Of course it would help if I said what 'this' is.... https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2133249?threadID=2133249&start=0&tstart=0
On 20 Jan 2012, at 09:26, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote: > 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. -- 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.
