POP to IMAP folder and mail transfer

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boopr

I am switching from a POP mail account to an IMAP account. How do I transfer or copy all the folders, subfolders and mails to the IMAP account? Do I have to suffer through it or is there an easy way? I have a very extensive folder system that I need to retain. Thanks people.
 
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William Smith

I am switching from a POP mail account to an IMAP account. How do I
transfer or copy all the folders, subfolders and mails to the IMAP
account? Do I have to suffer through it or is there an easy way? I have
a very extensive folder system that I need to retain. Thanks people.
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Do you really need to transfer those messages to your IMAP account? They
will remain in the folders "On My Computer" even if you delete your POP
account.

Otherwise, you could drag and drop them into your IMAP folder structure
and they will sync with the IMAP server. They will all effectively be
online.

Hope this helps!

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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boopr

thanks Bill. I'm beginning to understand how to cope with it all now... i will probably create a new and cleaner folder structure in IMAP (because it seems you can't simply drag and drop anything but the mails, true?), pull over the mails I really need and, like you suggest, leave the rest as an archive.

Another question: how come the new folders I create in the IMAP set up aren't alphabetized under the In Box? I am used to seeing Inbox, then alpha folders, then Drafts, Outbox, Sent, Deleted, Junk. IMAP puts the latter up at the top of the list.
 
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William Smith

Another question: how come the new folders I create in the IMAP set
up
aren't alphabetized under the In Box? I am used to seeing Inbox, then
alpha folders, then Drafts, Outbox, Sent, Deleted, Junk. IMAP puts the
latter up at the top of the list.
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Most E-mail clients keep their "special" folders at the top of the list
and the order is controlled by what the client's developer's think is
important. You're more likely to access these folders than any others.

Hope this helps!

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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boopr

Well that is an unseemly change from Entourage in Office 2004. My clients' files/folders (the guys who pay me) are waaaay more important than folders called trash, junk.
 
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Diane Ross

Well that is an unseemly change from Entourage in Office 2004. My clients'
files/folders (the guys who pay me) are waaaay more important than folders
called trash, junk.
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Are you making subfolders under the Inbox or as root folders?
 
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Diane Ross

I guess they are subfolders. What's a root folder?

thanks
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In a folder list, the root folder would be a main folder with subfolders.
For example, Family is at the root level where Work and Project XX are
subfolders.

Inbox
Work
Project xx
Deleted Items
Drafts
Sent Mail
Family
 
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boopr

So I have this right now, I think you'd say it is root folders with subfolders, then more subfolders.

Inbox
Drafts
Send
Trash
Junk
Client A
Subfolder A
Subfolder B
SubSubfolders (many sometimes)
Subfolder C
etc
Client B
and so forth, like client A

thanks
 
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Diane Ross

So I have this right now, I think you'd say it is root folders with
subfolders, then more subfolders.

Inbox
Drafts
Send
Trash
Junk
Client A
Subfolder A
Subfolder B
SubSubfolders (many sometimes)
Subfolder C
etc
Client B
and so forth, like client A
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Yes, or you could have them go to the same root folder and sort by category
using Arrange by: select category Client A
 
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William Smith

Well that is an unseemly change from Entourage in Office 2004. My
clients' files/folders (the guys who pay me) are waaaay more important
than folders called trash, junk.
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying the way it works is necessarily good
or bad. It's just the way it works and it's probably because that's the
way the developers think it should work.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this changed in
future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism in any
Office application.

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bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
Entourage Help Blog <http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/>
 
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