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!
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I am hosting the email for one of my domains at Gmail. I then run an IMAP client on my local computer to read and send email. Totally standard.
I now want to move the hosting for that domain to another email provider, where I will again run an IMAP client to deal with the mail.
Question: What happens to all the messages that are currently on Gmail? I THINK that they will stay in place, and I'll be able to access them via gmail.com and/or a Gmail app. But maybe not? Maybe Gmail will somehow find out about the MX change and decide that it should delete them all, because Reasons. Or it can't find the messages on its own server because the MX has changed, and so won't let me see them. Or something. In any case, losing access to these old messages would be Very Bad.
So, which is it? Will the world behave the way that I'm 99% sure that it will, such that I'll still be able to go to gmail.com and read the old messages after the switch? Or do I need to move the old messages somewhere else before making the hosting switch? Thanks for helping with my paranoia!
Google doesn't care what domain you use to route emails towards your Gmail inbox. If you change your domain to use another email provider, you will still have your existing Gmail inbox, until you shut down your Gmail account. So any existing emails in your Gmail inbox will be left untouched.
The same goes for any other hosting provider.
I want to be able to read my email on several devices, preferably with Thunderbird. The process of reading it removes it from the server, downloading it onto whatever device I'm using. I would like to be able to have my email downloaded to my private server and be able to access it from any of my devices, preferably with "new mail" notifications being available on whatever device reads it first.
I thought I might be able to store it with LDAP, but I think that applies to only the address books.
Can someone outline what I would need to do this?
Thank you!
You probably have your accounts configured as POP3 with activated deletion when downloading. The most common way is to use IMAP instead (although it is also possible to configure POP3 to not delete e-mails on the server). Most clients will not delete e-mails from the server then by default. Please see your provider's instructions fot the correct IMAP settings.
For Thunderbird, see http://mzl.la/1ApHlPG on how to migrate to IMAP and http://mzl.la/1ApHiDr for more information on IMAP.
LDAP is not directly related to your e-mails.
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
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.