“Sent” “Drafts” “Trash” – Select/highlight them one at a time then choose Mailbox->Use this mailbox for->Sent (for Sent) etc. Underneath your new Mailbox in the sidebar will be a couple of sub-folders e.g. VERY irritating.Ĭlose the Preferences window and now you should see a new account Make sure in Preferences>Account>Mailbox Behaviours you UNCHECK “Store deleted messgaes on the server” or all of your deleted messages keep re-appearing. The only information that is different from your existing POP account settings is the “Incoming Mail Server” which is the IMAP server you found out from your ISP. Make sure you specify, when asked, that the “Type of account” is IMAP. Follow theinstructions, entering all the information requested. Go to File->Preferences->Accounts-> and create a new account by clicking on the button in the bottom left of the window. In case anything goes wrong, you can just restore everything to how it was before. Time Machine on the Mac operating system is brilliant for this and a 1TB drive costs as little as £69 when I posted this. You’ll also need to know your and for the email address you’re setting up. They’re small, reliable, friendly, a co-operative, committed to behaving ethically and with a sense of social responsibility and there’s always someone on the end of the phone. At Unlimited we use (and always have since 1997) the brilliant Phone Coop for all our web hosting needs. Just phone them up and ask or google “IMAP ” – even BT have an answer for that. I use Apple Mail as my email client, so the instructions here are specific to that.įIRST THING you’ll need to do is to find out the IMAP server address from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Some of the below will be very obvious to some of you but I’m imagining having to explain this to my wife, not a geek like me… And so I wanted to share how easy it is to do with anyone else who might want to know how to do it too. It’s brilliant, it’s revolutionised the way I use email, I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to get round to changing over, especially since it’s so easy to do. That’s because with IMAP all the messages live on a central server and are synced from there across all the devices I tell it to. All messages that I send, from any device, show up in my “Sent” folder on all devices. If I receive and delete a message on my phone, it will also be deleted from my laptop. Now that I’ve changed to an IMAP set-up, whenever I read a message on one device it marks it as read on all the others. And it was just becoming too time consuming (and frustrating!) to manage that across all devices and difficult to keep track of where everything was. With my POP account all three devices receive ALL the messages (even when I’ve deleted them on another device) and all the messages I send live in separate “Sent” folders on different devices. …I use three devices to read and send my email (laptop, tablet, smartphone). Yesterday I did something I’ve been wanting to do for along time – change my email from a POP account to an IMAP account. Changing POP email to IMAP on Apple devices…
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