How to copy Mail messages to iPad from iMac

I'm new to iPads (but a long-term user of Macs) and have always received my mail via POP servers. I was disappointed to find that checking the 'Sync Email Accounts' box only scyns the account settings, not the messages!

I understand the best way to have synced messages on the iPad and iMac is to move to using an IMAP server, such as gmail.

However, I'd like to copy the many email messages stored on my iMac (Inbox, Drafts & Sent) from Mail on the iMac to Mail on the iPad.

Is there any way to do that?

Ashwood11 said:

Forward

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Thanks for your suggestion. However, if you mean forwarding thousands of messages, it's not very practical and I should lose the original From: information -- all inbox emails would be from me!

Rather than Forward, Redirect might help get over some of the latter problem, but I was hoping for a more tidy and efficient solution to move whole mailboxes, with the results indistinguishable from how they would have been if received originally on the iPad.

Anyone know of such a solution?

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Ratatapa said:

Configure it as imap

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Thanks Ratatapa, but as you can see in my original post (2nd paragraph) I am already aware of that for new emails.

What I'm after is a way to transfer past emails, inbound and outbound ones, to the iPad.

I've moved emails between Macs since I first had email and have even used a third party app to convert my wife's Eudora mailboxes successfully to Apple Mail ones.

So I'm hoping someone may have come across an app that would transfer the mailboxes across to the iPad.

BrianBaughn said:

You might be able to get them out of your iPhone backup file with "iPhone Backup Extractor" or something similar.

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Unfortunately, I don't have an iPhone and so no iPhone backup file. My iMac is backed up, but presumably the name "iPhone Backup Extractor" doesn't sound too hopeful for me doing anything with that. I'll take a quick look to see what's said about it; who knows it may lead to a different solution. Thanks anyway.