Hi Pat Have you set up the account as POP or IMAP? If you go to the Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > It should say in the accounts list what type.
Assuming it's POP There's a file in your Mail folder on your Mac which keeps track of which POP messages have been downloaded from the server. If that file becomes corrupt, or inconsistent with what's on the POP server then it will just download everything again. Assuming your account's been set up as POP, your best bet is to set it up again (don't delete the original account just yet) as an IMAP account. Newer versions of Mail will do this automatically but if not, use these settings : Account type : IMAP Username : your email address Password : your password Incoming mail server : imap.gmail.com Outgoing mail server : smtp.gmail.com (no change from the first account). Once the IMAP account has synced then you can move your sent items over to the new account. Mail has a habit of using one sent mailbox for one email address, so you need to trick it into thinking they are two separate addresses : Accounts > POP account > Email address > change to anything other than your email address (I add the word POP to it). Send a new email making sure it's from the IMAP account and Mail will create a new Sent mailbox for the IMAP account. You can now drag & drop all your sent email (probably best to do 500 at a time) from one Sent mailbox to the other. Once all your sent messages are safely uploaded to Google, you can disable your POP account in Accounts > Advanced > untick enable this account. You'll probably find that emails you'd previously deleted are back in your inbox, that's because Mail deleted them from your computer's inbox, not the server's inbox. You can go through and delete them again or just leave them, gmail has plenty of space. Assuming it's IMAP Similar to above but you don't need to do anything, it'll resync with Gmail ;) Regards Sam MacAmbulance Providing affordable Apple & PC services Sam Mullen 07747 778022 http://www.macambulance.co.uk [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
