Yes, I got some stuff messed up a while back and since I'm a bit of a geeky guy and occasionally live dangerously, I went and deleted the entire mail folder in ~/library. then started over and none of any previous junk was around. You might try that if you dare. Personally, I did it from the terminal with the rm command.
On Jun 26, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote: > Hi again! > Okay, found the choice. In the second screen of the dialog, I discovered that > VO wasn't landing in the start of the dialog. So lo and behold, I did > VO-left-arrow and there was the button which said pop. So I changed it to > imap. I then completed the account creation and all of my folders which I'd > created on my pop account were still there. None of the folders I've recently > created on the server show up except that second sent mail box. Is there a > place deep down where previous activities have been stored? Should I manually > remove all folders and rules before I remove the account to see if that > helps? Is there another setting in Lion that I don't know about in terms of > how it talks to the server? Thanks. > Veronica > Previous text: > Yes, I am positive that the account supports imap as I have it running on my > PC now. Plus, it did sort of create an imap account and I know this because I > can send on my Mac in an imap account whereas I can not always send in pop > mail. It's a lion bug and this is one of the reasons I am trying to change. > But yes, a hundred per cent positive the account can do imap. > > Veronica > > > Watch and hear Veronica Elsea's Prayer for a Soldier at > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoIhWrBHFI > Then find more music from Veronica Elsea and The Guide Dog Glee Club at: > http://www.laurelcreekmusic.com > Veronica Elsea, Owner > Laurel Creek Music Designs > Santa Cruz, California > Phone: 831-429-6407 > > > > On 6/26/2012 3:00 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Are you sure the account supports IMAP? >> >> Ricardo Walker >> rica...@appletothecore.info >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On Jun 26, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Veronica Elsea <veron...@laurelcreekmusic.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone! >>> Okay, I'm baffled. Thanks to the urging from many of you on this list, I'm >>> finally making the switch from pop mail to imap. Don't even ask about life >>> with Thunderbird on my Windows computer! <sigh!> Anyway, here's the Mac >>> question. Oh, I am running Lion on my MBA. So, I deleted my pop mail >>> account by hitting VO-space on the remove account button found in mail >>> preferences. I then closed Mail and just for good measure, rebooted the >>> computer. >>> When I opened Mail, the welcome message appeared and it took me through the >>> questions. Trouble is, there was no question asking me whether I wanted >>> imap or pop. The first time I went all the way through the set up, it ended >>> up as imap, but all of my previous mailboxes, messages, rules and >>> signatures were still there. It didn't synchronize properly in that the new >>> folders I'd created on the server didn't appear and I ended up with two >>> sent folders. So I removed the account a second time and shut down the >>> computer again. But again, in the account creation dialogs, there was no >>> question about choosing imap or pop. Somehow I get the feeling it's not >>> really deleting what had been there and I'm ending up with a bit of a mess. >>> Any suggestions would sure be appreciated at this point. >>> After all, this was partly why I was supposed to join the 21st century and >>> switch to imap, so everything would just automatically appear on all >>> computers. Hmmm, as I said, all the wisdom here is so much appreciated. >>> I'll keep searching articles and such to see if I find some miraculous >>> solution as well. >>> Thanks again. >>> >>> Veronica >>> >>> -- >>> Watch and hear Veronica Elsea's Prayer for a Soldier at >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFoIhWrBHFI >>> Then find more music from Veronica Elsea and The Guide Dog Glee Club at: >>> http://www.laurelcreekmusic.com >>> Veronica Elsea, Owner >>> Laurel Creek Music Designs >>> Santa Cruz, California >>> Phone: 831-429-6407 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
