Multiple separate eMail accounts

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Multiple separate eMail accounts

Can I use seperate email accounts through iCloud (ie. mac.com and a gmail.com) that icloud and my other devices will send and receive seperately? Presently I have a @mac.com, my wife has a @tampabay.rr.com account which does not allow seperate mailboxes for each of us. On my iPhone, iPad, iCloud and computer I would like to chose a seperate inbox for each account. Within that inbox I would like to have multiple mailboxes for filing/saving purposes. Thus far I can only do that with the @mac.com within the iCloud inbox.

Thanks for your help.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion, iLife 11, iTunes, iWork

Posted on Oct 2, 2012 11:55 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 2, 2012 12:02 PM in response to elkriverken

Sorry elkriverken, I do not fully understand your question.

On each Mac or Apple device you can setup the Mail client to manage (receive, send and archive) any kind of mail account, as long as they exists, each of them in its own mail boxes. If you have alias they will probably go into the same account.

They will sync over iCloud if they are @me @mac @icloud or direct if theiy are IMAP.

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elkriverken Author

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Oct 2, 2012 1:27 PM in response to WALTER-MILANO-ITALY

How do I know which email accounts are IMAP vs. POP?

Obviously the @tampabay.rr.com account is not, as it won't sync through iCloud.

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Answer 3

Oct 2, 2012 1:37 PM in response to elkriverken

Not only iCloud is IMAP.

Look in Mail preferences and click on each account

The kind of account is listed:

This is Italian but yours should be similar.

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elkriverken Author

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Oct 2, 2012 5:16 PM in response to WALTER-MILANO-ITALY

I would like to know what kind of account is IMAP before I establish it. Going to mail preferences>accounts requires one to establish the account before determining whether it is IMAP or POP. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Answer 5

Oct 3, 2012 4:53 AM in response to elkriverken

IMAP and POP are mail protocols and the use of one or the other depends upont the mail server at your Internet Service Provider.

You should be informed by your provider if the account uses POP or IMAP or even if you can chose one of the two Sometimes also possible.

POP is generally older system than IMAP and the main difference is that with POP you download the message to your local computer (frequetly deleting them from the server while with IMAP you operate directly on the mail server. THe "visible difference" is that with IMAP you can keep different devices in sync in a much simpler way.

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