Mail & notes. POP, IMAP?

I use POP for Mail on my MacBook Pro. I want to be able to delete emails from my phone without deleting them from the server, so I use POP on my iPhone 5S, too.
After I finished setting up my email accounts, I noticed that after each account name, Settings says "Mail," rather than "Mail, Notes."
Will my Notes sync across devices with POP email setups?

Yes, I am doing just that, but earlier when I would press START, it would give me the menu seen in the image above.
1] OVI by Nokia
2] Yahoo!
3] Gmail
4] Hotmail
.... etc.
Now I get only
1] Mail for Exchange
2] POP / IMAP
3] Lotus notes Traveler
No Yahoo, Gmail, options. So even if I fill the username and password, I can't download the mails.

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My clients can login to SMTP but not POP/IMAP

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Here is the problem. I took my preexisting admin account and added mail access to it, and my account works fine: SMTP, IMAP, POP, Webmail.
But for all the clients I just added, they can only send mail through the server, authenticating as themselves. POP/IMAP/Webmail all give "Unknown user or password incorrect" errors.
I have seen this problem before on 10.5 and was never able to resolve it. Anyone have any ideas?
Also previously on 10.4 and 10.5 I entered accounts manually using the POSTFIX VIRTUAL techniques from pterobyte. (http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/45/62/). This worked well for me in the past, anyone have an opinion whether I should utilize this technique instead on 10.6?
Thanks,
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So, it seems if I let the users "Administrate the server" then they can check their mail successfully.
Seems like it would imply a permissions issue, maybe?
Weird. Can't leave the server like this, but its a clue...

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I've searched the HELP topics and have not seen how to solve this problem. I have multiple accounts set up in Mail; a couple are yahoo.com/sbcglobal.net accounts and a couple are through two different companies for which I work. Most of them are set up as POP accounts, and they are behaving properly. The problem is with the one that is set up as an IMAP account. It successfully sends and receives mail, but it will not save drafts or the outgoing mail. I realize I can blind-copy myself and have the messages saved as incoming, but I'd really like them saved as drafts and outgoing. Thanks for any advice!

Hi Dantedelg,
If you are having an issue with your MacBook Air's Mail application not saving the Sent mail, you may want to check your Mail Preferences under Accounts > your account > Mailbox Behaviors > Sent. What is the setting for Delete sent messages when: set to? You may wish to change this setting. See this article -
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Access Microsoft Outlook WebAccess through Mail (No POP/IMAP addresses)

Hi--I would like to use Mac OS X's Mail to download my mail from a Microsoft Exchange server. I do NOT have any pop/smtp/imap servers...Microsoft's Entourage has a built-in feature to download emails directly from the Internet using the "https://mail.mydomain.com/exchange" URL. I've tested it, and it works with my username and password.
Supposedly there is not a way to do this with Mail since I do not have actual servers, only a webaddress. Can anyone advice me, or point me in the correct direction? Plug-in? Thank you!

Also, by default exchange server 2003 only allows relaying from microsoft products... see this comment froma a Microsoft tech document on enabling IMAP:
By default, Exchange allows relaying only from authenticated clients. It is recommended that you keep this default. Clients such as Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0 and Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003, and previous versions of Outlook Express and Outlook support SMTP authentication in addition to Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption."
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/guides/E2k3FrontBack/ed3de 949-dd54-426b-b32a-31fdaab5fd02.mspx?mfr=true

Access to owa mail - no pop/imap

I am wondering about accessing owa mail from an exchange server that has pop and imap disabled.
Few hours of googling did not yield much, apart from old, unmaintained python scripts and mrpostman.
Anybody dealing with the same problem who has found a solution?
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delcake wrote:
I use FetchExc to grab mail from my work Exchange server and drop in in a local mailbox using procmail. Works pretty well, though I can't send mail back out as I haven't tried to figure out if there's an accessible SMTP server or not.
The link for FetchExc is: http://www.saunalahti.fi/juhrauti/index.html
It says it works for Exchange 2000/2003, but it might not be limited to just that.
Thank you.
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Yikes.
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The cox mail arrives nicely in my apple mail, configured port 25.
The aol mail does not work, how do I configure it? Port 25 does not work on aol mail, it suggest port 587, but this one will not work on the cox mail.
Cox mail is configured as "pop", aol mail as "imap" in the prefs.
Is it possible to receive both cox and aol in apple mail, and if so, how?
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After setting up IMAP email following Google's instructions, continue with these extra tweaks: http://5thirtyone.com/archives/862
This will properly set up your Drafts, Deleted Items, and Sent mail.
I was getting items in my Inbox just fine. I believe you have to set Root Folder Path to \[Gmail\] with the brackets around it. This option is available by right-clicking your account and select Properties. Scroll to the IMAP tab to find Root Folder Path.
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Apple Mail not updating IMAP inbox

When new mail arrives in an IMAP inbox, Apple Mail will not show the new messages until several hours pass or Mail is quit and restarted. The new mail is visible via other IMAP clients (Thunderbird, Entourage, iPhone) but not in Apple Mail. This occurs once or twice a week with no obvious common trigger. It is happening on my personal computer and many of my client's systems. I've tried rebuilding Inboxes, re-syncing accounts, deleting envelope indexes, creating new mail accounts, new users, etc.... The problem will always return eventually and only quitting and restarting Mail will cause the IMAP INBOX to update.
Affected system: Apple Mail, Snow Leopard 10.6.3 although this has been occurring on multiple systems going back to 10.5 with multiple email providers.
I've searched and searched and just found numerous people with the same issue and no solutions. All of those threads were archived with replies no longer allowed, so I started yet another thread.

Ernie Stamper wrote:
That is correct, but this IDLE to achieve push email might not be working well, at least with Mail. But post back if this does not correct the problem.
Ernie
I have two systems that have the issue and both had the IDLE box checked. I unchecked them both and they ran all day today with no lapses in email. Looks promising but the issue has gone for days sometimes before it re-appears.
I will keep you posted. Hopeful.

Mail, Gmail, POP/Imap

Am on leopard, with leopard mail. When I set up an account, it doesnt have the old option of POP or IMAP, it assumes. With GMAIL setup, it assumes POP, yet Gmail also supports Imap now.
With POP it works fine, I tried to manually change the config to imap and get error on new imap port 993.
So, basic question is how do I set up gmail to work properly with imap on leopard mail client? Either with direct imap setup or via manual to make it work.
Thx,

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This will properly set up your Drafts, Deleted Items, and Sent mail.
I was getting items in my Inbox just fine. I believe you have to set Root Folder Path to \[Gmail\] with the brackets around it. This option is available by right-clicking your account and select Properties. Scroll to the IMAP tab to find Root Folder Path.
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Mac Mail setup pop, imap....etc Server Settings

Is there a list or spreadsheet showing all the mail service providers server settings?? I can setup .Mac, AOL. but in the case of Yahoo,, Earthlink, Gmail, Verizon etc. I can never get them to work. I've been through the setup assistant and doesn't help. I really dig the Mail app. but I have other email accounts that I'd like to bring em' to Mail app.
I work in legit theater and we're 95% mac and less then half use the mail app. for this problem.
I can never find server settings on their sites. If there was a list somewhere it would be helpful. Its easy enough to setup mail manually.
Any help would be great.
Thanks,
Andrew

For Gmail, you first need to enable POP access on the Gmail server.
For Earthlink, follow these instructions.
The server settings are usually on the ISP's site, if you search their support for "POP", "SERVER", "EMAIL" etc, you should be able to find it. There are a lot of servers, especially with the major ISPs that may run a different server for every geographic region they serve.- As an example, those Earthlink instructions are dependent on your email address.
If you still have trouble finding the server settings for a particular ISP, give them a call or send someone at their support an email.

Mail server stops IMAP and POP services, SMTP won't work

Hello fellow Lion Server users,
I am trying hard to get my mail server productive. I want to fetch mails from my ISP's IMAP mail server and distribute it to all my devices via my own mail server. Also the mails shall be sent via ISPs SMTP.
After managing it being able to send and receive email in the way I want I realized that web server was down. Because I want to use the integrated web mail and Wiki server I had to fix that. After restoring to default values in httpd.conf and others I got that problem solved just to realize that I am not able any more to send and receive email. I would be grateful if you could help me out.
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I noticed that in the rejection notice though, that it was saying I was sending mail from my other main account, not my sbcglobal (ATT) account. I thought that was strange since I set up all my accounts to use the SBC (ATT) login info for ATT's SMTP Server. So obviously it is a problem in Mail. Mail is somehow confused and sending some wrong piece of info to the SMTP server. When I changed the sender from my other account to my SBCGLOBAL account, the mail went right out with no other problems.
So this isn't a solution for those of you who are struggling with only an ATT account, but I think it points to a possible problem within Mail. The answer might be to delete the accounts in Mail and set them back up again. It's looking like Apple might need to make a tweak to Mail to fix this if indeed this is the correct cause. Hope this helps someone.

Folders from Outlook not showing up in Mail Exchange or IMAP account

Hi,
I have a work account that I access from Microsoft Outlook 2003 using Exchange Server 2003. Also I can access it through a webmail application. In both cases, I see my folders. Now, when I set up an Exchange account in Leopard Mail (I also tried POP & IMAP), I can't see the folders in Mac. It sends, it receives, the Inbox is perfectly fine and updated... but no folders.
I'm not talking about Public folders, just a few I created in Windows. (actually this is not for me, it's for another person. I don't use Windows since 2004 hahaha)
Please help!

Well,
now I see all the folders. It didn't work in the IMAP account, but it worked when I set up an Exchange account. Apparently (not sure) the problem was that I was using the same server in "Incoming Mails Server" and in "Web Access Server". Checking in the Outlook set up I found two different settings, one for Exchange Server, the other for the Mail Server.
It works!

Converting my Mail from POP to IMAP

I am considering converting my ISP email account in Apple Mail from POP to IMAP. I had never given this much (any) thought until I recently got an iPhone and noticed that the email account that it setup for my ISP email (Charter) was an IMAP one. This has created a little bit of a conflict and has sometimes resulted in my inbox or get mail on my desktop Apple Mail being "locked up" for a while when I have just previously read the mail on my iPhone. (I get the message on my iMac that my ISP email is currently in use by another mail client). I had never run into this problem before and I've read that it does happen and happens more often when you have both POP and IMAP clients trying to access the same mail server.
One question is do I just go into the accounts settings on Mail on my iMac and change the incoming and outgoing servers to the appropriated IMAP ones? Or should I create a whole new account in Mail and use the IMAP settings from the start? What will happen to the folders and subfolders I already have in my Mail program? Going forward with IMAP, will I be able to download the emails from the server like I have always done and categorize them into folders using Mail?
This is all kind of confusing right now. Thanks.
Steve M.

You're welcome.
Is there any harm in leaving my desktop Mail as is (POP account) and just realizing that I may experience an occasional "lock out"?
There is no harm with doing so, but I'm not sure why you would want to.
How do I release the email account from my iPhone?
There is no option for this.
I already have my data settings on the iPhone to "fetch" every hour--not to push. But does this apply to the IMAP account on the iPhone?
Push access for received messages applies to an email account that supports Push access. The following email accounts support Push access for received messages:
MobileMe
Exchange
A Yahoo account created with the Yahoo account preset.
"If" I decided to convert my desktop Mail account to IMAP, could I not just "add" the new account? Would I necessarily have to delete the POP account?
You don't have to delete the POP account, but you would want to make it inactive or disable the account with the Mail app - Mail > Settings > Accounts > Select the Account > Under the Advanced tab for the account settings deselect Enable this account.
If you want access to the locally stored messages in the POP account's Inbox and Sent mailbox with the iPhone's Mail app, you want want to copy the messages to a server stored mailbox or mailboxes after creating the account as an IMAP account.
Can I setup the account as POP on my iPhone and just keep it all POP? Or is this dependent on Charter's policies?
This depends on Charter, but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to access the account as a POP account with the iPhone's Mail app as well, but this will not get rid of the "locked out" problem on occasion.
A POP account is from the early dark ages of email account access with an email client on a computer when the overwhelming majority at the time had access to a single computer only - before there were laptops and laptops became mainstream, and before there were handheld cell phones much less cell phones in the smart phone category. Until the iPhone, phones in the smart phone category were primarily targeted and sold to the business/enterprise market, not to the consumer market. The iPhone changed all that - just look at all the copies and different phones in the smart phone category that surfaced after the original
Although it is possible to access a POP account with more than one email client, a POP account is designed to be accessed with a single email client only and includes a number of limitations that are not a problem with an IMAP account, which is specifically designed to be accessed with more than one email client.
There is no "locked out" problem with an IMAP account. You can store the account's Drafts, Sent, Trash, and Junk mailboxes on the server with the Mail app on your Mac, and the account's Drafts, Sent, and Trash mailboxes on the server with the iPhone's Mail app. The account's Junk mailbox stored on the server with the Mail app on your Mac will be available automatically when accessing the account with the iPhone's Mail app along with all other server stored mailboxes created for the account with the Mail app on your Mac or via webmail access for the account using a browser. You can transfer received and sent messages to additional server stored mailboxes by category with the Mail app on your Mac and with the iPhone's Mail app which will be reflected automatically with each email client. All server stored mailboxes are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account. Sent a message with the iPhone's Mail app and the message will be available in the account's Sent mailbox with the Mail app on your Mac automatically and vice-versa. Read a new message with the Mail app on your Mac and the message will be marked as read automatically when accessing the account's Inbox mailbox with the Mail app on your Mac and vice-versa. Transfer a received message to a user created server stored mailbox with iPhone's Mail app and the message will be available in that server stored mailbox automatically when accessing the server stored mailbox with the Mail app on your Mac and vice-versa.
I keep the Mail app on my Mac launched and running 24/7 checking my IMAP account for new messages. I have the account's Junk mailbox stored on the server with the Mail app on my Mac, which is available automatically when accessing the account with the iPhone's Mail app and the same with my iPad 2. Any received message that is marked as junk and moved to the account's Junk mailbox stored on the server with the Mail app on my Mac is reflected automatically with the account's Inbox mailbox and Junk mailbox with the iPhone's Mail app and with the iPad's Mail app. The junk mail filter with the Mail app on my Mac is serving as the junk mail filter for the account with my iPhone and iPad as well - remotely since all server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server with each email client used to access the account.
NONE of this is available with a POP account.
If you have the option to access your email account as an IMAP account and you access the account with an email client on more than one computer or device, to me it is a no-brainer which way to go - IMAP, which is specially designed for this.

Mail not working on older Macs using POP

Something happened to the POP support under Mail in the last few days. FWIW, Apple says they don’t support POP. However I have been using this to get my .mac mail up until the last 3 or 4 days.
Now, if you are using a pre Snow Leopard machine (my old G4) you don’t have iCloud. In this case setting up a new IMAP account is the way to now get mail.
Apple support was sympathetic but couldn’t help.
Steps that worked for me. (Obviously, I have an iCloud account already.)
1- open Mail preferences.
2- click “+” to make a new account
3- put in name for the account, mac address and password.
4- UNCHECK the set up account automatically.
5- click Continue
6- change type to IMAP
7- use any description
8- mail server is imap.mail.me.com
9- add user name (NAME) and password
10- on the next pane make sure outgoing server is smtp.mac.com:NAME
11- at this point should have account pretty much created.
12- move all your old messages to this account and delete the old .mac account.
13- check in the preferences/accounts/advanced that “enable this account”, “include…” , “compact…” are all checked.
14- If you want to keep copies on your computer (as you have been doing under POP) select the “all messages and their attachments.”
15- IMAP path = empty
16- Port = 993, use SSL , is checked
17- Authentication = “password”
18- Use IDLE is checked
Worked for me on a G4 running Leopard

Hi Roger,
For better or worse...and it is mostly worse, lately...I run a variety of systems on a variety of machines. It used to be .mac worked to tie all the machines together, but that has all but gone away. And I am sympathetic to Apple about not trying to support my semi-ancient hardware with their newer technologies, but it makes the transition harder when features just stop working. I can plan for June when various MobileMe features go away, and I was aware that Leopard wouldn't support Classic and Lion wouldn't support Rosetta. I wasn't counting on .mac's POP support going away, yesterday.
Unfortunately, Mail.app is not the venerable email client I have been using all these years. I tried setting Mail.app up yesterday on a machine running Tiger and was unsuccessful. I think with both Marhk and your posts I should be able to get it running, now.
Thanks!
-Tom
iMac G5, Mac OS 10.4.11
G4 933, Mac OS 10.5.x
iMac, Mac OS 10.7.x

TS3899 How do you change ios 8 mail default from imap to pop?

I scan e-mails on the road with my iPhone but only respond to emergent ones. I work all non-emergent e-mail at home on my PC. With iOS 8 software, my iPhone e-mail defaults to IMAP, which causes any e-mails read/opened on my phone to be automatically deleted from my PC's incoming mail. That may be fine for some, but not for me... and I'm guessing a lot of other folks who have the same parallel mail arrangement.
My work-around is to archive all e-mails read, which I want to keep, and then resend them to myself when I get home. What a bother. With a pop account, all devices receive, send, and delete independently of each other. That allows me to scan and delete unnecessary e-mails on the iPhone and work those I want to keep when I return home. Yes, I have to delete unwanted e-mails again, but that is not a big deal.
The iOS software update needs to allow a pop, pop3, or IMAP incoming server option. If it does, I'm unable to figure it out.

The response that suggests putting in a dummy e-mail works perfectly with the new iOS 8 software. Thanks for the help. I now have my phone configured back to a pop vice IMAP.
Incidentally, this all started when I noticed that a lot of my iPhone memory was being used to store some 500+ phantom e-mails that had already been deleted. An iPhone forum string indicated that I needed to delete my email account and then reinstall it. I did so and the phantom emails disappeared... but then my account locked into the IMAP format.
Thank you again for the help.
javelin123, aka Mike

Using POP/IMAP Mail inside company firewall

The IT at my work place blocks all ports except 80 and 443.
Can I use POP/IMAP accounts over HTTP or HTTPS?

I take it that you want to get personal email while at work which may or may not be okay with your company policy - but that's for you to decide.
A way around it.
I use Oceanic Time Warner RoadRunner as an ISP and it has an option that allows me to access and send email when I am on the road called Web Mail that is accessed from my browser home page (RoadRunner). Mail won't allow you to access your normal mail except for viewing not sending messages when you're not in your local area, so Web Mail takes the place of using Mail. I access it through http.
Your email provider should have something similar with a web address as long as you can access it through your computer at work.

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