Escabechette has years of old e-mail stored on an old school account that's soon going to close. We want to move all this e-mail to her gmail account. Apparently this is now easy because "GMail supports IMAP." But I haven't succeeded in finding instructions (on AskMeFi or elsewhere) which are suitable for someone, like me, who doesn't know what the word "IMAP" means. Is this really easy? And can you explain to this naif how to do it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 19, 2008 - 8 answers

Does Nokia N95 encrypts e-mail passwords that it stores for automatic retrieval? [more inside]
posted on Jun 14, 2008 - 6 answers

Why do messages keep showing up as new / undeleted in my IMAP Thunderbird e-mail? [more inside]
posted on May 13, 2008 - 3 answers

Incredibly annoying IMAP problem - Any ideas? [more inside]
posted on May 8, 2008 - 6 answers

Where has my Google Apps IMAP gone? [more inside]
posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 9 answers

Using Mail.app in Tiger and now all of my IMAP email is gone. Please help. [more inside]
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm curious how people deal w. their old email. (esp those using Outlook and IMAP, but others, too...) [more inside]
posted on Apr 3, 2008 - 15 answers

Leopard, Apple Mail & IMAP issues: Since upgrading to Leopard, Apple Mail seems sluggish and unresponsive. The application is effectively unusable. It's gotten to the point where I'm using webmail access on all of my machines. Is this an issue with Apple Mail or have I misconfigured something (I use Dreamhost for my personal email accounts). [more inside]
posted on Feb 28, 2008 - 11 answers

Thunderbird is messing up my outgoing attachments. Please help. [more inside]
posted on Feb 24, 2008 - 2 answers

Mail.app + Nokia e61 + gApps IMAP [more inside]
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 8 answers

I want my email messages to be in the same state (read, deleted, filed, sent) on three different Macintoshes. Will iSync do what I want? Is there another solution to the chaos? [more inside]
posted on Feb 3, 2008 - 15 answers

I've been using Mail.app with OS X Leopard as a front end to my Gmail account. And it works great, for the most part. Unfortunately it seems to download both my "Inbox" and also the "All Mail" folder from Gmail. This has the effect of increasing the amount of messages in Mail.app significantly, and I want it to stop. [more inside]
posted on Jan 27, 2008 - 10 answers

Two questions regarding the use of Outlook 2007 and Gmail's IMAP. Here are the questions; detailed explanations inside. -I use Gmail to pull mail and send from two other e-mail accounts. Is there a way to set Outlook up to do the same? -When I open Outlook, it creates a label called "Junk E-mail" in Gmail. Is there a way to stop this? [more inside]
posted on Jan 15, 2008 - 2 answers

How can I sync, and keep in sync, my Powerbook G4 (tiger) & Mac Mini (leopard)? [more inside]
posted on Dec 20, 2007 - 9 answers

As a follow up to this question, can I use the following scheme to get all my popped emails back into my Yahoo account? [more inside]
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - 0 answers

Help me use email in a multi-user environment. IMAP is great, but not for more than one user at a time. [more inside]
posted on Dec 10, 2007 - 14 answers

My work's firewall recently began blocking outbound traffic that isn't on ports 22, 80, and 443, and I'd like to use my home router (running openwrt) to proxy my personal IMAP email so I can read it from work. [more inside]
posted on Nov 5, 2007 - 9 answers

Maybe you can help me figure out my incredibly interesting gmail IMAP vs Pine problem. According to gmail, the only non-label folder you want to really map to a special IMAP folder is the Drafts folder. If you are still with me ... [more inside]
posted on Oct 30, 2007 - 3 answers

How do I use Gmail's new IMAP with my existing Exchange e-mail? [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2007 - 8 answers

Any suggestions on how I could get push-imap with my own IMAP server? I'm running cyrus-imap, and the client in question is an iPhone. [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 8 answers

How can I do a simple logon to a POP3 account using ASP/VBScript? [more inside]
posted on Sep 17, 2007 - 6 answers

Any recommendations for paid IMAP e-mail hosting? [more inside]
posted on Sep 15, 2007 - 11 answers

I manage a small network of users, and currently we are using Google Apps for our domain, and getting mail via POP. I'd very much like to fake IMAP access to Google by creating an intermediary/shadow account (either on our web host, or on our local Apple XServe running OS X 10.4 Server) and configuring it like so: 1. Set Google address to forward automatically to shadow account. 2. Set desktops to check mail through shadow account, but send email through Google's SMTP servers, to keep conversations in tact. [more inside]
posted on Sep 3, 2007 - 4 answers

How can I aggregate (scrape) email from many different POP/IMAP/web-based accounts to a single server? [more inside]
posted on Jul 9, 2007 - 11 answers

What is the easiest way to automatically archive IMAP emails (incoming and outgoing) from multiple user accounts? Gmail doesn't handle IMAP and I don't have access to our school's server. We need a central location to archive our research projects emails. Mac, PC, or web method okay.
posted on Jul 8, 2007 - 3 answers

I want to run a mail server on my computer so that I can feed email from different POP accounts into an IMAP account. The weird part is I don't care to access by IMAP over the web, but I do want to POP it into GMail. Confused? Me too. [more inside]
posted on Jun 28, 2007 - 4 answers

I've been using Outlook for years, but I'm looking for a better solution to manage my email accounts and massive archive of messages. [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2007 - 17 answers

Webmail IMAP client: like SquirrelMail, but smaller, for a mobile phone? My new phone (S/E w810i) does "email", in the sense that it can talk to a small range of pre-selected partners like Yahoo or AOL. I'm looking for a web-based IMAP client that I can use to access my own IMAP server. It should be something along the lines of MIR, but that allows writing mail as well as reading it. I like SquirrelMail a lot, but it doesn't have a non-framed, minimal view.
posted on Mar 19, 2007 - 8 answers

UW IMAP stores inboxes in /var/spool/mail/[username]. When I delete mail from my inbox (using Apple Mail), a copy of the message is left behind in that file, and it gets huge, even though it appears to have actually been removed from my inbox. Is there any way to prevent this happening, or at least to compact it?
posted on Jan 12, 2007 - 10 answers

We're making the switch from POP mail to hosted Exchange mail, and it isn't as much fun as it should be. [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2006 - 4 answers

I'm looking for a cheap (free?) web site that will let me set up mail rules for an IMAP account on a different server. [more inside]
posted on Nov 2, 2006 - 1 answers

Is there a perl/shellscripted way to automatically check a pop3 account and copy new messages directly into a specified IMAP folder? I've already set up a "forwarding rule" that sort of does this, but if there's a more direct way to accomplish it, that would be cool...
posted on Oct 31, 2006 - 4 answers

Almost all my incoming mail messages are unencrypted. I use IMAP and access my mail from multiple macintoshes (using Mail.app). I want to store all my mail on my IMAP server encrypted so that my admins can't read it. [more inside]
posted on Sep 28, 2006 - 7 answers

SquirrelMail from DreamHost keeps dropping my connection. [more inside]
posted on Sep 8, 2006 - 11 answers

I had the extraordinary privilege of being on Fastmail.fm's server3 when it conked out for a three-day outage, beginning on August 31st:-( I am now searching for a new IMAP provider and have found two - Tuffmail.com, and Pobox.com, that come highly recommended from users on this discussion board - but of course, I also want the opinion of the hive mind:-) Does anyone here use them or another IMAP provider that you would recommend? How have they treated you, in terms of reliability, customer service, value, etc? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2006 - 8 answers

How do change an IMAP account to POP? [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2006 - 4 answers

How do I extract the email addresses from a folder of sent mail sitting on an IMAP server, so that they can be put into a mailing list? [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2006 - 11 answers

What is the best way to forward/redirect AOL email? [more inside]
posted on Jun 2, 2006 - 3 answers

After installing, uninstalling and reinstalling, there are ghosts of my old (now deleted) IMAP folders. How the heck do I get rid of them? [more inside]
posted on Apr 26, 2006 - 6 answers

Where is all my email? I just installed Windows XP Pro, Firefox, and Thunderbird on a brand-new hard drive. I then copied the entire contents of the C:\Documents and Settings\Username (including hidden files) from the old hard drive onto the new one. Hallelujah, all my cookies, bookmarks, and extensions in Firefox work like a charm. Thunderbird, however .... [more inside]
posted on Feb 26, 2006 - 6 answers

I have a POP email account and an IMAP email account...how do I send the POP email to the IMAP account? [more inside]
posted on Feb 21, 2006 - 17 answers

Web based IMAP client? [more inside]
posted on Dec 1, 2005 - 6 answers

I need a way to transfer a ton of old email from an old IMAP account to a new one. Dragging and dropping in both Thunderbird and Apple Mail keeps messing up. Can anyone suggest a tool that's designed for this purpose, or a more efficient method? [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2005 - 3 answers

Is there a portable IMAP client that stores settings on a USB drive for OSX? [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2005 - 1 answers

I want my small office's half dozen desktop computers to retrieve incoming e-mail from an external mail server, but store all IMAP folders on an internal mail server. Is this possible? [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2005 - 10 answers

I need to allow a few people to access our mail server using Outlook from outside the building. They use OWA yet do not like having to use a web page to do this (yeah, I know...). I thought of setting up POP3 but am not sure what ports I need to open on the firewall (110, 25 do not seem to cut it). What is the functional difference between POP3 and IMAP and is either one better/easier to setup? (File folder sharing would be an optional objective). Microsoft's KB system sucks...any other useful articles out there?
posted on Aug 2, 2005 - 11 answers

I've just switched to IMAP after (literally) fifteen years of pop mail. What are some tips, warnings, and best practices? [more inside]
posted on Jul 12, 2005 - 6 answers

My client uses AOL for mail, which I have to sift through, and forward to various places. I want to set up scripts to automate some of it. Is there a good mail client for Macintosh capable of dealing with AOL mail, through IMAP, to let me set up clever filters for it? [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2005 - 6 answers

I'm looking for a web-based email client: something I can pull in all my IMAP accounts with at one time (preferably into one merged inbox), something free (although I'm open to paid solutions as well), and either something remotely hosted (like web2mail, but with simultaneous access to multiple accounts) or a PHP/JavaScript/what-have-you solution I can install on my webserver. Any ideas?
posted on Jun 2, 2005 - 9 answers

I love Google mail, but I also love my email address. Is there a way I can use gmail as the client for my email (accessible via POP or IMAP) so I can have both?
posted on Apr 18, 2005 - 12 answers