Questions tagged [imap]
IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol and is the other e-mail protocol along with POP.
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curl only works with -u but not with -n
I can't get where is the error
This works like a charm:
~$ curl -u 'foo@yahoo.com:123' imaps://imap.mail.yahoo.com:993 -X 'STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES)'
But this don't:
~$ curl -n imaps://imap.mail.yahoo....
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What happens if I move folders into an IMAP account in Outlook?
A friend of mine is using Outlook (I think 2019) on his Windows PC. He asked me to add another mail account to his Outlook instance, which I did (as IMAP). He already has another account in the ...
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Zimbra inbox unable to receive emails from other servers
I have setup a zimbra server on an ubuntu VM, opened up the necessary ports according to this tutorial.
I am able to receive emails from gmail or outlook using other email domains.
However, no emails ...
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Cannot connect to an email server from a home Wi-Fi
First off, I'm not entirely sure this is the right Stack page to post this into, but hopefully, I'll be redirected to the proper page if not.
A friend of mine had problems connecting to an email ...
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Thunderbird IMAP - Keep the emails when the account gets closed OR back them up
I realise the solution exists out there but I'm confused by all the vocabulary.
Situation: I have two email accounts that are about to be closed (professional email accounts, end of contract). I would ...
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How can I configure Thunderbird to prevent it from automatically deleting messages from its local mailbox when they're deleted on the server?
I've got a scenario where I need to retain a backup of an IMAP email account in Thunderbird when it even has email deleted from it on the server. In other words, I just always want it to keep ...
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What does the presence of two different msf files to the same mbox file imply?
I have set up an IMAP account in Thunderbird version 102.8.0 on a Windows 10 pc. A folder named A has been created in this account in Thunderbird, containing several mails. Accordingly, an mbox file ...
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Will email(s) be restored by the IMAP sync process after removal of the corresponding message file of an IMAP account from a Thunderbird profile?
If one did the following on a client pc with an IMAP account:
In Thunderbird: Have the synchronisation button (see "Synchronization & Storage" menu) of this account toggled on (so all ...
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Outlook Calendar/Contacts Export to PST
We have a large number of imap to office365 migrations to complete.users currently use outlook for their email. O365 migration doesn’t migrate calendar/contacts etc so we are manually exporting from ...
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Thunderbird - Emails disappear when transferring between accounts
I am currently transferring all my business-related emails from my personal gmail account to a new business gmail account using Thunderbird.
While this worked well with some emails/folders, at other ...
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OpenSSL connection to an imap server over explicit port works, but fails on implicit port
I have a mail server to which I'm connecting from a ruby application using protocol IMAP.
But I get an error in rails console:
Loading dev environment (Rails 7.0.4)
irb(main):001:0> @connection = ...
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Folder Sync with PST file when switching from POP to IMAP in Outlook 365
I'm using Outlook 365
I had Outlook connected via POP. I wanted to switch to IMAP.
I created a PST file with all my emails.
I then setup Outlook to use IMAP. Works fine.
I then imported my PST file. ...
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How long should I wait before fetching the "SENT" mailbox after sending an e-mail?
I have made my e-mail client immediately fetch new e-mails from the IMAP server (only opening the "Sent"/"Sent mail" mailbox) right after a new e-mail has been sent.
To my (slight) ...
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outlook 365 - restore from backup file and only IMAP synchronize recent emails
I have a web email account with over 100,000 emails, and about 30 folders dating back 18 years.
I created an Outlook .pst backup of the account from my old computer which was running Outlook 2010, and ...
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sending mail on a windows 10 machine using Thunderbird fails
About a month ago, my wife's computer running Windows 10 with all of the latest patches,lost the ability to send mail with attachments. Generally if the attachment is rather small in size, the ...
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Why are some emails marked read and others unread on arrival using IMAP in Thunderbird?
On advice of my provider, I recently switched to IMAP on my desktop but left POP3 on my phone and elsewhere. Incoming email seems to randomly switch from read to unread when it appears on my desktop. ...
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mutt: keybind to run external script just before imap-fetch-mail
I use offlineimap to manage receiving mail from my IMAP server. I use folders in mutt which offlineimap populates to view them. I would love to be able to bind a key to run the offlineimap external ...
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Windows Mail error 0x80070003
I am currently having trouble configuring the Windows mail application, when I click on the option to add a Google account it gives me the error code 0x80070003. I found an alternative however with ...
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can't send/receive emails anymore in Outlook
I'm using Outlook as my email client and have an IMAP acccount. I had to change my password and now send/receive emails doesn't work anymore. I updated my account and I know the new password is ...
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How could I save emails from outlook IMAP client on local machine?
Unfortunately, we have no access to our mail server anymore because of some reasons and we have no backup.
The clients used to connect via outlook IMAP. The emails are still in their mailboxes.
My ...
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How to use Outlook (New Look) on MacOS with a local dockerized Dovecot?
I have a problem similar to this other Super User question about using Outlook on macOS and a local Dovecot running within its own Docker container. The original poster on that other question self-...
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How can I download a whole mailbox from Thunderbird to a local folder?
I am trying to back up a whole mail server to a local folder in Thunderbird, where there are many subfolders. Thunderbird is connected over IMAP, running from a gridhost server. When I attempt to copy ...
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Thunderbird mail filters no longer work automatically after Google Workspace migration
I have a number of mail filters set up for my work Google account, in Thunderbird (v91.9.1 on NixOS 22.05). I've used Thunderbird for years and these filters are nothing special: they worked just fine....
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Can't register IMAP university e-mail student account on Windows 11 and Outlook app
I'm a computer science student at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, and I'm trying to add the university mail to Outlook app on my smartphone and the Mail app on Windows 11.
Somewhere in the past,...
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How to restore emails from deleted email account in Thunderbird
I recently graduated from college and have lost access to my school email account.
However, I accidently deleted my school email account from Thunderbird. Fortunately, I haven't checked the option to ...
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How to combine local mailboxes and imap ones in mutt?
I used to read my email with neomutt and get them from server with fetchmail. For a time, I switched to using mostly my webmail, but now I'd like to combine mail archives managed by mutt and ...
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Gmail in latest microsoft outlook: can i have both the ability to snooze emails and sort emails into other accounts?
I am more or less forced to use microsoft outlook by my employer, and recently set up the latest version with both my institutional email account (a microsoft exchange account) as well as my gmail and ...
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about sending mail from windows mail (gmail) from a linked account
I am facing the following problem while using the windows mail app: I have set up my Gmail account on the mail app and I receive all the emails as well as send mails using my Gmail address. But I have ...
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In Thunderbird, how to make Quick Filter "body" search on server?
Thunderbird 102.3.1 (64-bit) on Fedora.
I've set up my server to offer server-side full-text search (FTS) including an index for much faster searching.
Thunderbird's Quick Filter search box is ...
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How to access IMAP Inbox Offline in Thunderbird and ensure that all message on IMAP server remain untouched
I need to make my E-mail account available for offline consultation with IMAP in Thunderbird (Ubuntu 20.04). I identified this tutorial saying to check "Keep messages for this account on this ...
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Moving / Copying ¨All mail¨ label messages to INBOX label
in order to close a GMail account from Google Workspace (of mine) I need to get a copy of ¨All email¨ label messages to the INBOX label so I can move them easily to another GMail account with extra ...
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how would mail sending and retrieval work with SMTP and IMAP when both protocols have their own dedicated servers
How would a mail server be able to have a separate SMTP server and IMAP server, thus not have them both in one server?
I don't get how that'd work if possible.
I mean imagine if I'd (user@gmail.com) ...
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What happens to my IMAP emails when my account with my webhost gets deleted?
The situation:
I have an account with BlueHost, and I use IMAP/Outlook for my emails. On my BlueHost account I have an option (Cloud Performance Hosting) I want to get rid of. BlueHost says that it's ...
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Migrating Thunderbird Gmail account from POP to IMAP is messing up nested folder/label structure?
Following the instructions to migrate a POP account to IMAP, the step for dragging and dropping (nested) folders over to the IMAP account is producing a different result than in the original POP ...
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Thunderbird Email ver 102.02 change email properties : Location. Recover previous emails
I have an issue that occurred since last upgrade to version 102.02. One of my accounts is no longer able to access the mail server and none of my emails show up.
I noticed that in the location ...
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Outlook 365 Fill
I got a new PC, and wanted to transfer my email folders there. I went to my old PC that has Outlook, and then I exported my email folders into 3 .PST files. I don't know why it had to go into 3 ...
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Gmail / Outlook/ Imap issues
I was pretty content with Win7 so I stayed on it, using Outlook 2007 to bring my Gmail messages into Outlook using POP3 where rules would sort them into various folders. I could also go to gmail.com ...
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Uploading mails using mbsync (isync project)
I am merging a number of mailboxes into a single mailbox using mbsync.
I have successfully downloaded the first mailbox using mbsync to a local folder on my machine, and I am now trying to upload this ...
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How to add my OVH account to Outlook Microsoft 365 Apps?
I have been using MS Outlook on Windows as a mail client for my OVH email without any problem for years.
Recently, I had a sync issue which is not related to OVH (my email works on OVH webmail).
I ...
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Mailboxes on new server don't have INBOX prefix. How can I add it?
My web host moved my account from a cPanel system to a DirectAdmin system. They seem to have messed up my mailbox hierarchy in the move.
In Apple Mail I've always had the IMAP prefix set to INBOX. But ...
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Miscrosoft Outlook 2021 cannot create Outlook data file error
I am in the process of setting up Outlook 2021 desktop version to access Gmail account. after a few successes, then all the sudden, no more gmail account can be added. the error message is: ..cannot ...
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configuring email software to recieve and send sms
I don't have a cell phone but have a cellular modem (Rocket Stick by Sierra Wireless) that has sms sending and receiving capability. It has its own cell number. I am trying to configure Thunderbird ...
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How can I make Outlook 365 (the desktop app) work reliably with IMAP?
I have dozens of cases of Outlook + IMAP where I see this behavior:
Initially Outlook works fine but after some weeks it stops syncing.
When Outlook stops syncing the same account keeps syncing just
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Cleanup duplicate mails after fetchmail messed up the fetchids list
I use fetchmail since years, to get my mails from a free private email provider, always with the "keep" option. Now, due to an update in mailu, the fetchids file got messed up and I have ...
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Make Thunderbird request certificate on port 993, not 443
I am trying to create a certificate exception in Thunderbird, for a specific server <servername> (I am specifically asking not to be lectured about how it would be better to have an acceptable ...
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How to get Postfix and Dovecot working with an existing Kerberos realm?
I now have a Kerberos realm like MYDOMAIN.CH, an admin server and a principal of root/admin, as well as the realm master password and the root/admin principal password. Now I want to get Kerberos ...
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Thunderbird - how to minimize local storage
I work in an office where I occasionally need to check the main office email. However, I don't want or need any email from the account other than when I check it manually.
At the moment I have ...
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Edit raw source of a sent/received email in an IMAP box with Thunderbird
I connect a Gmail mailbox in IMAP with Thunderbird.
I can view an email's raw source with the "More" button > View Source.
How can I edit the source of an already sent/received email? (...
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Download gmail emails before a certain date to MS Outlook through IMAP
I am currently using MS Outlook to connect to my gmail account through IMAP. I would like to download all gmail emails before the year 2015.
Can this be done?
I am using Microsoft Outlook 2019. Thank ...
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How to recover old emails in a Thunderbird local folder
All of this is on Windows 10, with Thunderbird 91.5.1.
So, I was cleaning up an IMAP account that has a pretty low quota, and I selected a large number of emails and dragged them to my local folder. ...
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