Switching POP to IMAP

Easiest thing to do is save you present mail to a Sub folder of some type in the Mail program. Delete the Gmail POP account in Mail then Re-Set it up as an IMAP account.

With POP all your mail downloaded to your computer is ON your computer and noramlly removed from the Mail providers servers. If you Delete the account it will Wipe out all that downloaded mail removing the Inbox and Sent mail folders and also if you have created any Subfolders for Saving/Archiving mail INSIDE that accounts main folders it will also delete all those.

That is why you have to SAVE your mail to some higher level folder system in the mail program, Copy And Paste it to separate folders.

Sorry I am not that familiar with Apple/Mac Mail as I don't use it (In my option it is a piece of Junk program) so I'm not sure how it really works. But with any other Mail program I have ever used you can create folders that are Not really associated with any One Account. That is where you want to create these new folders and save you Gmail Mail to them. So they do not get deleted when you delete the account.

Once you do that and then Delete and recreate the Gmail account you can then Copy back those emails to the Gmail folders of the newly created account and they will get put back on the Gmail servers.

Now this is how it works with Thunderbird but with Apple/Mac Mail I'm not sure just how it works and talks to the IMAP servers. There are reports of Apple/Mac Mail just deleting emails for no good reason. One time you open the program all your mail is there and the next time you open it, whether within a few minutes or days, all the mail is just gone.

Also it seems from what I read that Mac Mail doesn't really communicate well with any IMAP servers.

All I can say is Good Luck.

Well then I brain$*@(ed as well but I was being sold hard through reviews of Apple Mail vs. Gmail and Gmail won out consistently.

So when I had 2 gmail accounts and I wanted to have account #1 send all of my mail to account #2 someone said you had to use POP. So that's what I am doing now.

But the more I get into gmail the more frustrated I become. I sent 20 messages today and when I went to search for them in "all mail" on my Gmail account #2 (only one I am using for outbound mail) about 4 showed up. I very much want a record of every sent and received e-mail. - So I am really questioning this gmail thing... or I have done something wrong.

Not terribly computer literate but can't understand if its Mavericks or POP instead of IMAP or ????