I am having an issue with importing my pst file back into my email account. Unfortunately my domain got deleted from my hosting company and I lost my email account as well. Luckily I had the emails on my Outlook as my email was setup as an IMAP account and I managed to back this up before activating the same email address and password.
Once I done that I then tried to import the .pst file back into my inbox and all my folders started showing up. The inbox then gets synchronised and then after 10 mins the folders and everything disappears.
I spoke to the hosting company and they spent 2 hours on a screen share without resolving and told me to get in touch with Microsoft as they think its an Outlook issue.
The file itself is a 1.4Gb file and I tried one folder at a time as well, but this disappears as well. I don't know if its because I had a IMAP account and the mails were actually stored on the server side rather than on my computer. Although I have made a backup and the size tells me its populated, I just don't now how else to resolve this.
Firstly, it does not sound like a programming question.
Secondly, try to disconnect your machine from the internet (so that IMAP does not sync), add a new PST store, and copy all folders from the IMAP store to PST.
After you sync the IMAP store, you can drag the folders back from PST to IMAP.
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This seems like a fairly obvious thing but I can't figure out how to do it and am hoping one of your geniuses can help me out!
We have a Gmail email account and then a ticket system that checks that account and sends an auto-reply to the sender saying that the email was received. This is checked via POP3 but can also be done via IMAP if necessary.
What I want is this: For certain messages, I'd like to file them immediately in Gmail and have them go to a special folder and have them NOT be checked by the ticket system. That's all.
I tried creating a filter in Gmail to move them, skip the inbox, mark as read, all of that. They still get picked up by the ticket system.
I thought POP3 only checked the INBOX on any server, so I expected that if I skipped the inbox then it would not be accessible. This doesn't seem to be the case.
Please let me know if there are any tricks I can do.
Thank you so much!
Ben
The problem that you are running into is that when connecting to GMail via POP3, you are actually accessing the "All Mails" folder and not the Inbox, so filtering the messages does not remove them from the list presented to your client via POP3.
Switching to IMAP should solve this problem, however, since you'd be able to open whatever folder you wanted.
I have a client who had a Godaddy/secureserver email account, and several office computers on Outlook connecting to it through a Microsoft Server. She was having issues with some emails not coming through to Outlook (but you could go into webmail and see them coming to the server). The guy who had set up her server was no longer around, and I'm not experienced with exchange server settings, so just told her to not have Outlook go through the server but connect directly to secureserver.
So I backed everything up as .pst, totally deleted everything else from Outlook, starting it fresh, and then imported the .pst. But now all this weird stuff is happening with emails not sending, emails showing up and then disappearing, and the one consistent thing I see happening is an attempt to connect to the exchange server, which is baffling me. Is something embedded in the .pst telling it to connect to the old server? If so, how do I save her (thousands and thousands of) emails organized in dozens of folders without bringing back in the exchange settings?
I can confirm you that there's nothing in the PST referencing her old exchange server. The only thing that I can think of is that all the recipients (including sender) email address format, when exporting emails to a PST, are still in the format X500 instead of SMTP. So if you export things to the pst and use this pst outside of this particular exchange server you will not be able to reply or keep track of existing conversations.
I suggest you wipe out all email profiles in Control Panel -> Mail, restart computer and create a new email profile if you did not tried that already
The problem is：
I used to have a xxx#shaw.ca accounts and have some important emails stored locally using Outlook. Right now, I am switching to another ISP, which means I can't access the old email server any more. Can I restore my old emails into another account（like gmail) or just let them show in the outlook UI?
THANK YOU for any help or hints.
If your new ISP gives you IMAP access you can easily move your email.
If you haven't yet done, configure an account with IMAP. How to do that depends on your ISP.
For gmail you should follow this Google guide.
Suppose your new ISP is Gmail.
Once you've done that, you would probably create a new folder to store your emails.
You can now select all your local emails that you want to copy/move and drag&drop into your newly folder.
Wait until it finish the copy (time depends on how fast is your connection and how heavy are all your emails).
You're done!
I've recently switched from using Outlook.com for my business emails to Gmail for Business.
Does anyone know how I can migrate my old emails in Outlook.com to Gmail? I can't find any import or export functions on either site.
There is mention of using TrueSwitch, but that has been deactivated. Note: I need to migrate from Outlook.COM, not the desktop Outlook. Any assistance is much appreciated. Thanks!
You can do this if you own a computer: connect both accounts to your favorite e-mail client (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird) via IMAP, and move or copy the folders from one account to the other. You'll also need a decent connection if you have a lot of data (your e-mail client downloads the old mailbox's contents to your computer and uploads it back to the new one).
As #askchipbug says:
Install Thunderbird
Edit > Account settings
Bottom left Account actions > Add mail account
Leave configuration as IMAP (remote folders)
Repeat for your second account.
Voila - both accounts AND folders appear in Thunderbird
In your former account in Thunderbird, highlight the folders you want to copy
Drag them to your other account
Have a cup of tea while the emails/folders all copy over
Note: It may take a while for all your emails to be seen in all folders by Thunderbird...
1) install thunderbird, like the man says.
2) edit > account settings
3) Bottom left account actions > add mail account
4) here's the kicker - leave configuration as IMAP ( remote folders)
5) repeat for your second account.
6) Voila - both accounts AND folders appear in thunderbird
7) In thunderbird, highlight the folders you want to copy
8) drag them to your other account.
9) have a cuppa while the emails/folders all copy over.
note: it took a while for all my emails to be seen in all folders by thunderbird...
I am about to migrate all of my email accounts to using the IMAP protocol instead of the POP protocol. The problem I have is that the folders I currently have in Outlook have email in them from multiple accounts. So for instance I have a folder called 'Enquiries' which includes emails from 'enquiries#company1.com' and emails from 'enquiries#company2.com'
Is there a way to combine folders from multiple IMAP email accounts that are on my server? Or do I have to have separate folders for each account? Can I have one large 'PST' file on my server to hold all of my email accounts?
Additionally, if I open up Outlook on my laptop, will I be able to see all of my emails from the past even if I lose my internet connections? Is this what 'Idle' mode is for?
IMAP supports sharing. But folders belong to a user. So it's unusual to want to do what you have described.
If you want the mail to appear in the same folder, I'm pretty sure you will need to configure your mail server(s) to direct all incoming mail for those two addresses into the same user/folder.
PST files are not an IMAP thing - they're a proprietary Microsoft thing, so no, you can't do that with IMAP.
As for lost internet connection, this should be straight-forward for you to test. Simply disable your internet and see what happens. Try it with messages and folders that you have and haven't previously opened.
This Microsoft article about working offline makes me think that you won't be able to view existing messages.