leaving on the server, which, in essence, shouldn't worry me because they are different ISP addresses, (1 = icloud and the other is BT.) and only the one address of the POP account is the one the ISP is sending messages to me.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks
altv

Csound1
I have, indeed, checked with my ISP and they do accept imap accounts. So I followed religiously their instructions, published in their setting e mail information for Mountain Lion website. The instructions were quite simple, and choosing imap was as easy as setting POP mail. however, the net result was that I could never connect with the servers to do anything with the mail. I know they are set up correctly, but when it tried to send mail, after a while an error message came up saying that it couldn't connect and gave me the option of dealing with a "connection doctor" or some such system. This I clicked on and noted that there were an awful lot of servers that it was trying to connect to some of which had been removed when I removed the setup addresses. The ones I wanted were, in fact, showing as connected!! It was obviously checking on anything that had been used in setting a server name from way back when and suffering with a severe bout of indigestion!
I think what really needs to happen is to get iMAC/Mountain Lion to regurgitate all that rubbish which is no longer a requirement, since I am only using three addresses, one from icloud and two from my ISP. I do not need the clogging up from redundant server names, but it seems that the MAC hangs on to everything just in case I may want to go back to them rather than set them from afresh!! I am not feeling too confident in trying to set the address that originally showed the problem, my BT one, and since this morning, it is almost working 100%, I'll leave well alone and see if it settles down. (One step forward and nineteen backwards!!)
Cheers
altv

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 - 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 ????

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.

I have a POP account but need IMAP

Hello,
My ISP only offers POP accounts. Because I have a tower and a laptop I really want the emails to be in sync. After researching I realize I need IMAP and .Mac.
I dont think I can switch from my ISP yet. Our website it quite big and we still have 2 years paid up with them.
Any suggestions? Would some sort of fowarding work or would it be slower? Also I really need to keep my email address(es) the same.
Thanks a lot for any advice.

Why not forward the messages to a web mail account like Yahoo or GMail?

I have 2 emails accounts one sends and receives fine with a POP account the other IMAP and I'm buggered if i know how to change it or to even check the answer from this question. OMG is there a computer buddy who can help this idiot pleeeeease

Firstly I apologise for my dumness when it comes to computers.
We have a new imac and i have tried to set up our emails. One is setup up under POP (and is fine) and the other under IMAP, its the later that doesnt send or receive. What do I need to do to change the setup. I go into 'account' and where to from there??

You can access, usually under the Apple (icon) menu in the main desktop
window, note item with name "About this Mac" & click on that, to see more
information about your computer, its OS X version, and other. The system
version and build model are there. Do not post a serial number.
If you are setting up Mail in a Mavericks OS X 10.9.x system, there often
is access to information in the Help viewer from the main menu bar, or
in an open mail application. If you have a Gmail or other account, that
info is often on their home page where setup and help are located.
The settings of each email account may vary according to their provider;
so you would have to change your computer to accept them. An older
link to a general look at that issue, change IMAP to POP, is covered here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16770816#16770816
While that may not answer your question, you could use the info in
your Mac OS X system Help viewer and use its search; or maybe
a Spotlight search to see an answer online.
You have to learn some basic things in order to actually use these...
and it helps to expand that so you won't have to pay for tech service
on things you can do yourself in a few minutes, beyond easy stuff.
Of course, you're hearing this from a guy with no ISP email, ever.
So mine are web-mail only; & I never save email to a computer.
PS: If you have a new Mac with an AppleCare plan, you may be able
contact Support for help. Ask someone (for 90 days, or up to 3 years
if the Plan was extended) there at AppleCare, for their guidance.
http://www.apple.com/support/contact/
Good luck & happy computing!
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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

Redirecting Multiple IMAP and POP Accounts to iCloud?

My ultimate goal is be able to sync all of my mail between my desktop and laptop Macs (both on Yosemite). I have 8 email accounts — a few IMAPs, but mostly POPs. I have thousands and thousands of emails saved in Apple Mail mailboxes. Rather than converting each account individually to IMAP, can I redirect all of them to iCloud? And, if so, can I then maintain all of those accounts and all of those mailboxes, without countless hours of work?

Excellent and helpful answer, Roger. Thank you very much. That opened my eyes to a couple of things.
I've been dragging my feet (for a year or two) on doing this, in part because I feel more confident in storing my massive email history locally than somewhere that I can't see. It's just old-school thinking. I do have my Apple Calendar and Contacts now in iCloud, so an old dog can learn new tricks. Still, I back them up locally, maybe once a week, plus I have Time Machine going all the time. And I back up my Mail and Mail Downloads folders, both for safekeeping, as well as to bring my laptop momentarily up-to-date with my desktop Apple Mail.
So, if I were to store my entire Apple Mail life in iCloud, with all of my individual email accounts actually living there (not just pointed there, as I was considering), is there an easy and fast way to keep a local backup? (Zipping and backing up the Mail and Mail Downloads folders literally takes something like four hours.) Or would Time Machine also be backing up what's in the cloud, too, without any effort?
And now to you other eye-opening point about replying. If I actually convert all of my accounts to IMAP and sync all of those accounts with iCloud, would I then be able to send and receive emails as I do now, through my other servers, and using my various email addresses and signatures? By the way, my primary server is Comcast, if that makes any difference.

Pop account to 1&1 IMAP e-mails are deleted each month, but have correct settings.

I have recently changed my pop account to a IMAP account as I was fed up deleting e-mail of each computer. Now I have found that with the IMAP account it deletes my e-mails every month so I can't go back to previous months. But the odd thing is that the mail setting is tick to never and on my 1&1 server its set to the same.
How can I stop this from deleting my e-mail every month? As with the Pop account it just kept all the e-mails I received.? Luckily I didn't change my laptop to a IMAP account, so if I can't stop it deleting my e-mails every month how can I import my e-mails from the laptop which as the pop account with my old e-mails?
Any help would be grateful.
Cheers!

I apologize; I should have mentioned I already tried that, multiple times
It's almost like, since the messages show a qty in the status bar, that their text has been changed to white, the background color. But when i use Search Messages to get at what's there, the text color is black as it should be.
Any further comments welcomed.
Thanks much

How to Send Email on iPad 3G if you have a 3rd Party POP Account

After a nice chat with the helpful support guys at O2, it may be worth me telling everyone here who has:
1. an iPad with Wifi and 3G
2. a POP email account with another home broadband provider (as I do)
This is a long post, but it's all worthwhile stuff. As they say in the US, 'your mileage may vary' so I'm not guaranteeing this solution will work for you, but it was the only way I can get my iPad Wifi+3G to successfully send emails when at home and out and about. It ain't pretty, so let's hope it gets cleared up in OS 4 grin
Before you begin, ensure that:
1. Wifi is turned off
2. You are in range of your 3G service.
3. You have already set up your iPad to work at home using your Wifi router with your broadband provider's POP and SMTP servers.
What you must do. (Have iPad in landscape format to follow along)
1. Tap the 'Settings' App on the Home screen
2. Tap on 'Email Contacts and Calendars' option (on the left)
3. In the panel on the right, tap on your POP email account, under 'Accounts'
4. When the Account pane pops up, scroll down to 'Outgoing Mail Server'
5. Tap on the server
6. Tap 'Add Server...' under 'Other SMTP Servers' to add your carrier's SMTP server
7. When the input pane appears type the carrier's smtp server, which may look like smtp.o2.co.uk or smtp.three.co.uk or whatever...
8. tap 'Save'
9. You will have to wait while iPad tries to use SSL. Eventually iPad will ask you to connect to the server without SSL.
10. Tap 'yes' to try without SSL
11. When iPad gets back to you, tap on the carrier's server in the 'Other SMTP Servers' list. (iPad goes back to the previous screen when the server is verified)
12. A new panel will appear, showing the server settings. Leave these alone, except for turning the server to 'on'
13. Tap 'Done' (top right corner)
14. Now turn your isp's outgoing server off (tap on your primary server and tap on the 'off' on the switch on the settings panel for the server)
15. Tap 'Done' at the top right and work your way back to the main settings screen
16. Now you can test your email
17. Turn iPad off. Not just 'off' but 'OFF'. Hold sleep/wake for a few seconds and slide the switch when asked to turn iPad OFF
18. Turn iPad back on again (sorry but this OFF/on is essential)
19. Tap on the Mail app
20. Compose a test email
21. Tap 'send'
Hopefully, after a few seconds of the little whirly thing rotating next to the 3G symbol, you'll hear a 'whoosh' and your email was sent.
What you must remember to do, when switching between Wifi and 3G:
In order for Wifi email and 3G email to live in harmony with iPad, iPad needs to be switched off between using one service or the other, and you will need to ensure that only the correct SMTP server is switched on.
This is not pretty.
Unfortunately, the hopeful statement on the settings screen that indicates that iPad can use several SMTP servers, one after the other, does not work when you switch from Wifi to 3G and back. It seems that iPad Mail app suffers from hyperthymesia and gets confused very easily and has to have its hand held.
This is the only way I have managed to send emails from my POP account over Wifi and 3G on O2. Receiving email is fine with no need to turn iPad off and on.
Don't worry if you forget, and then get an odd message about 'rejected recipients'. Just switch from one SMTP server to the other and turn iPad OFF and on, then reopen the Mail app and the email should send fine.
Mark

Most, if not all internet service providers block the use of SMTP servers that are outside of their network or not provided by the ISP being used for your internet connection at the time unless the SMTP server is authenticated. This restriction is part of an overall effort to prevent spam emanating from the ISP's domain and when connected to a cellular internet network for internet access is no exception.
This has been in place and an issue for a long time - well before the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad were introduced that firmware update 4.0 can't do anything about.
I access two email accounts and both have an authenticated SMTP server. I've never had any problems sending with either account regardless the ISP being used for my internet connection with various wi-fi networks and when connected to AT&T's cellular network.
Most ISPs don't provide an authenticated SMTP server, but a number of other email account providers do. Apple does with a MobileMe account, and so does Google with a Gmail account to name only two.

Pop accounts on iPhone 4S

Further to my post about not being able to set up one of my 3 pop email accounts on my new iPhone 4S [2 are on their working fine], I can now receive mails but still cannot send them. I synch this phone through iTunes on a Mac Pro and all 3 account work on my iPad but just one won't work on my iPhone.
I have deleted the account and set it up again but from the get go you do not have an option to set up a pop account, only an IMAP account. Is there anyway around this?
Doesn't make sense when my other 2 accounts at POP account and they work perfectly on the phone, but just thos one doesn't and it's set up exacly like the other 2. Only differenc is that I have many more boxes in this account besides Inbox, Trash and Sent - I have a load of Gmail [greyed out] boxes as well.
Would appreciate any help or thoughts.

Some providers set up an extra email password for the mail account, which is different from the one you use on your computer or home network, when you are trying to receive or send mail from another device like an iPhone or via a distant computer using the Internet.

Pop accounts don't show up in mail window

I have one email account that is IMAP and two Pop accounts. The IMAP shows up in the email window but the POPs don't. All showed up before today and no changes have been made. How do i get the POP accounts to show up again?

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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
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
Once it's all set up, you can set up your imap accounts using Google's settings here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105694

Converting POP to IMAP for Gmail

I've been using the Apple Mail app for many years, to access gmail. I almost never access gmail with a browser. But the gmail account is a POP account, which, now that I have an iPhone, is pretty frustrating.
I understand how to convert the gmail account (disable account on Mac, change account type at Google website, create new IMAP account on Mac). But this will sync my Mac to the mail Google now has. And since I've been managing the whole account from the Mac, and email deletions on the Mac have no effect on Gmail, Gmail has vast amounts of mail that I've deleted from the Mac.
How do I switch to IMAP and get the server to match what's on my Mac?
Many thanks to anyone who can help --

Thanks, guys, that's very helpful, but discouraging.
I found this article:
How to convert a POP email account to IMAP
The basic idea in the article is that you take your whole inbox, drag it to a folder "On My Mac", then switch the account type and set up the IMAP account on the Mac. Then drag all the messages from the folder you created back into your new inbox. You do the same for your sent folder and drafts folder.
It seems that the article implies that when you put the mail back into the new IMAP account in Mac Mail, that the server will sync with it.
Or … I could drag everything into folders "On My Mac" as an archive, delete everything from gmail (is there a way to do that?), then switch and essentially start over.
Or … I could start forwarding all the Gmail POP mail to my icloud mail account and stop checking gmail.
Does any of that make sense? Any other ideas? The idea of going through 4 1/2 years (and 2.5 GB) of mail via googles web interface and making sense of it seems pretty daunting to me.
Thanks again --

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