.mac expiring, how do i keep my emails in Mail

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icibaquicibaqu
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Hi



My .Mac account is expiring very soon. (I have had it for years, in part because my wife and I didn't live together yet (we were dating), and I was just generally more transient, it was generally useful. Right now that functionaility I used it for isn't necessary, and although Mobile Me is interesting, I just can't make use of it right now.)



Anyway, my primary email address has been my @mac.com email. The email I've received from the".mac team" tell me that my .mac email will be accessable for two weeks after expiration. I just want to make sure that I do not lose the copies of those emails I have in Mail.app once the account expires.



Are there certain settings of something I should be sure are in place to make sure I don't lose everything?



Thanks everyone





I'm asking this under a "better safe than sorry" theory.

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  • Reply 1 of 7
    bbwibbwi Posts: 812member
    Make sure Mail is configured as POP and not IMAP. IMAP reads your mail off the server, POP will download your mail to your Mac.
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    icibaquicibaqu Posts: 278member
    well i'm glad I asked because it was IMAP.



    Now Mail is in the middle of the mother of all incoming message activity
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  • Reply 3 of 7
    cubitcubit Posts: 846member
    Quote:
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    Make sure Mail is configured as POP and not IMAP. IMAP reads your mail off the server, POP will download your mail to your Mac.



    How do I go about doing that? I've been using .mac mail for everything in courses I've been teaching and need to access my mail from my several macs in different locations beside my home desk-- MBP17, iMac24, MBP, iMac ancient 20.
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    bbwibbwi Posts: 812member
    Quote:
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    How do I go about doing that? I've been using .mac mail for everything in courses I've been teaching and need to access my mail from my several macs in different locations beside my home desk-- MBP17, iMac24, MBP, iMac ancient 20.



    If you need access to your mail on several different computers then you want to use IMAP not POP. Go to Mail>Preferences>Accounts
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    cubitcubit Posts: 846member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by bbwi View Post


    Make sure Mail is configured as POP and not IMAP. IMAP reads your mail off the server, POP will download your mail to your Mac.



    Quote:
    Originally Posted by bbwi View Post


    If you need access to your mail on several different computers then you want to use IMAP not POP. Go to Mail>Preferences>Accounts



    That's why I was a little freaked out by the idea that .mac mail would somehow disappear with the coming of the NewOrder.
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  • Reply 6 of 7
    areseearesee Posts: 776member
    Don't worry, your .mac account isn't disappearing. It's just having a name change. You can even keep using your @mac.com address.



    See http://www.apple.com/mobileme/migrating/
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    admactaniumadmactanium Posts: 812member
    if you create a folder on the "on my mac" section of the mail app, whatever emails you drop into that folder are saved to you hard drive. i generally file my mail onto my hard drive so i can back it up and i don't like leaving a lot of messages on the server because it drives me batty to have an inbox with thousands of messages in it. so a folder in "on my mac" will do exactly what you think it would, it saves those emails in an mbox file on your hard drive.
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