RE: [WinMac] outlook express - mac to pc email
John Santora(bbstenor[at]home.com)
Thu, 6 May 1999 11:15:04 -0500
Jerry Flatto wrote on Wednesday, May 05, 1999 11:48 AM
>
> This may sound like a stupid question, but I am good at those. :-)
>
> I am presently using Eudora 4.2 for the Mac. All my email is stored
> on my hard drive on the Mac. How do I uploa the mail messages from my
> hard drive to the web-based IMAP4 mail account?
>
Uh, oh -- I *knew* this would get technical! <g> I'm just a CPA, so don't
flame me if some of this isn't totally correct.
IMAP differs from POP3 in that all messages are stored on the server, even
after you've read them. It's ideal for people who access their e-mail from
different locations, or different machines, and want to maintain a complete
history. Or for corporate environments where automatic backups of the mail
server ensure that a complete history is maintained regardless of what an
individual user does to his computer.
I'm not familiar with Eudora, but if you can have 2 or more e-mail accounts
(i.e., different ISPs) active at once (which MS Outlook Express allows;
Netscape Messenger doesn't) then you should be able to simply drag-and-drop
messages from your hard drive's mail folders as they appear in
Eudora/Outlook onto the Inbox (or a new subfolder) of your IMAP account.
If you can't have 2 accounts active in Eudora, then you may have a problem.
Eudora may have a way to convert mail from POP to IMAP, or at the very least
to archive or export messages. If so, archive the messages you want to
upload from within your POP account, then switch to the new IMAP account and
de-archive (import, whatever) the messages. They *should* be automatically
uploaded to the server if all is set up properly.
I'll gladly defer to someone with more IMAP/Eudora experience, though...
Good luck, again!
John Santora
Toronto, Canada
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