Questions tagged [imap]
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is the other e-mail protocol along with POP.
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How do I import/recover/repair an Outlook 2013 .ost file into a new instance of Outlook 2013?
Note: This is not a Microsoft Exchange problem, but an Outlook 2013 one, and even though it might seem as a duplicate of a previously asked one, please pay attention to the end of the post.
A little ...
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Limiting the number (by date) of IMAP headers fetched in mutt
I'm using mutt to open an IMAP folder (gmail) that has a lot of messages (hundreds of thousands), so I'd like to tell mutt to fetch only messages less than 1 week old (for example), since fetching ...
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How does one properly backup/export Thunderbird/IMAP mails?
I use Thunderbird for my mail on a lot of IMAP servers.
Currently, I have set my offline settings to include every folder and go to offline mode every few days. That should mean I always have all ...
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Why do my email drafts linger in my Outlook drafts folder?
Whenever I type an email or a reply to an email, the email draft remains in my drafts folder, even after sending them. This is really confusing for me, since it makes me think that I haven't sent them ...
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Thunderbird forgets tags in IMAP mails immediately after adding them
I hope this Stack Exchange site is the right one.
Since a few weeks we are experiencing unexpected behavior with the tag/flag handling of Thunderbird. After assigning a tag to a mail, Thunderbird is ...
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My IMAP account occasionally gives a timeout error
I've got a few email addresses setup in Apple Mail. An iCloud address, one of my internet provider and one of my hosting company. The last one is giving me problems.
Every now and then when I go to ...
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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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Can I configure Thunderbird 3 to refresh the folder list for an Exchange IMAP account?
Background: When used as an IMAP client against Gmail, Thunderbird 3 (may be the case in v2 also, not sure) will refresh it's list of folders (the folders correspond to Gmail labels) when you do "...
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mutt-1.7.0: how to display Thunderbird labels / keywords / tags?
I am aware that standardized e-mail labels, keywords, tags is a mess. But here goes anyway.
Gentoo mutt comes with https://www.neomutt.org/feature/keywords patch.
My IMAP server is dovecot-2.2.
:...
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How to migrate emails to a secondary imap server preserving folder structure
The subject line could also read: "how to setup an email archiving system that preserves folder structure and tags".
I am reaching the quota of my main email provider (imap1) and I would like to ...
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mutt: finding mailboxes with status O (old) unread messages
Setup: I have a mailserver with mutt installed. The server also has the dovecot IMAP server installed. I read mail both on the server using mutt, and using IMAP clients (eg on my phone). Mail is ...
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Auto Archive Email for IMAP linked account
I have a user that has 11 GB of email. It is from 12 years of use. He is accessing his email via IMAP and Outlook 2010. When synchronizing folders it takes forever. I would like to speed up the ...
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Issue with Amazon Workmail – looking for POP/IMAP workaround
We use Amazon Workmail for our email. I know it's a preview but it generally works well. Our company also picked up helpdesk software that needs to import email on the same domain using POP or IMAP. ...
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Thunderbird hanging on 'Sending login information' with Gmail IMAP
We have a couple of Windows 7 desktops running the latest version of Thunderbird. They are trying to connect to Gmail via IMAP, which has worked fine up until today.
One of the desktops now seems to ...
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How to automatically move mail from POP account to IMAP account using mutt
I have two mailboxes, one that is accessible exclusively via POP3 ([email protected]) & a second one that supports IMAP ([email protected]). The SMTP server that belongs to the IMAP account can send mail ...
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Getmail: Can it remove deleted messages?
I understand that getmail can download messages via IMAP. But what
about deleted messages? Can I set up getmail to remove deleted messages
also from the local disk?
Background: I’m looking for a ...
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Is it possible to have Thunderbird-like local folders in claws-mail?
I like using claws-mail with an IMAP email account, but I need a way to move mail from my size-limited inbox to a local folder and still be able to search through it. Is this possible using a local ...
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How to automatically get mail from work Exchange server into Gmail
My work recently turned off forwarding of email coming in to our work addresses (grrr) but I am addicted to the gmail user interface and to my collection of all my mails in gmail. Can anyone suggest ...
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Outlook: Default calendar for meeting request
I have Outlook 2013 and it synchronizes two calendars from outlook.com.
Now, I am receiving meetings requests via email from another IMAP account.
How can I choose, which calendar will be the ...
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Bizarre IMAP issue with Outlook 2013
Have a client that is using Outlook 2013 with a GoDaddy hosted IMAP email account. This was recently setup and they created a number of new folders by right clicking on the left side near Inbox and ...
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Thunderbird import to Gmail excludes many emails
What could cause an import to Gmail in Thunderbird to exclude many (i.e., more than 1000 emails not copied in a folder with 1284 emails) that were in the original account?
I am imagining things like ...
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Move to Local Trash when deleting IMAP messages in Thunderbird
I have tried to find a solution for this for a while now without luck. Wanted to check if there already is an add-on or easy hack before I attempt to write my own.
In my opinion this must be quite a ...
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Quickstep in Outlook 2013 Gmail IMAP account doesn't execute "mark as read" instruction
I am using Office 2013, and I have a Gmail account set up via IMAP. I have created an "Archive" quickstep in Outlook with 2 instructions:
mark item as read
move to folder "All Mail"
If I execute ...
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Outlook 2010 won't allow IMAP folders to be searched
In Outlook 2010 on a computer running Windows 7 Professional, I can search for email messages in non-IMAP folders, but not those in my two IMAP folders (SENT and INBOX). However, this feature on ...
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Outlook 2003 not working with GMail IMAP
I am trying to configure Outlook Express 2003 with GMail (IMAP enabled)
However my Outlook is giving me this error:
How can I rectify this problem?
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Mail Server and Google Mail
Issue
I have just set up an email server using Postfix, POP3 and IMAP, following the instructions listed here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixBasicSetupHowto
Sending/receiving mail locally ...
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macOS Mail delay when fetching from Yahoo via IMAP – related to “NO [LIMIT] CAPABILITY Rate limit hit” message?
I have long used Apple’s standard Mail.app client for OS X and macOS, since it is, to me, overall by far the best mail client in existence. For several years now, however, it’s annoyed me that it’s ...
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Letting IMAP server know that Alpine is fine with UTF-8
I am using Alpine with a local IMAP server. For some messages, I get the following "advisory message" in Alpine:
***********************************************************
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Thunderbird duplicating messages with GMail IMAP
This old post says the issues with Gmail IMAP and Thunderbird are solved, but I'm still getting duplicates using Thunderbird 68.4.1 on Xubuntu.
This more recent post shows another user with the ...
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Thunderbird saves multiple local copies of emails that are tagged with multiple gmail labels
I have Thunderbird v. 68.5.0 set up with a gmail-account via IMAP.
Unlike claimed here thunderbird-and-gmail, in my case Thunderbird saves an email multiple times if that email has multiple labels ...
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Automatically remove old e-mail messages with Thunderbird (from IMAP server only, not locally)
Given
IMAP E-Mail provider/server with storage quota
Thunderbird e-mail client
I'd like to automatically remove the oldest messages from the server only (and keep them locally).
But Thunderbird ...
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Downloading only gmail's INBOX using offlineIMAP
So my offlineimap.conf looks like this:
[general]
accounts = Gmail-raub
[Account Gmail-raub]
localrepository = Gmaillocal-mine
remoterepository = Gmailserver-mine
synclabels = yes
# This header is ...
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How to free space locally from .thunderbird imap.gmail.com folder?
I use Thunderbird with imap email and a gmail account on both a laptop and desktop. My desktop system, though, has severely limited SSD boot HD space, now with 100mb free. [Large pictures, videos, ...
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Find out IMAP and SMTP settings for an email address
I have an email address [email protected]. I currently access my emails through a browser at mail.company.com, which uses the Outlook web app. I would like to be able to access them through other ...
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Auto sync Windows 10 Mail app
I have a problem with Mail app on a Windows 10 system (updated from Windows 8).
The sync settings just don't work on any email accounts and (of course) in the calendar app. I can open mail app up and ...
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Thunderbird Slow at Receiving Emails
I've been recently having some problems with Thunderbird (38.2.0). I'm using Gmail and Hermes (Cambridge Uni's email service) IMAP/SMTP. I receive emails through, but they are often delayed. For ...
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Is Exchange faster than IMAP?
I have subscribed to a new email provider that provides both "Exchange" and IMAP.
I am familiar with IMAP so I configured it on OS X Mail (Mail.app), but it is extremely slow, with occasional ...
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Mutt - Missing emails
I switched from Thunderbird to Mutt after a long time of googling on Mutt. I do not use anything like offlineimap or msmtp (should I?) etc, even though I would like to give it a try but I haven't ...
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Outlook sync IMAP folders
I currently have IMAP hosting from SolidShellSecurity, LLC and not Exchange if that means much. I wanted to save money and just go with IMAP because that was free over $10/mo per mail box with ...
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Rename $label1-5 in Thunderbird so they become tags
Thunderbird stores five special tags as $label1, $label2, ..., $label5 and then internally associates a (somewhat fixed) name to those (Important, Work, ...). In an IMAP context, it syncs these as ...
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Transfer multiple emails from an IMAP server to GMail?
Is there a good way of transfering an IMAP directory structure and their emails to GMail? (imap)
I moved from my own IMAP server to Google Apps Business earlier this week and I'd need to transfer a ...
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In a Gnus IMAP group, can I mark an item read and expirable at the same time?
The various "read" marks all seem to be mutually exclusive, such that I cannot do this. When talking to the Gmail IMAP server, Gnus' "expirable" mark will archive an item out of my inbox, but also ...
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Messages removed from Outlook 2013 are still preset in All Mail folder in Gmail (Google Apps)
Currently I have only 2% free space left on my Gmail account (google apps). That's why I decided to create locally saved archive (.pst file) in my Outlook 2013.
All emails older than 24 months were ...
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How to show my replies in threads when checking gmail with mutt via imap?
With my local maildir, I acomplish this by storing replies in the same folder as mail received. But Gmail stores sent and received messages in separate folders (labels). I've tried setting spoolfile ...
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Why does courier imap stall on access?
I have the following situation: I have a home server running debian stable that handles my emails. It is a getmei/postfix/courier combination. On my desktop PC I use debian stable with kde and as mail ...
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Can Thunderbird delete a large number ( 100k ) of emails from an IMAP folder?
I have a folder on an imap server which contains ~100k emails and trying to select them all and press delete seems to crash thunderbird (7.
Is there any way i can delete these messages from ...
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Dovecot configuration with multi-account offlineimap syncing
I use offlineimap to synchronize several IMAP accounts into the following directory structure where each AccntN is a synchronized remote IMAP account in Maildir format.
$HOME/Mails/Accnt1
$HOME/Mails/...
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Multiple identities with only one account on Outlook 2007
I have many (~40) domains that are used for business purposes. Those domains are hosted on a SMTP/IMAP server, separated from our exchange server.
Right now, I have one IMAP account for each domain, ...
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Auto-archive IMAP mail folders on OS X
I am trying to achieve the following. Download all messages from mail server(and remove downloaded messages from server). Downloaded messages should be in a local mailbox preserving folder structure ...
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Email Attachment File Timestamps
Using Outlook or any other email client, I have noticed that when saving attachment files from emails via IMAP the created and moddified timestamps are set to the timestamp of the operation. Whereas ...