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.
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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.
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!
We use Thunderbird as our email client in the office and use IMAP (through Google Apps). But it takes some time to sync folders and emails because we have created more than 300 folders according to shipments and customer names. Further we need to keep increase folders in the future as well.
So can you please tell me a good way or an email client to handle these emails ?. We have configured this email account in to about 8 PCs. Thank you in advance.
300 folders and "1000+" e-mails is nothing. I'm behind Trojitá, a fast Qt IMAP e-mail client, so this is what I recommend, but any decent software shall work just fine for you anyway.
That said, this is probably OT for stackoverflow.
I am using OWA on IE8 and am do not have any email client like outlook installed. We just access email in the browser using OWA.
Is there a script (maybe a scraper) that backs up the emails?
How do I go about writing such a script, is there a OWA API?
I googled a lot but every solution first syncs OWA to exchange or outlook or some other email client and then backs it up. I do not have that luxury.
I have python installed, so a simple email client script written in python can be helpful too, if it can somehow be configured to logina nd read emails from OWA.
Thanks !
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ can be used as a proxy to expose OWA folders via IMAP and POP3.
The main goal of DavMail is to provide standard compliant protocols in front of proprietary Exchange. This means .. IMAP to browse messages on the server in any folder, POP to retrieve inbox messages only, .. Thus any standard compliant client can be used with Microsoft Exchange.
Then question becomes how to make backup of IMAP or POP3 server.
It's not possible to export mails in bulk from OWA, as far as I know.
As you suggested the only way would be using Outlook..