Hi Bill, Tim is correct, we covered this only a few days ago, but I couldn't find the thread just not. So I have put this together quickly, I had the information in a PDF, so have cut & pasted the parts that I hope will help you
Step 2. is VERY IMPORTANT: To avoid any potential disasters, save all the messages you have on your Mac to a different mailbox before you convert to IMAP. How to convert a POP email account to IMAP Most email providers let you choose between two ways to get your messages. You can have a POP (Post Office Protocol) account that downloads all your messages to your Mac, iPhone or iPad. Or, you can have an IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) account that leaves some or all of your messages up on the mail server so you can access them from any device. For example, with a POP account, if you check email on your iPhone, the messages downloaded there will only be there; when you get back to your Mac, you won’t see them in your inbox. With IMAP, they’ll be on all your devices. If you’ve been using a POP account, but have grown frustrated with inaccessible messages, you can usually convert your account to IMAP. Most hosting companies and providers offer both options. However, making this conversion requires that you take precautions so you don’t lose any messages. Here’s how to make the switch safely: 1. Check with your email host If you manage your email account yourself, check on your hosting company’s dashboard to make sure you can use IMAP. (It’s very rare that this is not available.) If you get email through your business or school, check with the IT department. Find out what settings you will need to access your email as an IMAP account, and whether anything needs to be changed on the server side. If you use Gmail, this help page will tell you how to change your Gmail account from POP to IMAP. (You have to enable IMAP on the Gmail website.) 2. Protect the message you’ve already downloaded To avoid any potential disasters, save all the messages you have on your Mac to a different mailbox before you convert to IMAP. IMAP stores some or all of your email on the mail server. The problem is, this means that any folders that are on your Mac may get overwritten, or deleted, if you don’t save their messages before making the switch. So, in Mail, choose Mailbox -> New Mailbox, and, with the location as On My Mac, create a new mailbox. Call it something like My Old Inbox. When you’ve done this, move all the messages currently in your Inbox to this folder. Do the same for your Sent Mail folder, and any Drafts you may have. Once this is done, you can change the settings for your email account. 3. Find your IMAP settings Either your hosting company, your IT department, or your email provider will provide the settings you need to switch your account over to IMAP. For example, for Gmail, you will need to know the new Incoming Mail Server (imap.gmail.com), but your outgoing mail server won’t change. In most cases, you will just need to change the prefix in the Incoming Mail Server setting from pop to imap. Write these down. You'll need them in Step 5. 4. Disable your POP account In Mail, choose Preferences -> Accounts, click on the name of your POP account, then on Advanced, then uncheck Enable this account. 5. Create a new IMAP email account In Mail, you can’t change an email account from POP to IMAP. Instead, you need to create a new account. Choose File -> Add Account, and enter the information that you obtained in step 3 above. 6. Check your email If you entered the correct information, your new IMAP account should work right away. You will see an Inbox folder that is on the email server. Copy the messages you stored in your old inbox folder in step 2 to that folder, and they will be copied to your email server, so they will now be accessible from all your devices. Do the same for any sent messages or drafts. Now that you have an IMAP account on your Mac, use the same settings to access your messages on another Mac, or on your iOS device(s). On your iPad or iPhone, enter the necessary information in the Settings app, in the Mail, Contacts, Calendars section. If you create more folders to store messages you’ll see them on all your devices. To do this, choose Mailbox -> New Mailbox, then in the popup menu at the top of the dialog box, choose the name of your email account. The folder will be created on your mail server, and any messages you store in that folder will sync to all your devices. IMAP is much better for managing email across multiple devices. Change your old POP accounts to IMAP now so you can have access to your email at all times. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 “Thunderbolt" 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 25 Feb 2014, at 6:26 pm, Tim Law <t...@peoplehelp.com.au> wrote: > Bill, > > I understand you have to delete the account and establish a new one with the > preferred credentials. > > As far as I know, you will not lose what is on the server - what you are > setting up in Mail is just the way to access and control the material is on > the server. > > In Mail, you will find Accounts in the Mail-preferences item, or somewhere > close by with other versions. > > You probably were in the right place when you went to find out what type of > account it was. Click on the + sign to add a new account. - sign to delete a > selected account. > > You CAN have your separate Mail accounts, ie your different email addresses, > using either POP or IMAP. The thing that matters is that the same email > account is the same protocol across all your devices. > > Hope this helps > > Tim > > > On 25 Feb 2014, at 6:12 pm, Bill Parker <ren...@westnet.com.au> wrote: > >> Tim, >> >> This has prompted a look at my accounts (5) , some IMAP some POP. How do I >> change the POPs to IMAPs? >> >> BIll >> On 25/02/2014, at 6:05 PM, Tim Law wrote: >> >>> Hi Laura, >>> >>> I forget your previous issues and what anyone has already helped you with. >>> >>> Another WAMUG member was having what sounds as similar issues and I >>> suggested that they check to make SURE that all their email accounts were >>> set up using IMAP and not POP. They must all be the same otherwise odd >>> things will happen. >>> >>> Daniel or Ronni posted an excellent summary on the advantages and >>> differences between both setups in the last week. A review of recent WAMUG >>> archives would find these I'm sure. >>>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> >>>>> Looking in the iPad Trash I can see a couple of emails have indeed come >>>>> through, one from Stephen about Security Questions for Apple ID on 13/2 >>>>> and a thread between Ronni and Pat, on QT behaviour on 15/2. Both these >>>>> dates were after my email address had been changed. >>> >>> These particular emails. Had you seen them before? Had you deleted them on >>> another device? If yes, then that is how IMAP is meant to work. If not, >>> then I am less able to help. >>> >>> If you are well past this simple set up issue, then sorry, I can't help >>> more. >>> >>> Tim >>> >>> >>> On 25 Feb 2014, at 5:30 pm, Laura Webb <elja...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Good afternoon all >>>> >>>> Some of you may recall my recent problems with the non receipt of WAMUG >>>> emails and that, after exhaustive enquires by iiNet no solution could be >>>> found other than changing my WAMUG email address to one of my two iCloud >>>> addresses. Having done that I am now receiving the WAMUG emails OK on both >>>> MBP and MacMini but not on my iPad. It was a while before I realised this. >>>> I’ve checked the settings on the iPad and as far as I am aware everything >>>> is as it should be. Both iCloud addresses are shown and both are supposed >>>> to receive incoming mail. I receive a weekly email from IceTV via one of >>>> them (not the one being used by WAMUG) >>>> >>>> Looking in the iPad Trash I can see a couple of emails have indeed come >>>> through, one from Stephen about Security Questions for Apple ID on 13/2 >>>> and a thread between Ronni and Pat, on QT behaviour on 15/2. Both these >>>> dates were after my email address had been changed. >>>> >>>> At the time of all the trouble Daniel suggested perhaps trying once again >>>> to have WAMUG use my iiNet address. At that stage I was so confused at all >>>> that was going on I just wanted things to settle down. Maybe some time in >>>> the future I’ll try that again but in the meantime I am hoping there is a >>>> simple answer as to why WAMUG emails are not reaching my iPad. >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Laura
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