Downloading IMAP Emails

[Donavan Eason]

Is there anyways to actually download the emails from an IMAP account to
your computer? I have setup IMAP email through Outlook 2007, but emails
still accumulate in my actual email online even as they are downloaded to
Outlook. Eventually, Outlook will download a message from my IMAP account
that says my account is almost full. Then, when I look at the account I
notice that there are no messages there, even still, it says that my account
is like 95% capacity. Then, after about 3 minutes on the email online,
suddenly, my account goes to 0%. Can you say weird? I just wish it would
download straight to Outlook and bypass my online IMAP account altogether.

 

[Gordon]

Is there anyways to actually download the emails from an IMAP account to
your computer? I have setup IMAP email through Outlook 2007, but emails
still accumulate in my actual email online even as they are downloaded to
Outlook. Eventually, Outlook will download a message from my IMAP account
that says my account is almost full. Then, when I look at the account I
notice that there are no messages there, even still, it says that my
account is like 95% capacity. Then, after about 3 minutes on the email
online, suddenly, my account goes to 0%. Can you say weird? I just wish it
would download straight to Outlook and bypass my online IMAP account
altogether.

Then ask your ISP if you can change from IMAP to POP.....

 

[VanguardLH]

Is there anyways to actually download the emails from an IMAP
account to your computer? I have setup IMAP email through Outlook
2007, but emails still accumulate in my actual email online even as
they are downloaded to Outlook. Eventually, Outlook will download a
message from my IMAP account that says my account is almost full.
Then, when I look at the account I notice that there are no messages
there, even still, it says that my account is like 95% capacity.
Then, after about 3 minutes on the email online, suddenly, my
account goes to 0%. Can you say weird? I just wish it would download
straight to Outlook and bypass my online IMAP account altogether.

That is how IMAP works (versus POP's default of deleting from the
server after yanking the e-mail). The mail stays in your IMAP mailbox
until *you* choose to delete it. With IMAP, *you* are the one
managing the contents of your mailbox up on the mail host. With POP,
and using the default configuration to delete the mail after
downloading it, the only copy remaining is the one that got downloaded
into your local e-mail program (but you can configure the e-mail
program not to delete after the mail poll which would leave the mail
into your mailbox and, again, end up filling your disk quota up on the
mail host).

 

[Brian Tillman]

Is there anyways to actually download the emails from an IMAP account
to your computer? I have setup IMAP email through Outlook 2007, but
emails still accumulate in my actual email online even as they are
downloaded to Outlook. Eventually, Outlook will download a message
from my IMAP account that says my account is almost full. Then, when
I look at the account I notice that there are no messages there, even
still, it says that my account is like 95% capacity. Then, after
about 3 minutes on the email online, suddenly, my account goes to 0%.
Can you say weird? I just wish it would download straight to Outlook
and bypass my online IMAP account altogether.

The whole purpose of IMAP is to allow you to keep things on the server. If
you don't have enough room on the server, then either switch to POP access,
or copy the data from the mailbox to local folders that you create, removing
the data from the server when you copy.