POP to IMAP

Trying to switch my email account on 3 devices (IMAC, IPhone, IPad) fro POP to IMAP so when I delete mail from one device, it deletes it from all 3. I was told to create an IMAP acct first om the mac, but the server told me not to use SSL or SPA but to use SMTP Authentication. It's automatically setting it to SSL HELP!!

Imap means email is on the server of your email provider and you get a local copy on your device. then all activity like moving to folders and deleting is synchronized to the server and your other devices.
You need to find out the imap settings for you email account. Typically on a MAC you can setup as other email and select imap. It might then automatically discover the settings.
On iOS devices you might have to manually fill in incoming and outgoing server and ports, authentication etc.
Do a google search on imap iOS setup for you email provider.

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POP and IMAP side by side in Mail

Hi, is it ok to run POP and IMAP accounts side by side in Mail? I’m using POP but I want to switch to IMAP and set up a first IMAP account...

Yes, POP with one domain and two or three IMAP accounts with two other domains. Just wanted to know if POP and IMAP together is stable or if there are any recommendations when running them alongside each other.

Need to stop the pop and Imap receive connectors to be able to start the pop and Imap services in Service Manager

Hello All,
I am hoping that someone else has run across this issue (may have started after CU5 was installed).
Upon every reboot I have found that the "Microsoft Exchange IMAP4" and "Microsoft Exchange POP3" services in the service manager will not start... basic reason in the event viewer is that the ports are already in use.
If I go into the ECP and disable my POP and Imap receive connectors I am able to then start the services.
After the services are started I can then go back to ECP and enable the receive connectors again and everything is fine .
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Thanks in advance ;)
Chris

Hello Winnie,
I bounced the Transport service tonight (adjusting spam filter levels)... so I was able to issue a stop and re-start of the IMAP4 and POP3 services in the service manager.
I stopped both the IMAP4 and POP3 services in service manager.
I issued the start of the services with PowerShell as requested:
PS C:\Users\administrator.XXXXXXXX> Start-service MSExchangePOP3
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Microsoft Exchange POP3 (MSExchangePOP3)' to start...
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Microsoft Exchange POP3 (MSExchangePOP3)' to start...
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Microsoft Exchange POP3 (MSExchangePOP3)' to start...
Start-service : Failed to start service 'Microsoft Exchange POP3 (MSExchangePOP3)'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-service MSExchangePOP3
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service],
   ServiceCommandException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StartServiceFailed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand
Then I first stopped the receive connector in ECP and issued the command:
PS C:\Users\administrator.XXXXXXXX> Start-service MSExchangePOP3
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Microsoft Exchange POP3 (MSExchangePOP3)' to start...
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Microsoft Exchange POP3 (MSExchangePOP3
With the receive connector disabled in ECP it was successfully started.... then I enabled the receive connector in ECP and all is fine now
repeated the same with IMAP4
to recap....
If I stop the IMAP4 and/or POP3 service in service manager, I must first disable the IMAP and/or POP receive connector in the ECP, then start the service in service manage.. and then finally go into ECP and enable the receive connector.
Thanks,
Chris
Chris

Why is "POP or IMAP" grayed out in setting up a new email account in Outlook 2013?

Can anyone share with me how to make it avail? Thanks.

Hi,
Do you mean the "POP or IMAP" bullet is grayed out?
If this is the case, please open your registry editor and check if the following registry values exist and the value data is set to 1:
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Options
Name: DisableIMAP
Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Options
Name: DisablePOP3
If this is the case, change the value data of the two values to 0 and then test the issue again.
Please let me know the result.
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POP and IMAP aren't starting?

I used the "Configure Mail Service" option, setup both POP and IMAP access for a couple of my users in the Workgroup Manager, and the Mail Service status is "Running" (also running are Outgoing/Incoming SMTP, Junk Mail Filtering, and Virus Scanning), but POP and IMAP always show as "Stopped" in Server Admin. I don't know if this matters, but when I go to Maintenance/Database it shows "Database location" to be "Not available."
Also, Maintenance/Accounts shows "Number of accounts" as 0, even though I have two users in Workgroup Manager setup for both POP and IMAP?
Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Regarding logs...
IMAP and POP are empty.
Mail Access shows "empty option value on line 10 of configuration file" page after page, nothing else.
The last line of the SMTP log shows "daemon started -- version 2.4.3, configuration /etc/postfix."
Is there somewhere else I should also look for troubleshooting information?
Thanks!

Lost mail after POP to IMAP convertion

Help, When I converted from POP to IMAP all my former mails dissapeard. Where can I find them? My POP account is gone in the list.

Hello:
I do not know what you did when you "converted."
You should know that most POP mail applications download the mail to your device and then delete it from the server.
Hopefully you have a backup of your system before you did whatever you did.
Barry

Mail 3.2, Gmail and iPhone POP and IMAP Problems

This is a Mail problem but I am pretty sure it has something to do with the iphone as well....
Here's the deal:
Up until a week ago I used this setup:
1. My gmail account has had pop and imap enabled for all mail and it kept the email on the server
2. My mail client on my MBP C2duo on Leopard 10.5.2 was setup to retrieve email from gmail using pop
3. My 1.1.1 iPhone was setup to retrieve email from gmail using pop as well
4. Gmail account was being also synchronised between MBP and iphone through the appropriate tab in itunes.
RESULT: mail would pop to both clients as new mail and I would have to mark it as read in each client. I like that cause there are certain messages I read on my MBP and some others on my iphone.
About a week ago I upgraded my iphone to 1.1.3 and that's when the problems started:
a) It appears that the iphone is now setup to gmail's IMAP by default. So I delete the account and create one manually to work as pop
1. So now I have an iphone setup to retrieve with pop.
2. My MAil client on the MBP is still set to pop
3. Gmail settings remain untouched
PROBLEM: Everything is setup as pop but acts as IMAP ?!!?!
Whichever client gets an email message first that message will not appear on the other client.
Basically if my iphone catches an emai while my MBP is asleep i'll never get it in my inbox on the MBP and vice versa
Please help me out... It's the first time an Apple product makes me feel like a good ol windows user again
FAILED SOLUTIONS:
1. I tried deleting the iphone account and creating it from scratch making sure it's setup correctly
2. I tried disabling IMAP from gmail's settings
3. I tried disabling and re-enabling pop from gmail's settings
4. I tried using gmail's recent mode that forces a download of all recent (30 days) mail
5. I have repaired permissions, rebooted etc etc
Nothing changed
I have now deleted the gmail account from the MBP, re-created it and await while it re-downloads al 6000 messages before I try re-creating the account on the iphone but sth tells me it wont change anything.
Sorry for the extreme length of this post. Any help would be appreciated

But I'm not using IMAP. I never used IMAP and I do not want to use IMAP. The reason being that I know all about the problems you speak of.
I just can't get POP working as it did before the 1.1.3 update. It's really frustrating

10.5.2 Mail cannot connect to intranet Linux mail Server. POP or IMAP

Does anyone have any suggestion ? Haven't been able to get MAIL to connect (either POP or IMAP) to the intranet email Server. If I Telnet the server on 192.168.1.1 110 or 192.168.1.1 143 I get instant connection, MAIL on the other hand just keeps on spinning. Connection Doctor has not helped either, after a few minutes I get red lights. Checked and rechecked all settings, deleted account and recreated account to no avail. Tried running Thunderbird with same settings and everything works fine ! The Linux email server is running Fedora 7 / Cyrus IMAP server. Runs both protocols (IMAP on port 143 and POP on port 110).

this post maybe fit your needs... they solved a similar problem
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007090423071517
hope this helps you!

Problems with email after switching from POP to IMAP

I recently switched from POP to IMAP settings on my MacBook Pro (OS X Yosemite 10.10.2). My email seems to time out and then my emails seem to disappear. Then I have to logout and re-launch every few minutes to keep seeing my emails. Everything seems to be working fine for my iPhone and it's IMAP settings. Any ideas anyone?

William Kucharski wrote:
V.K. wrote:
when an IMAP account is set to use IDLE (a desktop equivalent of push) the emails are pushed by the IMAP server to Mail as soon as they are received. when this happens no new mail sound is played.
That is incorrect.
well, it always worked this way for me on all my imap accounts (I have 4).
and I've seen lots and lots of posts describing the same behavior. I don't know what's going on in your case.
I have two email accounts, both use IMAP IDLE, and I get the new mail sound each and every time a new mail message is delivered to either.
So there's some other factor at work here.

Both Pop AND IMAP Gmail accounts in Mail?

OK this is bugging me. Suddenly I noticed several email duplicates from my only Gmail account, that I check on my Mac in Mail. When checking accounts in Preferences, I see now TWO Gmail accounts enabled, one POP, another IMAP. I can't remember which one is the older one that I've been using for years. I guess it's the IMAP account, since I've been keeping copies of my emails in my Mac and my Gmail "all mail" folder online.
I think it happened when Safari 5.1 asked to syncronize and/or use "x" automatically with iChat, Mail, Calendar, etc., and added the POP. My question is, which one of those accounts is safe to delete or disable in Mail? Can it be done just like that? In the Gmail settings I see both POP and IMAP are enabled. Should I just disable POP and voilá?
Thanks.
rolando

As you may have learnt by now POP downloads the mail to your computer and depending on your settings may also delete from server. So the mail on your computer is the only copy you have. IMAP accounts can be deleted and added later but POP are not that simple.
I suggest turn off POP, use IMAP, continue using IMAP for a while and then delete POP.
There are excellent guides in the discussions here, just search for 'switching from POP to IMAP'

Moving user from POP to IMAP

Hello
I'm switching all of my mail users from POP to IMAP. In most cases, I set up their IMAP setting in there mail client. Then I drag there POP messages (stored on their local machines) to the IMAP account. That has worked for most users. I have three users with a lot of local mail messages - about 10 gb. When I try to drag the mail folder over in Apple Mail, it starts to copy them. After a while, it just stops. The messages never get over to the IMAP server. (Their names are on the door, so I can't tell them to trim down their messages.)
My next thought was to convert the messages from Mail.app, copy them into the mailstore on the IMAP server, then reconstruct the mailbox. I have an app, Emailchemy, that converts Mail.app to following formats:
RFC-2822 mailboxes ("mbox" format or "UNIX-style")
Folders of individual RFC-2822 email files (.txt or .eml files)
Comma-separated value files (.csv files)
Maildir (qmail)
Maildir++ (Courier IMAP)
In a test account, I'v tried converting a single message to RFC-2822 format. After I reconstruct the mailbox, I see the header info, but the body of the message is blank.
Is there something that I am missing? Is there a better way to move those messages.
Thanks,
Henry
MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz 1 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I've switched many users from Eudora - pop and Mail - pop to imap.
it's very easy. - just change the client setting.
we chose Thunderbird because it worked the same on both PC and MAC, and came with just enough options to make everyone happy.
if all the users are set to either pop/imap combo then only the clients have to make any significant changes.
having the pop option is great if you want your users to flush their mailbox and keep a local copy while you do updates.
I frown upon alternate imap boxes other than defaults. if the user needs more mailboxes they can create them on their local machine. That way we don't have to deal with long reconstructs for an individual user. -lots of small files in those maildirs.

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.

Converting from POP to IMAP on Mail

I have had an ISP email account for a long time with Charter and have used it as a POP account with Apple Mail. It's worked fine for me. I've developed the habit of saving lots of old email in Mail in the Mailboxes (some kept in my Inbox and Sent box) and most catalogged into folders I've created in the On my Mac area.
I've recently gotten an iPhone and the Charter email setup on it results in an IMAP account. I've run into the "locked" inbox problem when I've recently accessed my mail with my iPhone and then try to access my mail on my iMac using Mail. I understand that it is probably better not to mix protocols and that I should use all POP or all IMAP. I've recently found out that Charter offers the IMAP protocol for desktop email access. They probably have for a long time but I just had no reason to look into it.
Anyway, I've pretty much decided to save my current Inbox and Sent box into On My Mac folders, then delete my Charter POP accont in Mail and create a new Charter IMAP account in Mail and then continue to use my Charter IMAP account on my iPhone. Does this sound reasonable?
I have a question about saving email from the IMAP account on my iMac as I have been doing with my POP acount. I know that the IMAP email will remain on the Charter server (up to some storage limit) but I want to continue to save and categorize at least some of my most important email in folders in Mail. Does the On My Mac concept still apply when using an IMAP account as opposed to a POP account? Will Mail basically look the same? What if anything about the way Mail looks to me will be different when using the IMAP protocol?
I suppose my use of web based Yahoo mail has exposed me to many of the differences between POP and IMAP. I believe that my Yahoo account is most similar to IMAP--correct?
I'm learning a lot more than I knew before about this email protocol business. I think I "almost" have it figured out.
Thanks,
Steve M.

Thanks Jeffrey. I thought I had about decided to convert desktop and iPhone to IMAP for Charter account but now I'm not too sure. OK, this is kind of a family "community" email account right now my wife is accessing it from a Macbook Pro and I'm accessing it from an iMac and we're both using Apple Mail with the account setup as a POP. We have Mail set to leave messages on the server for something like a week or maybe the next longest setting. I just want to be able to have a look at the email messages on my iPhone and maybe reply to one occasionally. I'm thinking now that trying to setup the account as POP on the iPhone may be the way to go. We alway end up saving and filing away lots of email messages on the iMac and the laptop. I know with Yahoo and Gmail there is a practically unlimited amount of online storage but with Charter I think there is a 1 GB cap. I am beginning to fear that with IMAP we may run up against that cap.
Thanks,
Steve M.

I am wanting to add my icloud email account to Windows Live email...during the process i's being asked server type (POP or IMAP) and server address incoming and outgoing the port boxes already have a nbr. in them, 25 (Outgoing) and 143 (Incoming).

I am wanting to add my icloud email account to "Windows Live"....During the setup process I'm being asked for server type (POP or IMAP) and server address (Incoming and Outgoing) Where can I find this information?...The port boxes already have a number in them - 25 (outgoing) and 143 (incoming)..do I leave these the same??...also do I check the box "Requires a secure connection (SSL) for both incoming and outgoing???

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Email Proxy server for POP -to- IMAP bridge

Hi Guys
I have an email client which can fetch mails from an IMAP server, POP is not supported by the client.
[I cant change my email client :-)). so no suggestions on that]
My problem is that i need to fetch Yahoo Mails into my email client And Yahoo supports only POP, no IMAP.
My action of plan is to setup a email proxy server in-between, like YPOPs.
[YPOPs fetches mails from yahoo on POP but doest not expose any IMAP interface].
My email proxy server will fetch mails from Yahoo Mail on POP and will expose an IMAP interface to my email client application.
My email client can connect to this email proxy server and fetch mails on IMAP.
I wanted to ask u guys, abt ur ideas. If any of u faced any similar problem?
And i want to know if Java Mailing API can help in this?
Please guys do share ur views at least. If im able to devise a working solution, definitely i'll share.
Thanks alot

Hi bshannon
No i havnt paid for Yahoo Plus. I know Yahoo doesnt give service to free accounts.
Yahoo server to be configured for Yahoo plus is - mail.plus.pop.yahoo.com
But using YPOPs or Zimbra i am able to even access my free accounts. To me It implies - that yahoo has kept some mail server open for free accounts too.
I tried mail.pop.yahoo.com - it doesnt works.
Actually i tried the fetchmail on linux. There the problem is:
1) That i have millions of yahoo accounts. In fetchmail i need to configure account details in .fetchmailconf and
moreover i dont know how much space i'll need on my server to dump the mails of millions of users.
2) In future my users might need to reply to the mails too, i.e. reversing the whole flow. fetchmail can only fetch mails. it cant send mails.
I dont know UW IMAP.. i'll check. Thx anyway :-)

MS OutlookExpress: Can't connect to POP or IMAP

Hi,
I successfully configured Convergence and login with specified user with full functionality (send, receive).
Problem is that I can't connect to mail server using MS OutlookExpress (POP or IMAP).
Answers are:
POP3: Unable to logon to the server using Secure Password Authentication. Account: 'mail.observer.rs', Server: 'mail.observer.rs', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '.', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC18
IMAP: Not authorized to log in as specified user
Configuration:
Account: mail.observer.rs (1)
Server: mail.observer.rs
User name: mihailo.milosavljevic
Protocol: IMAP
Port: 143
Secure(SSL): 0
Code: 800cccd1
Telnet tests on these ports are successful also.
I think that problem might by on storing passwords (PLAIN or crypt.) but I can't resolve it.
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Mihailo.B.Milosavljevic wrote:
There is a bug in MERCURY package where ACL filter use plural names of services pops, imaps instead of pop and imap.The use of pops/imaps is entirely valid. The mailallowedserviceaccess: attribute is documented here:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2657/6n4ub3hm2?a=view
These are the service names for IMAPS port (993) and POPS port (995). The back-end store processes don't recognise these service names however which an make using the mercury package -- well "tricky".
Regards,
Shane.

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