Storing sent email on mac and displaying "to" field

I am trying to transfer my sent email from two accounts to my home computer and store them there, displayed by "to" field like sent folders usually are. Yet when I transfer them to my mac, apple mail only seems able to display them by "from" field.

Kappy is correct that you can't do what you want with POP3 mail. However a workaround I'm thinking about is to use another email account to pull the mail from your Comcast account. Then configure your devices to check that new mail account, which will be IMAP, of course. (I do something similar with my Roadrunner mail.) If you want to, you can leave the Mail settings to still send mail through Comcast's SMTP servers (or whatever you have it set to.) It will just receive mail on the new IMAP server.
The only free email account that I know of offhand that will pull mail and allow for external access is Hotmail. (Yahoo mail will pull POP mail, but you can't access it externally without paying extra. Gmail doesn't seem to have the ability to pull mail from other accounts. Correct me if I'm wrong.) The catch I'm having with Hotmail is that it seems to take a while before everything is synced again. It's likely due to the way my Windows Mobile phone is configured, but it does seem to work if I'm patient.
Technically, Hotmail is not IMAP, but OSX Mail does work with Hotmail so it may be sufficient for you. At the very least it's free so you can try it and not waste $$$ if it doesn't work for you.

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When receiving email, Thunderbird freezes and displays "Not Responding" in screen header. Adds popstate folder to account.

I'm running Thunderbird 31.6.0 on Windows 8.1 with BitDefender 2013.
PROBLEM:
When getting email, Thunderbird freezes and displays "Not Responding" in screen header.
When TB is closed then reopened, a popstate folder (popstate-1.dat) is added to account. A new popstate folder appears with each crash/freeze, and as long as they are not deleted, they pile up with unique numbers (popstate-1.dat, popstate-2.dat, etc.).
(see attached screenshot)
NOTE: I've included troubleshooting details below for all the fixes I tried, thinking it might be helpful to anyone who has a similar problem and is thinking about going down those paths. Ultimately, it seems that FIX ATTEMPT 5 is the winner.
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FIX ATTEMPT 1:
Following the suggestion in this archived mozilla support post: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1026288, I restarted Thunderbird in Safe Mode (Help > Restart with Add-Ons disabled...), checking the "Disable all add-ons" and "Reset toolbars and controls" and clicking "Make Changes and Restart" button.
In Add-Ons Manager, BitDefender Toolbar now appears to be disabled.
(see attached screenshot)
But the problem persists.
FIX ATTEMPT 2:
Following the suggestion in this archived mozilla support post: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1016811, I clicked Help > Troubleshooting Information > Show Folder button. This opens a File Explorer window for 3I58b9dq.default (this is the "profile" folder) which contains panacea.dat and folderTree.json files.
I changed file names to panacea-changed.dat and folderTree-changed.json (rather than deleting them, in case I need to restore them), and I reopened Thunderbird.
This did not solve the problem -- and, furthermore, the profile folder seems to have automatically generated new panacea.dat and folderTree.json files to replace those for which I changed the filenames.
FIX ATTEMPT 3:
Following the suggestion in this mozilla support post: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1044774, I restarted Windows 8.1 in safe mode with networking enabled (using these instructions: http://www.howtogeek.com/107511/how-to-boot-into-safe-mode-on-windows-8-the-easy-way/.)
TB does not crash when Windows runs in safe mode, but the aspect ratio of my display is distorted; everything's really big and stretched horizontally, and my two displays are mirrored rather than extended. Running Windows perpetually in safe mode is not the ideal fix.
QUESTION 1: I understand that troubleshooting is supposedly done best in safe mode — What might I do in safe mode to diagnose the Thunderbird problem?
FIX ATTEMPT 4:
This article https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Testing:Antivirus_Related_Performance_Issues#Symptoms, suggests that problems with Thunderbird associated with BitDefender can be solved by uninstalling and re-installing BitDefender.
Not really comfortable uninstalling and re-installing, I disabled Bitdefender (Settings button > Antivirus button > Shield tab > On-Access Scanning toggle Off) to see if that would work. It did not fix the problem.
QUESTION 2: Would uninstalling BitDefender be any different than disabling it?
FIX ATTEMPT 5:
Create a Bitdefender Exclusion for the Thunderbird folder:
Settings button > Antivirus button > Exclusions tab > Excluded files and folders link > Add button > navigate to Thunderbird folder (c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\thunderbird) > Both radio button > Add button > OK button
THIS FIX DID THE TRICK! YAY!

FIX ATTEMPT #5 above did the trick, and now I see that it was the chosen solution for a similar post of the same problem at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1044774

When i attach a portable pdf to an email, it opens and displays contents. I want the file to remain closed - help. thanks

When I attempt to attach a portable pdf to an email, it automatically opens and displays in the email. I want the file to be attached not opened. I am new to MAC and do not understand this portable pdf concept. Lease help. all I want is a file to show on the email message which can be opened by the person receiving the email.

Mail shows any single-page PDF (as well as many other document types) as a preview in an email message rather than the icon, but it is actually being attached as a normal email attachment. Unless the recipient also has Mac OS X Mail, they'll just see the PDF as an attachment unless their mail application also shows PDFs in line.
There is a third-party product which can suppress this display so that all attachments including single-page documents just show in Mail as an icon. If that's of interest, let me know and I'll post the URL to the product. But it doesn't affect how the document is attached and the email sent, only how it displays on your system.
Regards.

Cannot send/reply email on Mac and iPhone

SOMETIMES I cannot send or reply emails on my Mac, not all the time though. Went to Apple Store where a Genius helped me reset my mail app but turning it off and back on again, it worked there and then but when I got home, I'm still getting the below same message when I try to send or reply sometimes:
"Connections to the server "p08-smtp.mail.me.com" on the default ports times out.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list below or click Try Layer to leave the message in your Outbox until if can be sent."
This happens on my iPhone as well. Sometimes when I reply to someone's email it'd just sit in the Outbox for more then a day despite numerous attempts to resend. In the end I could only delete it from Outbox and send a new one again. I tried to find answers online without luck, can someone please help?
Note that if I send/reply on iCloud website, everything works perfectly!
Many thanks!

Hi Chi Chi Cheng,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
We have a few articles than can help troubleshoot issues sending mail on both Mac and iOS.
You may find these links helpful:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
iOS: Unable to send or receive email
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3899
iCloud: Troubleshooting iCloud Mail
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4002
Best,
Jeremy

How can I play a dvd on my Mac and display it through Apple TV

I want to use my DVD drive on my mac to play back movies through my apple tv2. I notice that on my iPad, iPhone, iTunes on my computer all have the AirPlay option to display the video on my TV through Apple TV. I do not want to burn my DVD onto my Mac and play through iTunes becasue its a hassle.

mende1 wrote:
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
One thing you can do is to play the DVD in your Mac using DVD Player instead of iTunes, and then, turn on AirPlay Mirroring to stream your computer's display to your Apple TV > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5404
If your Mac isn't compatible with AirPlay Mirroring, use a third-party app like AirParrot > http://www.airparrot.com This is the only option, because the Apple TV isn't compatible with discs
Logical but it won't work - DVD player output will be a grey checkerboard pattern.
Apple apps prevent Airplay of DVD content at low level presumably for some copy protection reason.
VLC player is believed to work.
AC

Power Mac and Display - power surge?

I hope someone can help even if it's common sense...
I had my Power Mac on for a while and all of a sudden a pop/click sounded and the power went off for the apple mac and the display/monitor.
Neither turned back on and there's no sign of power so I assumed the fuses need changing; however I replaced them and both the display and mac unit still will not turn on or show any power.
Does anyone have any suggestions what else could be wrong? Since it's affecting both display and unit, I can only assume it's power-related. Much appreciated, thanks.
Power Mac G5 Mac OS X (10.4) Using Logic primarily with plug-ins - no internet connection.

Hi, and a Warm Welcome to Apple Discussions and the Power Mac G5 Forum!
Assuming the display is powered by the G5 video card and therefore by the G5 Power Supply Unit - and that you have taken the appropriate steps to ensure that the mains power up to the G5 is working ok - when the mains power to the G5 is first connected and turned on, there is usually a 'relay-click' sound at the back of the G5.
If you don't hear this, and you have a "Late 2005" dual-core G5
http://support.apple.com/specs/powermac/PowerMac_G5_Late2005.html
then it's possibly the 'Pop of Death' in the Power Supply Unit which would qualify under this recall, sorry, repair extension
http://www.apple.com/support/powermac/powersupply/repairextension/
If you do hear the relay-click, then you could try a PMU/SMU reset
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300341
If still no go and you have another, earlier G5 which is not covered by the repair extension above, it sounds like a case for AppleCare, if you have it, or the repair shop. Sorry.
Please post again if you have any questions. Good Luck.

I can not find my sent emails on iPad2 and the icon is no longer on the screen.

I have an Ipad2 under accounts I have the icon inbox and under it a trash can but there is not a sent email icon. How can I locate sent emails? On my first Ipad there is a sent icon.

Welcome to the Apple community.
Check your account details are correct, check that you are using the correct details for Location, Region and Time Zone.
You might also try logging out of and then back into your iTunes account and restarting your router.
Rentals should appear under their own heading in the ‘Movies’ feature, you might also check at Settings > iTunes Store > Check For Rentals.

Receiving charter email to mac and iphone

We have Charter email, a verizon iphones, and mac os x. We can not receive emails to our mac and iphones at the same time. According to Charter, there is no way to receive emails to our mac unless our iphone mail server is turned OFF. Is this true? Help.

I have the same issues, but wish to clarify a few of the suggestions. Basically, I have an iPhone 4 (Verizon), and a Charter e-mail account. Right now I have configured my Charter account (IMAP) to send/receive on the iPhone. However, now I can't use Outlook on my PC to send/receive e-mail from the Charter account. It gives an error indicating that another device (the iPhone) is already connected to the mail server. I would be OK with this as the e-mail on the iPhone works great, however, I like to download and store my mail locally on my PC. Now I can't do this. The only way around this is to remove the Charter account from the iPhone, dump the messages down from the server to my PC through Outlook. However, that also removes all my mail from the iPhone.
I'm down with forwarding my Charter e-mail to a G-mail account, and setting up G-mail on the iPhone. However, my concerns are:
1) Would e-mail I send from the iPhone now show my G-mail address versus my Charter address? I don't want this to happen, too much confusion.
2) Would I need to configure my home PC/Outlook to download from the G-mail server, or keep it as the Charter server?
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University email with mac and iPhone

So i guess that i must not be very tech savy or maybe this isn't possible, but would anyone know anything about setting up a university email account (that is through iPlanet Messenger Express) wih my mac and iPhone???

Lebowski-Bluto,
I was not familiar with iPlanet Messenger Express, so I did a search for it. Appears to be a web-based email service. You could access it with Safari.
However, if you are looking to download your email you need to find out the POP3 or IMAP servers your university uses.
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Sent emails not received and now not showing on sent emails list

I've sent two emails to a regular recipient but they do not appear to have been received and they are not showing on my sent emails list. Any suggestions?

just to add that this is how it appears on my screen
http://gallery.me.com/toby_clifford#100384/screen-capture
regards
t

Lost 'sent' emails on-line and on Outlook

I had to reinstall my Outlook on 25 October and on loading my email account I noticed that all my sent emails from Feb 2014 until 21 October 2014 have vanished. Incoming emails are all OK. Sent emails not there on-line on BT Mail or on Outlook. Where are they? Can anyone help me find them? Very upset.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

This is for Outlook 2010, other versions may be different.
Go to File > Account Settings > Click on the Data file tab and the Add. Browse for the old .PST file and select it. When you go back to the Home tab it should appear in the list. You can then either leave it like that or just drag and drop the required mails into your current Sent box.

Why are sent emails from mac mail going to out box and message saying cannot connect to ATT server?

I receive emails via ATT to my mac mailbox. But when I send an email it goes to the out box and I get a message that it cannot connect to the server?
The genius bar said that APPLE and ATT were working on this, but very frustrating. Any suggestions?

Same is happening with me. Was having intermittent DSL service - called AT&T to rectify.
After the internet was back up and running, I could no longer send outgoing mail from my Mac Mail 5.3 application. I didn't change any settings or update any software, yet the IT person i was talking to (the same who corrected my internet issue) was saying it was a Mail problem.
I disagree considering it was working 1/2 hour before we started our conversation!
Any insight would be helpful.
Definitely set up the way AT&T suggested!

IPhone 5 doesn't synchronise sent emails with Mac Mail and also doesn't mark them as read if they're opened on Mac Mail.

I never had this problem with my 4S — I can't fix the individual mailboxes under Settings > Mail > *My Email* > Advanced anymore like I used to either.
Does anyone have any idea?
Currently set to Fetch across all emails.

I think that Hotmail is a POP account so e-mails read on one phone will still look unread on another.
Check you e-mail account settings and see if it says it's an IMAP account.
If so, an e-mail read on one phone will show as read straight away on another.
To test the theory, just send a few e-mails and agree with your wife who will read which ones, then check them to see if the theory is correct

Imceainvalid on sent emails - Outlook 2013 and Exchange 2013 on premise

Hi All
I have a customer that has had a ongoing issue for some time now and I have had no luck in resolving it. I can see the exact same issues highlighted by other people but generally this relates to older office version and/or older exchange.
Issue: Error after sending email:
IMCEAINVALID -
Remote Server returned '550
5.1.0 RESOLVER.ADR.InvalidInSmtp; encapsulated INVALID address inside an SMTP
address (IMCEAINVALID-)'
[email protected]
Cause:
If you check the properties of the To/CC addresses (only the display name is filled out as the email address, the email address field itself and "type" are not filled (does not always occur and not for ALL
recipients of email)
Checks:
There are no local contacts for these email addresses in outlook. The auto complete cache has also been cleared. Running exchange in cached mode is not an available option due to the setup.
Email details:
These emails are generated by third party software however not the same software. This is occurring on emails generated into the outlook client by software Rosetta as well as by Mimecast plugin to download archivedemails(then reply to all). This is also
an intermittent issue and does not occur every time with all the emails.
Search:
All searches I have done seem to mainly point to the auto complete option in outlook but this is not the cause of this in my scenario. There was also a known issue in Office 2007 I believe with a office update to resolve, but this is Outlook 2013.
Any assistance would be appreciated.

Hi,
If you just create an email directly from Outlook, has this issue occurred ever?
You can also start Outlook in Safe Mode and then use the 3rd-party software to send some test emails, check if the problem persists.
To start Outlook in Safe Mode:
Press Win + R, type "outlook.exe /safe" in the blank box, press Enter.
In Outlook Safe Mode, all add-ins will be disabled. If there's no problem in Outlook Safe Mode, disable the suspicious add-ins to verify which one caused the problem.
Since the issue is intermittent, you may need to test for a period.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
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How to sync emails on mac and iPhone

How do I sync my emails on my phone with the emails on my Macbook Pro, so that when I delete items off my inbox on my phone it will automatically recognise it on my Mac?
Rather annoying having to see the emails on my Mac again after deleting them all.

Mail can be synchronized by storing it on a mail server that uses the IMAP protocol, such as iCloud. The mail stays on the server, so it's automatically in sync with all mail clients.

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