Mapping Mail to the IMAP Server's sent mail folder.

In Mail, how do I tell my IMAP account what folder to store sent mail in on the IMAP server?
NOTE! I am not asking how to make it store on the server. I know if you go to a mail boxes preferences you can check a box that says "Store sent messages on server." I assure you that box is checked.
On my windows box I use Thunderbird, and with Thunderbird I have to manually tell it I want to store all of my mail in the subscribed folder entitled "sent-mail." This works fine. I can not figure out how to do this with Mail. I am assuming this is why my sent mail is not getting stored on the server.
Cheers,
ccerinojr

Click on the Sent folder, then click Mailbox in the Menubar, place cursor on Use This Mailbox For, and choose Sent, which you should find in black type.
Keep us posted.
Ernie

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Thanks
GIRI

Try this -> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38632?viewlocale=en_US

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I’m still not sure what the problem is.
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1. Copy the ~/Library/Mail/IMAP-username@mailserver account folder from the backup to the Desktop.
2. Change the .imapmbox suffix of the folders within the account folder on the Desktop to .mbox.
3. In Mail, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X as the data format, and follow the instructions to import the copy of the account folder that’s on the Desktop.

HT1277 I can send & receive email from my ipad but for some reason I can no longer do this from my i mac.It keeps telling me that the password is not valid with the imap server.I keep entering the password but it won't accept it.

I can send & receive email from my ipad but for some reason I can no longer do this from my i mac.It keeps telling me that the password is not valid with the imap server.I keep entering the password but it won't accept it.

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Based on what little I see posted, it looks like BT uses both btinternet and btyahoo, but I'm not exactly clear on how they have their stuff set up, and their web set gets helpful and tries to help configure my mail — I don't immediately see a single web page with the mail server set-up details. The BT email client set-up starts here.

After switch to new Imap server, todos in Mail no longer work

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I've seen a couple other posts on this
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9872768&#9872768
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9855065&#9855065
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The IMAP server ... rejected the password for user ...

When I went to bed last night, Apple Mail (Lion, MacBook Pro) worked fine on my home IMAP server, as they have done for some time.
This morning, I cannot log in and I now get the following error message:
The IMAP server “...” rejected the password for user “...”.
The password is definitely correct. I have typed in the password repeatedly (although it was already correct) to no avail - I just get the same error message again.
Since then, I have tried:
my Linux laptop using Thunderbird
my Xoom (running Android ICS) and K9
my SGS2 (running Honeycomb) and K9
my iPad 2 using IOS Mail
Roundcube (webmail client) on the MacBook Pro itself (so no connectivity issues)
and all still work perfectly. There have been no changes to my mail server (which is Dovecot running on Debian Squeeze, which has been running flawlessly for years) and none to my MacBook Pro (unless they were silent).
I have tried deleting all the relevant items from my keychain, but that has made no difference either.
Any ideas because I'm stumped?

Since I posted this, there has been more, but slightly different, weirdness.
In the middle of a session yesterday, Apple Mail started to do something different. When I typed in the password, it briefly worked (downloading one or two messages) and then the error dialogue box popped up again so clearly the password was always correct.
A short while later, it accepted the password and stopped complaining until ten minutes ago. This time I only had to type in the password once and it is working at the moment but who knows how long for?

HT2500 how do i get my mail from the pop server to my inbox

Can someone please help me ! I'm sure I did something by accident and don't know how to fix it. My problem is i don't see any emails in my inbox, however my account info says there is mail on the pop server. how do i get the mail from the pop server to my inbox?
thank you for helping

First try rebuilding your Inbox.
Select the Inbox.
Under Mailbox in the Menu bar select Rebuild (last option in list)
Note: If you delete a POP account in Mail, it will delete any messages in the Inbox. It does not delete your custom folders or your sent messages.
If the messages have been deleted and are no longer on the server, you can restore from Time Machine.
Let us know if this helps.

Disabling the IMAP server

How do I disable the IMAP server?
<P>
If you want to use only the POP server, you can disable the
IMAP server by moving the executable from
$(ServerRoot)/bin/mail/server/network into
$(ServerRoot)/bin/mail/server/disabled.
<P>
If you decide to run the IMAP server later, you can just move
it back. The disabled directory does not exist by default on
and may need to be created.

You can access an Exchange account as an IMAP account with the iPhone's mail client if IMAP account access is enabled for your Exchange account at the Exchange server.
You can also access an Exchange account via ActiveSync with the iPhone's mail client if ActiveSync is enabled for your Exchange account at the Exchange server. This provides Push access for the email account, and provides for over the air syncing for contact info and calendar events with the Exchange server.

Can access mail on home IMAP server from work, but not at home

At home I have an Xserve running Snow Leopard Server with IMAP service enabled. This runs all my personal email. Even Gmail and iCloud accounts have their incoming mail forwarded to that server, because I prefer to house my own data. I have dynamic DNS with an MX record. The Xserve also runs DNS and resolves "imap.myip.net" to the internal IP address of the Xserve, and, when I am and work, "imap.myip.net," through the dynamic DNS service, resolves to the outside IP address I have through my ISP. My router forwards external requests on Port 993 to the Xserve internally.
Until recently, I could move my MacBook Pro between home and work and access my email without problems in either place. It appears that since the 10.8.2 update, I can no longer access my email from home, where I am on the same subnet as my IMAP server. When at home, Mail accesses external email servers (Gmail and my work account) without problems. For the accounts on my home IMAP server, the Mail Connection Doctor states that the IMAP server could not be contacted.
However, I can clearly ping it from my MacBook Pro, which means that it is reachable and that my internal DNS is working.
I just fired up my work VPN, and, sure enough, messages that Mail hadn't been able to collect are trondling into my Inbox. In other words, when making Mail access my mail server through the Internet there is no problem.
Even before the Mountain Lion update I found that I had to relaunch Mail when I returned home from work, or Mail couldn't connect to the mail server. It seemed like Mail cached the resolved IP address it had gotten at work, which is the external IP address of my home network, and failed to re-resolved the address of the IMAP server once I woke up the computer, after getting back home. Quitting Mail and relaunching it did resolve that, but it was annoying.
I have never worked with Little Snitch, but it might provide some answers as to what Mail is attempting to do, when it is failing to access the server. Do any of you agree or recognize this issue and have a solution?

It looks like a simple reboot fixed the problem.
Mac OS X is, by and large, so stable that I don't even consider rebooting as a troubleshooting step. There have been a number of application glitch that required a quit and re-launch to fix them, but that didn't do the trick with Mail. Very possibly reconfiguring everything from scratch had something to do with the fix, but in a way that required it to be combined with a reboot.

Connection to the imap server failed on WiFi

Hi -
Has anyone encountered this problem? All of a sudden, I am getting the following error message on my iPhone when I try to check my email (and am connected to my WiFi network): "Connection to the imap server failed." If I turn off WiFi, the connection works fine (using 3G). All settings are correct, and this has worked fine for almost a year before the problem started.
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Rob

If you truly tried everything there is no hope of ever making it work. But perhaps you missed something, so here are a few things (and if you've tried them...)
Reboot the phone by holding the HOME and SLEEP buttons at the same time until an Apple logo appears
Go to Settings/Mail,contacts,calendars, tap on a mail account. Make sure there's an entry for SMTP or Outgoing mail server (You may need to tap on Account to see the entry)
Tap on SMTP and make sure you have entered your email name and password (even if it says "optional")
If there's more than one server listed make sure the appropriate one for that account is the primary
If all of the above is correct delete the account, reboot the phone, and add the account back

I just reset my apple ID password and now all the imap folders in Apple Mail are greyed out. I can see the contents, but I don't get whay the folders are all greyed out. Can anyone help?

I just reset my apple ID password and now all the imap folders in Apple Mail are greyed out. I can see the contents, but I don't get whay the folders are all greyed out. Can anyone help? Sorry for the long title on this message...

Assuming this is an iCloud mail account, sign out of iCloud in its preference pane, then sign back in with the new password.

Where can I find the file where the static mapping allocations of the DHCP server are stored?

In our company we are using DHCP to assign static ip addresses to our clients.
Now we are forced to change the ip address range. To prevent changing each allocation
of mac-address to ip-address manually with the admin tool i would like to change the allocation
in the file where the allocations are saved. The reason ist that i just have to use copy & paste for all
the allocations.
So how is the file named and where can I find the file where
the static mapping allocations of the DHCP server are stored? Is it just an ASCII file?
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From man bootpd:
BOOTP/DHCP STATIC BINDINGS
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Is it possible to recover the contents of a "Sent Mail" folder that was accidentally deleted? We have complete Time Capsule backups.

We lost the contents of a "Sent Mail" folder when our ISP asked us to delete and re-create the account in an attempt to solve a connection problem.
Is there any way to re-create these messages from stuff in the Library or from a Time Capsule backup?
Thank you.

Yes.
Open the Sent folder in Mail.
Go to the menu bar and ask to Enter Time Machine.
Go back in time until you find the messages you want.
Restore them.
Of course I am assuming your backup disk is connected, or you have adequate local snapshots.
All the gory details here:
Restore items backed up with Time Machine
charlie

Cannot edit the smtp server list in Mail (Yosemite)

I am trying to edit the smtp server list in Mail. I am running Yosemite on my MacBook Pro and always get this message.
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There are no alert icons displayed!!! And I can not delete a server.
I need to change some smtp-settings and cannot edit anything.
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~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Accounts.plist
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TS1627 Please Help. I received 4 emails from 1 person with the same message heading. The emails were automatically grouped by Mail. I replied to the latest mail in the conversation. Once sent the other messages in the conversation disappeared. I NEED THEM

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Thanks in advance for any help.
Kash.

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Mapping Mail to the IMAP Server's sent mail folder.

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