Re: Mac mail help

2012-08-13 Thread Steve Holmes
A couple things here. If you are reading this mail on other devices too like your iPod or whatever, then you need to use IMAP all around. The second thing would be to get on your iPhone or iPod and check the mail there; if the old messages are still around on there, then they should still be

Mac mail help

2012-08-03 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
Hi all, I quite often have an issue with my time capsule and my BT hub/modem and I lose my internet/network and can only get it back once I've unplugged the time capsule and plugged it in again. Earlier this week it was gone for several hours before a lot of fighting with it fixed it. Actually

Re: Mac mail help

2012-08-03 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Hi kirsten, i'd say that Apple mail is one of the best mail clients i've used. I'd used outlook 2003 for a while, but didn't really like it, that was back when i was on Windows though. WHat it sounds like to me, from what you're describing, is that you have two accounts set up in mail, or

Re: Mac mail help

2012-08-03 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
So, as you suggested I've just been in the accounts part of the preferences ... thanks for reminding me where to find it - obvious really ... There's only one account there, the one which says btinternet and is apparently an imap and says yahoo in the description I am fairly certain this is

Re: Mac mail help

2012-08-03 Thread Dan Eickmeier
Well, the btinternet account sounds like an ISP provided account. Not sure if your ISP provides iMap, POP3, or both. Most ISP provided email is Pop3 though. You might want to call your ISP and check to see wihcih they support. If I have multiple devices, say a Mac, and an iPhone for

Re: Mac mail help

2012-08-03 Thread Kirsten Edmondson
I was wondering if it should be pop3 on my mac, that way the mails would stay, and imap on my 4s and ipad? Does that sound the wrong way round? As I only seem to have the imap version, would I need to add a new account if I wanted to create, or recreate the pop3 version? Don't want to mess up