I'm looking for an easy way to sync all my mailboxes created on my iMac with my MacBook Air. If I create a smart mailbox on the iMac, will all the contents be continually updated on my Air as well? If not with a smart mailbox, how can I accomplish this? Will AirDrop work for this?
Are you using IMAP or POP e-mail? IMAP will sync to all computers. In my opinion, the easiest thing to do would be to create the same smart mailbox on each computer so you aren't constantly transferring things back and forth.
Are you using IMAP or POP e-mail? IMAP will sync to all computers. In my opinion, the easiest thing to do would be to create the same smart mailbox on each computer so you aren't constantly transferring things back and forth.
Hi Eric, I use IMAP. This didn't solve the issue at all - in fact it became a bit worse. I set up a smart mailbox on both computers; that suddenly morphed in to two smart mailboxes with the same name; plus one I didn't want at all called 'Today'. Then I tried to drag your email into the mailbox on the iMac to see if was now stored on both computers and it wouldn't even go into the folder.
You can not 'drag' emails into a smart mailbox, there are no emails in smart mailboxes, just search results. If an email meets the criteria for a smart box it will appear in there, but the email itself has not moved.
I guess this isn't what I'm attempting to do. I drag emails into mailbox folders as a way of clearing them from my inbox and saving the ones I want in these specific folders. But these folders only appear on the iMac and I would like to have them all synced up to the Air so when I travel I can keep adding to them plus access all the emails already in those folders. Is there any easy way to do this? AirDrop maybe?
Make 'dumb' mailboxes (normal mailbox) and drag the mail into them.
Yes that's what I do on the iMac, but those do not sync with the Air at all. Any suggestion on how to get them to sync without manually exporting every mailbox and importing each onto the Air? I have done this in the past, but within a few hours, some mailboxes are already incomplete.
You must drag them into whatever Imap account you are using, not into 'On My Mac' which is a local account only.
It worked! I just pulled the mailbox folders out of the 'On My Mac' section and into the 'iCloud' section and now all files are syncing on both computers! Thank you very much. Don
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