Within my email client I have a hotmail.com account setup as a POP3 account. I was informed if I wanted to move emails from one IMAP account to another IMAP which is simply moving emails from one folder to another folder within my email client; folder being an email account (IMAP) to a hotmail.com. A step-by-step guide to changing your LCN.com email address from POP to IMAP. Changing your POP email account to IMAP on Outlook 2016; Changing your. Your email account in Mac Mail How to set up your email account in Outlook.
Morning I recently transferred my domain from one provider to another - as part of that change the email which was hosted as a POP email from my previous provider is now in Google Apps set up as an Imap account. When the domain had switched I setup a new Imap account is Mail.app (bear in mind that the email address was the same). The mail started coming in fine but here's the problem. I unenabled the old POP account (several thousand emails) to make sure the Imap version was working but, when i re-enable the old pop account on my mac there is nothing in the mailbox even though it should be there as it is POP so was downloaded onto my computer. Its not a serious problem at present as I was doing this on home computer and everything is also on Work computer.
I just want to know the right steps to set up the Imap account on my work computer without 'losing' all the pop emails I had. As a sidenote the old pop folder in libraryMail app is still there and has around a 1 gig in size so they are still there I just cant see them Thanks Ben. Open Mail using your new IMAP account. Select Import Mailboxes from the File menu. Select Apple Mail in the dialog. Locate the Mailboxes folder inside your POP account folder - /Home/Library/Mail/popaccount/Mailboxes/ - and click on the Open button. Check off the folders you wish to import.
When importing is completed you should find an Imported Mail folder under the On My Mac section of Mail's sidebar. You can move the messages from the imported folders into your IMAP account's folders or create new ones if you wish. Open Mail using your new IMAP account.
Select Import Mailboxes from the File menu. Select Apple Mail in the dialog. Locate the Mailboxes folder inside your POP account folder - /Home/Library/Mail/popaccount/Mailboxes/ - and click on the Open button. Check off the folders you wish to import.
When importing is completed you should find an Imported Mail folder under the On My Mac section of Mail's sidebar. You can move the messages from the imported folders into your IMAP account's folders or create new ones if you wish. Apple Footer. This site contains user submitted content, comments and opinions and is for informational purposes only.
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