E-mail clients using IMAP often leave messages on the server until the user deletes them. This allows multiple clients to manage the same mailbox - useful for support help desks for example. IMAP is just one communications protocol on the web. Others include: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ...
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IMAP and Outlook 2010
I am trying to set up an IMAP account in Outlook 2010. I have already set up one IMAP account with no problems, however the new account is driving me nuts.
I have deleted the account within File > ...
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Can Outlook 2010, IMAP account be set up to move files when disconnected from the server?
I travel a lot and would like to read/file/archive e-mails when on a plane and other times when I can't be connected to the internet. Whenever I try to do this I get the message "Cannot move the ...
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Switching from POP to IMAP, but folders have mixed email addresses
After years of using Thunderbird and POP, I am looking to move my mail back to the server and use IMAP to make sync'ing multiple devices easier.
The aspects of creating the IMAP user in Thunderbird, ...
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Issues when receiving e-mails from my gmail imap server
I opened my gmail loging in using chrome. I have asked several people to send me test e-mails.
These e-mails are delivered in my IMAP inbox folder. When I open outlook 2011 for mac (i have all the ...
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Configuring DNS to resolve one host for email (IMAP) and another for web/FTP/etc
Not sure if this goes here or on serverfault, but here it goes. I have an account with Fastmail where I host my email. So my domain (simulplex.net) currently resolves to that, including WWW as well ...
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Why are my Outlook sent emails “disappearing” from the Sent messages folder?
I'm using Outlook 2007 with IMAP. I've configured sent messages to be put in the server-based "Sent" folder of my IMAP account. When I send emails, the email will briefly appear in the Sent messages ...
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Read .msf/mbox files offline in Thunderbird
I have GMail account set up in Thunderbird 12.0.1 via IMAP. All the emails in it were synchronised to the client long ago. I no longer have access to the GMail account, but the mbox and .msf files are ...
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20GB+ worth of emails in my /home what is a better solution for that?
My email storage requirements are outgrowing anything reasonable with respect to local mail storage. As we speak 99% of my home partition is filled with personal mail in Thunderbirds mail dirs. ...
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How to move mails between imap folders with a cronjob?
I need to move all mails inside inbox at a specific time e.g. Thursday 1:00 p.m. to a special IMAP folder in order to implement a deadline for homeworks. I know I could fire up my mail user agent like ...
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How can I force Thunderbird to re-download a corrupted message from the IMAP server?
I have a mail message that is corrupted in Thunderbird, but correct on the IMAP server (which is Gmail). Is it possible for me to tell Thunderbird to discard its copy and re-download it from the ...
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Some Outlook IMAP folders not stored on the server
I am trying to help someone migrate their outlook data to another outlook install. They are using an IMAP account to store their data so I thought it would be easy (famous last words). However, when ...
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Keep IMAP messages locally when deleted remotely
I use my email from my phone and my computer via IMAP. I want to set something up so that if I delete a message via my phone, my computer will still keep the message locally.
For example, assume I ...
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How to go around email forwarding
I have a problem with email forwarding that I want to overcome/go around. My university account has some sort of problem with forwarding. It just denies it. The people responsible have been trying to ...
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Single interface for multiple email accounts
I have multiple e-mail accounts (about 10) and multiple devices I use to access mail from those accounts. It is very inconvenient to setup everything on each device and keep everything in sync.
Is ...
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What's stored in the PST files that are created when using Outlook with IMAP accounts?
Aside from calendar and contacts, what's stored in the PST files that are created when using Outlook with IMAP accounts? The answer obviously has to be emails/email information, but why is it stored ...
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Thunderbird only downloading for offline use one message, not the many 100s in the folder.
I want to archive the many 100s of emails in folders on my IMAP account using Thunderbird. I was able to do it for one folder earlier, but now T-bird is only downloading 1-2 messages per folder. Any ...
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Remove email's labels in Gmail using ThunderBird?
I'm using ThunderBird 3 for the first time and it has done synced my mailbox through IMAP. Can anyone tell me how to remove an email's label in Gmail using ThunderBird?
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Is there IMAP Mail Retrieval Agent (MRA) solution that caches 'seen' messages?
I wish to find an MRA which will only download mail it hasn't previously downloaded (regardless of IMAP 'seen' flag) and pass them to a Mail Delivery Agent (MDA).
I wish to use a remote IMAP server ...
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Move mail from specific address to an inbox folder
Is there a way I can set up my mail to automatically move to a specific inbox folder depending on the source address?
EDIT:
I'm using thunderbird specifically. Mac, Windows, and Linux. from address: ...
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Converting IMAP to POP3
I would like to set my settings on Microsoft Windows Hotmail to allow me to change from IMAP to POP3. I'm trying to change a setting where all my university emails have been downloaded to my Outlook ...
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Ubuntu server: Trouble setting up Courier-IMAP server
I'm running Ubuntu server 11.10 and trying to set up an IMAP server with Courier-IMAP. I followed guide here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Courier which is basically nothing more than apt-get ...
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How can I force Thunderbird to reload IMAP folder structure
Whenever I create a new label in my Gmail account, this creates a new IMAP folder. Sadly, that new folder does not show up in Thunderbird unless I restart Thunderbird.
This is not specific to Gmail. ...
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Have mutt check a directory for new mail brought by fetchmail
Is there a way to have mutt check a directory for new emails brought in my fetchmail rather than then my gmail imap? Having mutt check on demand is slow, basically I just reload the imap folder which ...
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Is there a way to get Gmail labels in Thunderbid with POP so that to get only message from a label and delete them from the server?
I have this Thunderbird client installed and this Gmail account.
I've tested some ways to download only emails from a specific label to my e-mail client and delete them from the server and I've seen ...
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Unable to delete emails from a business email over IMAP (Gmail servers)
I have an email addresse from a company that forwards all of them into Gmail (Imap). Now, in Outlook 2007, when I delete an email from that account, the email just get greyed out with a horizontal ...
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Intermediate mail server or how to get IMAP with POP
I have the following problem: my university mail is on a IMAP server and I'm a Gmail user. I want to forward my university mail to mail Gmail, but it only accepts POP3 servers. I'm wondering if there ...
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Getting local POP mailbox messages into Gmail
I currently bring my Gmail mail into Thunderbird via POP for backup purposes (POP is just the way I roll).
Should I ever need to push that mail back onto Gmail via IMAP using Thunderbird - is the ...
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Mutt will not let me save an SSL certificate
I have just set up Mutt to connect to my firm's IMAP and SMTP server. Everything works; but when I launch mutt, I get a warning about the certificate, and am given the option to:
(r)eject, accept ...
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Yahoo sub accounts with Thunderbird
I hava an account on Yahoo (eg. myname@yahoo.com) with several sub accounts (sub1@myname.com, sub2@myname.com)
I am trying to access these accounts using thunderbird with no success.
Have tried:
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Yahoo IMAP Spam folder not recognized by Outlook 2007
Yahoo uses the name Bulk Mail for it's spam folder, when connecting via IMAP.
However, Outlook 2007 by default uses the name Junk E-mail.
So whenever I connect to my Yahoo email account with ...
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IMAP client that can mute threads like gmail lets you?
Are there any IMAP clients that run on OSX that will let you hide replies to a thread unless I'm in the TO or CC headers?
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Does Outlook 2010 support IMAP push or not?
I've setup Gmail and Yahoo IMAP email accounts in Outlook 2010.
When I get a new email in one of these accounts, should it get pushed automatically to my Outlook client? It seems like I can only see ...
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Outlook and IMAP accounts
I am using Outlook 2010 and had a POP account which i am now re-creating as an IMAP account, the problem is that i cannot get rid of the .pst file associated with the pOP account.
Is there a way to do ...
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IMAP and server data loss: what happens?
I know that when using IMAP, changes made locally in your email client(s) are reflected onto the server, and vice versa. So if you delete an email in your email provider's webmail, it'll no longer ...
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How to change a POP account to IMAP in Outlook or Windows Live Mail?
I have some e-mails accounts sets to POP and now we have the IMAP service, so we would like to change to IMAP because of the benefits that it comes with it.
But I'm trying to do that in Outlook ...
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Feeding emails from imap folder into sieve script
I have IMAP folders on a dovecot server containing a high number of emails (>10.000). I want to apply an existing sieve script to the mails in these folders. I know I can feed the mails from the ...
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Can't see emails older than one year in Outlook 2010
I'm using Outlook 2010 on my office and home computer and have setup my email as IMAP on both.
I can't see emails older than one year.
I have tried to check the setting on both computers but can't ...
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Sync different instances of Thunderbird when using IMAP
I am using 2 computers: 1 personal laptop (Linux) and 1 work desktop (WinXP). I use Thunderbird on both computers to fetch email from my GMail account. I haven't been using this email client for very ...
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Thunderbird (or Icedove) and Gmail IMAP offline caching
I currently use Icedove (Thunderbird as it's known outside of the Debian world) for accessing my Google Apps mail via IMAP. I'm interested in having this cached locally on my machine. I have lots of ...
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Emails deleted from iPhone are still visible in Thunderbird
I have Thunderbird 9.0.1 and iOS MobileMail.app (iPhone 4S) connected to the same IMAP account on a Dovecot server.
When I delete emails from Thunderbird, they no longer show up on the iPhone. So ...
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Thunderbird doesn't receive IMAP-PUSH mails from googlemail
I noticed for a while now that my thunderbird client is not receiving the mails "immediately" anymore, but has to regularly synchronize my IMAP folders with googlemail.
I am also using Trillian ...
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Is there a standard format for imap filter rules?
Is there a standard format for imap filter rules?
I want to know if there is a set format that different imap filter system can convert to their own rules, or is a matter for adopting the format most ...
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Incredimail equivalents that support full IMAP (looking for web-based addons for gmail and desktop apps)
Are there alternatives/equivalents for Incredimail. I ask on behalf of a family friend who enjoys using the animated graphics in their emails.
I ask because it would appear that incredimail does not ...
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I cannot see the “sent”, “drafts”, “deleted”, or “junk” folders in the Live Mail client
I am using the Windows Live Mail client. My incoming mail server is an IMAP server.
I am receiving emails to my inbox. Apart from the inbox folder, I cannot see the SENT, or DRAFTS or DELETED or ...
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Thunderbird - Do not delete local copies of IMAP messages
Hypothetical scenario:
The IMAP inbox has two messages, A and B.
Thunderbird syncs, and downloads both A and B.
A new message C, is delivered to the IMAP server.
B is deleted from the server by a ...
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Can I configure Thunderbird to update “sent” in the background?
In my copy of Thunderbird (for Mac), the Sent folder for my IMAP account does not refresh its contents automatically. It only refreshes its contents when I actually go up and click into the Sent ...
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Encrypted email archive with encryption on client, not server
Even though most of my email is coming in un-encrypted, I want to store it on a server somewhere in encrypted form. Is there any solution available that encrypts on the client so that a compromised ...
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Access email via Outlook 2007 and iPhone
I have a mail account with a webhost that is accessible via POP3 and IMAP.
Outlook 2007 on the PC is set up via IMAP.
I also have an iPhone 3G on which I want to access the mail.
The iPhone was set ...
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Can offlineimap do a one-way sync?
I love the free webmail services out there but hate having years of mail tied up in one of these products.
I'm looking for a way to cache a mailbox locally but still be able to access it from a ...
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How to fix incorrect dates in Apple Mail after migrating from IMAP to Exchange?
My company has just transitioned from an IMAP provider to a Microsoft Exchange server. As part of the transition, I moved all of my old messages from the various IMAP folders into corresponding ...
