I want my old mail setup

I had my Mail set up just fine. All my stuff was stored on gmail and not on my computer. Now Mail suggested I sync gmail. I did and now I think I have an IMAP set up. Its downloading gigs of old messages on my computer. I DONT WANT THIS! Help me get it back please

That has always been visible for any GMail account, since at least Mac OS X 10.5 (aka Leopard), as far as I recall. I'm not sure what you did to not have that visible.
One way that you can get rid of some of those mailboxes is to set Mail to use them. For example, click the triangle to expand it and then select the Drafts mailbox. Then choose Mailbox -> Use This Mailbox For -> Drafts. It'll disappear, but now Mail will use that mailbox as your Drafts folder for GMail. Same with Sent and Trash.
Others, you can log on to your GMail account, click the "gear" icon and choose Mail Settings, then the Labels tab, and uncheck the Show In IMAP box next to any mailboxes you want to hide from Mail.

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Mail started new again... how do I get my old Mail back?

Mail asked for info like when it's first installed, now all my drafts and marked infos are gone. I want my old mail back!
I found it in the Library... but how do I make it see it now?
I erased the new, but when I opened, there was again
Strange...

Most such cases happen because of a shortage (even if temporary) of free disk space on your hard drive, or if partitioned, on the boot partition. The preference is overwritten, but not the message data itself.
If this happened, simply re-enter the account setup info, and then be sure to DECLINE any prompt to Import. When the accounts are again set up, Mail can rediscover the existing mailboxes and account folders.
Ernie

Loss of old mail for Pop mailboxes

Recently I had to force my Powerbook G4 to shutdown as it refused to do so on its own. When I turned it back on the next day, all my mail preferences were gone! I had to completely reconfigure my mailboxes (specifically I use two gmail addresses). Now, however, I am receiving and sending mail with no problem, but I don't have my old mail in Mail. When I go to Library, the messages are still there (they're both POP accounts), so I know they're not deleted. I've tried Importing these mailboxes, but I never seem to get the fabled Import Mailbox when I do so. I'm sorry if this is unclear, I'm at a loss for a better, clearer way to explain. Ultimately, I just want my old mail, both sent and in my inbox to reappear in the Mail Application so I can use that wonderful search feature.

You're welcome.
I just tried removing the [email protected] folder
(keeping a back up copy). I deleted the account and set
it up again, hoping it would reimport my mail from the
gmail server (I'm desperate...), nothing happened.
This is because Gmail only allows messages to be downloaded once with a POP client.
I've still got the copy of the mail, so no worries there.
OK. We'll bring your mail back into Mail, don't worry about that. If the old account folders are no longer in ~/Library/Mail/, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and select the account folders from the backup (one at a time). Note that you must select the folder that contains the mailboxes (i.e. the account folder), not the mailboxes themselves.
If the old account folders were still in ~/Library/Mail/, the procedure would be different. Let me know if that's the case.
At this point, I can live without my messages.
That ain't gonna happen...
But do you have any idea what would cause
my preferences in multiple programs to disappear?
Lack of available disk space, power outages, filesystem corruption...
Verify/repair your disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
You may also want to take a look at the following article:
Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space

Initial Mail Setup for Old AOL Address

BACKGROUND
I have an AOL e-mail address. Until recently, I logged on to the AOL application and retrieved my e-mail that way (I had never used the Apple Mail application). AOL recently allowed their users to get rid of AOL as their ISP and so not use the AOL application, but at the same time to retain their e-mail address. So I got rid of AOL as my ISP and moved to a local cable company.
QUESTION
I still have my AOL e-mail address. I can easily access the e-mail to this address by logging onto AOL.com and going to the e-mail section.
1) Can I also use Apple's Mail to access this e-mail address?
2) If so, how do I set it up? The Mail setup routine is filled with (to me) unreadable techo-gibberish (by the way, I did get a degree in computer science back in the day). My specific questions are (when setting up Mail):
- what Account Type do I want (POP, IMAP, Exchange)? The help files tell me to ask my ISP, which doesn't help me much.
- then (if I guess on Account Type), Mail asks for Incoming Mail Server. Again, I don't know what they're asking for.
Any help would be very much appreciated!
iMac 17" Mac OS X (10.4.7)

You may find AOL Service Assistant - Internet Utilities the simplest way to set up your AOL account for Mail.
Believe it or not, it is a fairly well written, OS X-savvy application. It is also the only simple way to get any saved mail out of AOL's proprietary "Personal Filing Cabinet" format or contacts out of it's proprietary Address Book format.
You can choose to configure any of the four Apple apps its supports individually, but if you choose to import old AOL email, you must configure a Mail account for AOL at the same time. Because of this, I recommend not using the manual method from http://members.aol.com/adamkb/aol/mailfaq/imap/applemail.html to set up the account, because you may end up with two email accounts. I would also first make backup copies of Mail's pref file (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist) & the main Mail docs folder (~/Library/Mail) just in case something weird happens.
If you have a lot of saved AOL mail, the import process can take quite a while, so give it at least say, 10 minutes per 100 messages, before deciding it isn't responding -- there is a progress bar but it doesn't move for minutes at a time. Also, the account settings it installs may be slightly different from the ones in the unofficial guide -- basically, it installs the SSL settings the guide mentions. The included Read Me has more info about that.
I have used this app with Mail & with Address Book & it does work with Mail 2.x & Os 10.4.7.

Hi! I want to transfer my old mails from mac book pro to iPad 2, Please help me on this.

Hi! I want to transfer my old mails from mac book pro to iPad 2, Please help me on this.

Did you select the Pages app to sync to the iPad? Do you know how to do that or do you auto sync and rely on that only?

I do not want to lose mail previous to today, help keep some of old mail.

It seems as though previous mail to today is gone. I do not want to lose old mail. How do I keep it?

There are plenty of possible reasons why mail may disappear. The article lists a number of steps to determine what may have happened. So you'll have to go through the steps and check what happened in your case.
If you get stuck, you can ask here. Please be specific.

Ever since I agreed to install the new Mozilla Firefox I can't even send an e-mail successfully. I want the old Mozilla Firefox back and I will never agree to a newer version of anything. Please give me the old version back.

I want my old Mozilla Firefox back because ever since I agreed to try the new Firefox, I've had nothing but problems every single time I try to send an e-mail. What used to be easy and quick, now is difficult and takes an inordinate amount of time; sending it over and over, and telling the message that tells me something like a page is not responding, to send it again or quit; and I have to do this many times over to get it to send a text. That has never happened before. I will never agree to a newer version again. Just please give me back my old Mozilla Firefox.

Beginning with Firefox 4, Macs must have an Intel x86 processor (which you do NOT have; yours is a PPC Mac) '''''<u>and</u>''''' OSX 10.5 or higher
*System Requirements: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/4.0/system-requirements/index.html Firefox 4] [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/5.0/system-requirements/index.html Firefox 5] [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/6.0/system-requirements/index.html Firefox 6] [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/7.0/system-requirements/index.html Firefox 7] [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/8.0/system-requirements/index.html Firefox 8]
The good news is that Firefox 3.6.24 still supports OSX 10.4 and Macs with the PPC Mac architecture. The bad news is that support for the Firefox 3.6.x series is likely to end in the first quarter of 2012.
*System requirements: [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/3.6/system-requirements/index.html Firefox 3.6.x]
*Download Firefox 3.6.24: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all-older.html
*Also see --> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Installing+Firefox+on+Mac
You can try the third-party product '''''TenFourFox''''' that supports PPC Macs. Firefox 8 version of '''''TenFourFox''''' is available. The product is based on Firefox released versions. All support is provided by the developer, not by this site:
*Home page: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
*Developer's blog: http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/
*VERY IMPORTANT; read this carefully: https://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/wiki/PluginsNoLongerSupported
'''If this reply solves your problem, please click "Solved It" next to this reply when <u>signed-in</u> to the forum.'''

Hi, Mail is driving me crazy by grouping received messages together by subject. I want each message, irrespective of subject, to appear stand-alone on a line of my mailbox. My old Mail did this automatically. How do I get back to old ways! Thanks...Rick

The new Mail is driving me crazy by grouping messages together according to subject. My old Mail, under OSX 10.5, listed each message independently in my Mailbox by date received. One line in my Mailbox for each message. How do I get this way of posting messages back again? Thanks.

So nice of you be so responsive. Thank you. Unfortunately, something is just not right even though I pretty much always keep my Macs in good health. When I move that folder (~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail) and let it create a new one, Mail stops remembering ANY preferences. I can move and resize my windows and change my Prefs, but when I quit and relaunch Mail it goes back to some default state with none of my changes honored. Furthermore, when I search for the string "DisplayInThreadedMode" with BBEdit within that folder and all its subfolders, nothing is found.
Maybe it has to do with how many things I disable on the recent OS X versions. I routinely disable Spotlight, Notification Center, Dashboard, Auto-Save & Versions, Gatekeeper, Automatic App Termination.... you know, all that stuff that I never asked for and don't need/want ;-)
Maybe I could try re-enabling Auto-Save or something. Still, no other apps ever seem to behave strangely when I set all these "hidden preferences" to disable these unwanted OS features. Who knows, maybe the Mail team (programmers) just started assuming something was available which they didn't used to assume in 10.8.

I want to make new password for apple ID, but it link for reset is sending for old mail that I don't have access ages already. I have entered new alternative mail, but they still send reset link to old one. What to do?

I want to make new password for apple ID, but it sends link for reset to my old mail that I don't have access ages already. I have entered new alternative mail, but they still send reset link to old one. What to do?

Apple ID security issues -
Call Apple Care for your country and ask for the Account Security Team. They can assist you with your issue.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699

Have entrourage and want to use Mail. Can't get it to work.

I had a macbook and purchased the Microsoft office for Mac which included Entrourage.
I have now purchased a new macbook Pro and want to begin to use Mail rather than Entrourage.
I have Entrourage on my new computer but i can't get it to transfer my information to the the Mail program
I am on Charter.net at my office and sbcglobal.net at home.
How can i get this to work. I can receive on Mail, but i can't send.

check your outgoing port settings and make sure it's using a specific port and not the default port, also you might want to check to see if it is using SSL, TLS or any other encryption. Verify the setting from your old machine setup.

How do you quickly look in Old Mail for a particular sender?

I'm using Firefox, with AOL within it as my email default.
If I run AOL by itself outside of Firefox, it works fine and allows easy searching for a known sender in Old Mail using the "Quick Find" feature in AOL's Mail Box
How can Firefox be setup to do this? (I don't want to go through a Filter each time)

the "standard" AOL home page is not the same when in Firefox as when outside and independent of Firefox
When one goes to look at AOL's Old Mail in Firefox, there isn't any Mail Box that pops up like in stand-alone AOL. Under AOL Mail '''inside''' of FIrefox, there's only the headings;
''Today on AOL
New Mail
Old Mail
Drafts
Sent''
etc
when one clicks on Old Mail, there's just a listing of past emails, but no way to Quick Search using the sender's name.

HELP! I did an archive and install and I want my old system back

Hello,
I had a big problem that actually ended up being a small problem. Unfortunately to try to fix it I did an archive and install. Now I have come to the realization that my Postfix mail setup, my MySQL setup, my PHP setup, my web pages, my Blog are all gone. Now if I go into the "previous system" folder everything seems to be there. Is there a way to just restore the old system to get all that back without having to reconfigure and redo everything?
I tried to copy the old "Library" back out to the / folder, the problem is that this folder is constantly in use and cannot be replaced.
Any advice?
PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5 Ghz

Joshua:
You said you did an Archive and Install. You did not say whether this was an upgrade or you were re-installing Tiger.
I suggest you read the article linked above, if you have not already done so, and it will give you an idea of what happened. If you chose to preserve User Settings, it should all be there in your new Library. All you need to do it move over your data and you'll be fine. Otherwise you can just move over your entire Users Folder and it will have everything you need.
You said that you want your old system back. I am not sure if you are saying that you want to go to a previous OS, like Panther, or whether you want your computer back the way it was.
a couple of other points, if I may:
1. Re-installation, by whatever method, should always be a avenue of last resort. It is the ultimate invasive therapy and likely result in the situation you are in or worse. Every other avenue should be exhausted before resorting to this rememdy.
2. A good backup strategy is a life saver. During any major procedure, and sometimes without any procedure just of out the blues, your computer can fail and you can lose all your data, your third party apps etc. It is good practice to preferably clone your entire computer to an external Firewire Drive that can also be used as an emergency boot disk.
OK, I gave you much more information that you requested. However, I hope something I said was helpful in terms of recovering your settings and data. Please post back and let me know.
Good luck.
cornelius

Unable to configure Mail setup for SMTP : Please Help

Hi experts,
             I have been trying since 2 weeks with most of the links like help.sap.com, and other links which experts are sugested, but then also I am uable to configure the mail setup for a SMTP server from SAP R/3 4.7EE.
          Couls anyone help me please,
Challenge: I want to send mails from SAP system to other internet servers or mail servers.
                SMTP server is installed,
                 SAP R/3 4.7ee is in place.
I request you experts please provide the exact step by step procedure to configure, so that I should not run behind the links.
Thanks in advance,
Sunil

Hi Juan, Hi Juan,
             Thanks for your reply, I am happy that one big hope has come. regarding my issue its starts from the SCOT configuration, I have created the Node, and under support address types selected INTERNET type.
Under INTERNET settings
address area = *mail
have not mentiond RFC destination.
Hope this info will guide you my issue.
Thanks in advance,
Sunil

Outlook 2013 Mail Setup Add Account crashes or will not connect to Exchange in Windows 8.1

I've posted this in the answers.Microsoft.com forum, as well as the Office365 forum, and they sent me here, saying the Outlook engineers would be the best to help with this. I actually already posted this question a week ago, but nobody here replied.
Getting a bit frustrated at the lack of support, except for Richard over at the Office365 Forum.
I'm setting up a new laptop with Windows 8.1. Just installed Office Professional Plus 2013. I have an Office365 E1 subscription, but this Office 2013 is not associated with the subscription.
When I go to setup any email account using the automatic mode (primary will be Exchange Online with my 365 account, but I've tested POP email accounts with the same result), the Mail Setup crashes once the email address and password is entered and Next is
pressed. This error message is displayed:
"Windows host process (Rundll32) has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available."
The step displayed as in process when the crash occurs is the "Searching for [email address] settings". The first step "Establishing network connection" is checked complete.
I've run an Office Repair, and there's no change. I've run a clean boot, and no change. I uninstalled/reinstalled both from the Click to Run version, as well as reinstalling from a disk install, with the same error still appearing.
If I use the manual setup mode and input the server outlook.office365.com, both the Check Name function and the Next button result in the error message:
"The action cannot be completed. The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action."
I've disabled the firewall and still get this Outlook error. I am able to start Outlook and it will run now, and I can connect POP and IMAP email using the manual setup, but still cannot connect to ExchangeOnline via the manual setup. I still
get the error "The connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete this action."
I deleted the Outlook data file and deleted the profile, and created a new profile, and I'm still getting the Add account setup crash Rundll32 error in the auto-setup mode.
Important to note: I tested my friend's Office365 E3 ExchangeOnline account and was able to get a successful setup test, so it doesn't appear that the problem is entirely just the Outlook2013 client, since it worked once with a 365 Exchange account.
I've been trying to get this working for 2 weeks now, and I am unable to completely switch off my old laptop using Outlook 2010 until I can get Outlook2013 setup on my new one, which is a huge hassle.
Can you offer any ideas or solutions? Please help ASAP.
Thanks,
Jason

IMPORTANT: I found the solution. Another user figured it out and posted the answer on another thread.
Please spread this around to all other Outlook support techs so they know to point people in the direction of the quick (though very obscure) fix to this problem.
See this thread for how to disable graphics acceleration in Office, which iswhat causes the rundll23 error.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2013_release-outlook/rundll32-outlook-mail-windows-host-process-error/bf90e1fd-3985-4b15-bc50-f9b3e937a859?tm=1424345216297
Thanks,
Jason

MY E-mail Setup is different from the User Guide & I do not have a browser option or Icon.

As per the user guide:
Get Set up on Your BlackBerry Smartphone*
To begin:
If there’s an Email Setup option on your smartphone’s home screen, click it.
OR in the setup wizard (which starts automatically the first time you turn on your smartphone), on the email setup screen, select I want to create or add an email address.
Click Next, then if necessary, click Update Now.
If necessary, click Create New Account.
To accept the terms of the license agreement, select Yes and click I Agree.
Set up your email addressIf you want to link an existing, supported email address with your smartphone - you will need to
Click Add An Email Account if necessary, or simply type in your existing email address and password.
Click Next.
If you want to create a new email address for your BlackBerry smartphone (i.e. [email protected]), you will need to
Click Create a BlackBerry email address OR Click I would like to create a new BlackBerry email address.
Type the user name that you want to appear before the @ sign in your new BlackBerry email address.
If necessary, type a password for this email address.
If necessary, select or choose secret question.
If necessary, provide an answer for the secret question you have selected. Click Next
select I want to create or add an email address ( I Dont see this option).
Only option i have is :
1. I want to use a work email account with a BlackBerry Emterprise server.
2. I want to skip email setup.
So here i am unable to configure my email account (disadvantage).
Second option i can open my emails thru the brower option, where as here i nither see the browser icon on the phone. (disadvantage).
Please advice as what to do? How do i go about with this?
Its something like having a dead BB.
Please help.

therech wrote:
So what you are saying is that you "have" to sign up for a BB email address? to get incoming mail from a POP3 like Yahoo?
No that is not how it works.
for your device you need :
a mobile phone subscription (for phone calls & SMS)
a data plan (for MMS)
a BlackBerry Dataplan with BIS account (for all BlackBerry technologies including receiving emails from any email provider)
in item 3, you can if you like ask for a BlackBerry email (= RIM acting as a regular email provider) but I do not recommend it since the features are less than a normal email provider (you can't view those emails except on your device).
The search box on top-right of this page is your true friend, and the public Knowledge Base too:

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