IMAP through an uncooperative proxy? [more inside]
posted by DU on Dec 18, 2009 - 13 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 by cillit bang 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 by SteveInMaine 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 by davereed on Nov 2, 2006 - 1 answer

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 by idontlikewords on Oct 31, 2006 - 4 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 by invisible ink on Sep 6, 2006 - 8 answers

How do change an IMAP account to POP? [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher 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 by reynir on Jun 6, 2006 - 11 answers

What is the best way to forward/redirect AOL email? [more inside]
posted by marc10 on Jun 2, 2006 - 3 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 by bkudria on Feb 21, 2006 - 17 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 by waldo 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 by SparkyPine on Aug 2, 2005 - 11 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 by inksyndicate 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 by jruckman 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 by skryche on Apr 18, 2005 - 12 answers

I am looking for a web host that also has IMAP email access. I'm not looking for anything fancy. I would like at least 1 GB of storage. All I read is horror stories and none of the rating sites seem very reputable. Could you please post your recommendations?
posted by whatevrnvrmind on Feb 12, 2005 - 8 answers

Non-Googlable tech support! I have a friend doing hosting off courier-imap. I am forced to use Outlook 2003 as a client. With Outlook, no matter which machine I go to, I cannot access my IMAP account and only return an error (detailed inside) about Outlook is unable to download folder (null). Here are links of people with the same problem but no solutions, 1, 2, 3. [more inside]
posted by geoff. on Feb 11, 2005 - 9 answers

How do I set up a Linux server to receive and store email? (+) [more inside]
posted by cillit bang on Feb 4, 2005 - 10 answers

is there any way to "sync" email between a mac and a treo or blackberry device? might it be as simple as configuring an IMAP account?

i don't want to manage my email remotely only to come into the office and have to do it all again. and if i send important email from the road, i want it in my "sent" folder on my desktop.

please say yes - i really want one of these babies.
posted by subpixel on Nov 10, 2004 - 1 answer

What is a good, free, hopefully Open Source email client which can handle both Pop and Imap protocols. Have been using Thunderbird, Mozilla and The Bat!, not too happy with any of their Imap implementations, though I love Mozilla/FB's bayes filtering.
posted by signal on Jan 27, 2004 - 10 answers

I need to find an ADA-compliant webmail interface. I'd prefer a free option that will allow POP3 and (preferrably) IMAP access. Hotmail is not an option since they no longer allow access to external POP boxes and Yahoo is out because of spam. Any suggestions?
posted by answergrape on Jan 20, 2004 - 2 answers

I need a simple PHP/Perl script that displays the subjects of the last 10 emails in my inbox via an IMAP connection. I'd like to use it as an include on a personal portal page. [more inside] [more inside]
posted by machaus on Dec 11, 2003 - 7 answers