![]() With your primary address, you will have a lot less mail to deal with. If you’ve been using throwaway addresses and forwards (which you should have been doing all along), make sure all of those extra addresses end up at an address like Leave that non-essential mail in POP where it will be sorted automatically as it comes in and put in all your custom local folders. ![]() The first thing to do is to separate essential email from non-essential email. So if I can successfully make the POP to IMAP move, so anyone can. Fortunately, the vast majority just need to be filed for future reference. I receive at least 600 emails per day, not counting SPAM. You can smoothly move to IMAP for your important mail. All is not lost, even for email power users. If like me, you have a lot of custom sorting routines built in to Apple Mail, you certainly don’t want to give up those two hundred odd handbuilt rules.īut have no fear. Working with the web interface is getting old as it means going through the same email twice, once online and once locally to get everything put away in the right folders. Making sure you always have local up to date email with you is a hassle (you may be doing it by carrying a FireWire boot drive with you everywhere, but that doesn’t work on the netbook or the Hackintosh or the iPhone or the iPad or your Nokia N97mini either. Now however you may have a Mac Mini, a Macbook, Macbook Pro 17” portable desktop, a Windows 7 netbook, a Nokia N97 mini smartphone with keyboard, an iPhone and an iPad as well as a photo studio Hackintosh. what’s on your computer is getting backed up by you so you have physical control of the data.your mail doesn’t spend much time on the cloud so there’s less possibility of it being read unless someone is actively tracking you.You prefer the security of local mail on POP for the following reasons: You’ve probably also heard horror stories of unsynced and lost email from those who took the jump to IMAP in the 90’s. If like me, you are an old Eudora hand, you probably used POP reliably for decades before moving to Apple Mail and the possibility of troublefree IMAP use.Īpple Mail Setup IMAP: To Take the Leap Or Not?
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