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One solution for IMAP message upload issues in Mail Apps
I've been using Mail for a long while with POP accounts. Recently I decided to stop using POP and switch all my accounts to IMAP. I simply disabled my POP accounts (not deleted at all yet) and set up the IMAP ones. Everything worked perfectly until I decided to move important messages from my Mac to the IMAP accounts (you do ithis in the same way as if you where moving messages between different mailboxes). The problem was that moving messages wasn't reliable -- sometimes messages got uploaded, while other times they became grayed out, but nothing happened.

After trying several things, including moving them one-by-one (which didn't work either), I found that rebuilding my local mailboxes seems to fix the problem -- as I write this, Mail has uploaded (moved) 350 of 870 messages without any problems.

As rebuilding is a per-mailbox thing, I've had to rebuild each local mailbox. I'm guessing that this problem comes from the fact that I've been moving my mailboxes around between four machines in the last year.
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One solution for IMAP message upload issues in Mail
Authored by: gmayer0 on Nov 13, '08 07:08:48AM

one note to add: your pop account may have been clearing the server of messages and your "popped" email in your client may be greater than than the limit of your server: example Gmail's limit is 10GB or something and private host may have 1GB limit. So if you loaded your 1.5GB PST/Mailbox "up" into IMAP it will likely crash or worse loose mail.

The only reason I fear this is because I tried to "upgrade someone to Exchange :(" and their 1.8GB PST was completely lost when dragged because of the 1GB limit of "1and1.com" hosting. Don't get me started, my mistake...

Always backup your mail before performing any tasks INCLUDING creating/deleting MAILAPP accounts. Your mail can and will disappear when you remove the account: and it's gone... really gone... Cause Apples are friendly and helpful.



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One solution for IMAP message upload issues in Mail
Authored by: ianeiloart on Nov 14, '08 03:11:22AM

Apple Mail has a known bug when trying to copy messages that don't have "Message-id" headers. All messages *should* have such headers, but in practice some don't. Apple Mail seems to be coded with the assumption that all messages do have these headers, and several things break when they're missing.

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Ian Eiloart



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