I've heard only good things about Tuffmail and Fastmail but I'm looking for recommendations on reliable E-Mail Providers with data centers in more privacy-minded countries (which excludes some parts of Europe and the US). [more inside]
posted by mathiu on Nov 6, 2009 - 1 answer

How do I sync two IMAP folders? I currently use Gmail for all my e-mail (personal & work). I currently have about 4,000+ messages archived in Gmail and I'll continue to add 300-500 per month. I also have a IMAP account with my webhost and I was wondering if there was any type of application or script that would connect to the Gmail IMAP servers and backup/sync all of my mail so I know that in addition to being in Gmail's cloud....it is also on my IMAP server in case something happens. Thoughts?
posted by 4chrisd on Sep 6, 2009 - 4 answers

Do you know a reputable provider to add IMAP to a Linux email box? [more inside]
posted by roundrock on Aug 29, 2009 - 15 answers

Looking for advice on email hosting solutions that can accommodate lots of old email. [more inside]
posted by rkent on Jun 1, 2009 - 6 answers

After reading this AskMe, I decided to use Mac's Mail program to keep copies of my messages on my gmail account on my computer. However, I wanted to use the "IMAP" option to keep copies of all my mail both on the web, in gmail, and on my computer, in Mac Mail. Instead, something else happened and now I'm in trouble. [more inside]
posted by foxy_hedgehog on May 18, 2009 - 7 answers

How do I stop Outlook / Thunderbird timing out when pushing emails to Gmail via IMAP? [more inside]
posted by charlie7691 on May 4, 2009 - 3 answers

If I make changes using a command-line utility to an mbox file that is the local cache of an IMAP account, how can I get those changes uploaded to the server? (Mac OS X 10.4, Mail.app, Perl script.) [more inside]
posted by DLWM on Apr 16, 2009 - 3 answers

I'm using Gmail with IMAP, and Mail.app (and an iPhone, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't matter for these purposes). How can I erase the old messages in the "Sent" folder on my desktop app without erasing them on Gmail? [more inside]
posted by veggieboy on Feb 14, 2009 - 3 answers

Does anybody know an IMAP Client that shows email like an IM client? IM client that can display and respond to IMAP-based email? [more inside]
posted by phaedrus441 on Feb 6, 2009 - 7 answers

Where did my email go? Mail.app has lost an important email message that is stuck somewhere in between sending on my end and receiving on the receiver's end. How can I get it back? [more inside]
posted by pised on Feb 6, 2009 - 4 answers

Gmail, Outlook, and Sync oh my! How do I sort through this? [more inside]
posted by zooropa on Jan 29, 2009 - 4 answers

How do I move around 2000 messages from Apple's Mail.app (10.4) to a Google Apps (Premier) GMail account quickly and efficiently? [more inside]
posted by Wild_Eep on Jan 18, 2009 - 8 answers

Help me communicate to my MS Exchange server admin: I want (full) IMAP access! [more inside]
posted by tucsongal on Jan 8, 2009 - 9 answers

I have an IMAP email folder with about 10,000 messages. Each of the messages has a .jpg image attached. I want to save all of those images into a folder on my hard drive. Any ideas on the best way to do this? [more inside]
posted by team lowkey on Nov 6, 2008 - 6 answers

Email Filter: Why aren't I using POP instead of IMAP? Which do you use and why? [more inside]
posted by jak68 on Nov 1, 2008 - 13 answers

At my work, multiple users access a single IMAP account via webmail. Is there any way I can configure my Mail.app so I can use this account without altering the mailbox on the server? I'd like to delete and move messages about on Mail while leaving the emails as they are for everyone else. Thanks!
posted by einekleine on Oct 12, 2008 - 2 answers

Whats the best desktop client to use for multiple Gmail accounts? [more inside]
posted by jeffderek on Sep 30, 2008 - 8 answers

Trouble synching sent mail via IMAP over multiple devices (all of them set up with IMAP). [more inside]
posted by bingo on Aug 31, 2008 - 1 answer

What should I use for personal e-mail over IMAP? [more inside]
posted by grouse on Aug 29, 2008 - 15 answers

My company recently switched from a standard POP mail server to having GMail as our MX server and hosting all our business accounts. Overall the benefits are quite positive, but I'm having some usage issues that bug me. Can you help me use gmail better? Specific questions inside. [more inside]
posted by arniec on Aug 28, 2008 - 16 answers

Gmail IMAP + Thunderbird: I set up Thunderbird as my email client last week, and everything has been smooth sailing until today. When I opened T-bird, every email I've ever written was in my Inbox! Please make it stop! [more inside]
posted by freudenschade on Aug 8, 2008 - 4 answers

I like to think of myself as somewhat of a power user when it comes to mail servers, SSH, Gmail, and Outlook, but this one has me stumped! I use Outlook for both work and personal e-mail, but while on the network at work our ports are pretty locked down. How might I access my Gmail account via IMAP in Outlook while on a locked-down network? Ports 25, 110, 143, 587, 993, etc., are all blocked. In order to access personal e-mail, I connect via SSH (PuTTY) to my DreamHost mail server and tunnel POP/SMTP (ports 110 and 25) traffic over that SSH session. Is there any way I could use that SSH connection to tunnel to Gmail's servers for IMAP access as well? If not using that tunnel, is there another way? I can access Gmail through a web browser, but my objective is to be able to collect all my e-mail in Outlook as well. Thanks!
posted by izicwe on Aug 7, 2008 - 16 answers

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 by escabeche on Jul 19, 2008 - 9 answers

Does Nokia N95 encrypts e-mail passwords that it stores for automatic retrieval? [more inside]
posted by raphael19 on Jun 14, 2008 - 6 answers

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

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

Where has my Google Apps IMAP gone? [more inside]
posted by gergtreble 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 by 4ster 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 by ManInSuit 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 by aladfar on Feb 28, 2008 - 11 answers

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

Mail.app + Nokia e61 + gApps IMAP [more inside]
posted by dance 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 by Capri 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 by qwip 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 by phaded on Jan 15, 2008 - 2 answers

How can I sync, and keep in sync, my Powerbook G4 (tiger) & Mac Mini (leopard)? [more inside]
posted by prophetsearcher 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 by sk381 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 by al_fresco 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 by whir 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 by 31d1 on Oct 30, 2007 - 3 answers

How do I use Gmail's new IMAP with my existing Exchange e-mail? [more inside]
posted by zooropa 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 by darkshade on Sep 25, 2007 - 8 answers

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

Any recommendations for paid IMAP e-mail hosting? [more inside]
posted by Ø 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 by jeffxl 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 by merkuron 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 by philrj 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 by BigSky 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 by justkevin 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 by migurski on Mar 19, 2007 - 8 answers