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marcnotrust

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Dec 29, 2010
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Hi Guys,

I set my mail up for my Hotmail account and it pulled all my mails with no problem. I just logged into Hotmail on line and nearly all of my mails have gone. Does imail remove them from your webmail account?

Cheers,
Marc
 
That works for stopping future emails from being removed from my Hotmail Account, but is there away for putting back all of the emails that have been removed from my Hotmail Account and put are sitting in Mail on my Macbook Pro?

I've searched dozens of Forum threads on this problem but have yet to see an answer for restoring the Hotmail Account Inbox?!
 
Azz82 said:
That works for stopping future emails from being removed from my Hotmail Account, but is there away for putting back all of the emails that have been removed from my Hotmail Account and put are sitting in Mail on my Macbook Pro?

I've searched dozens of Forum threads on this problem but have yet to see an answer for restoring the Hotmail Account Inbox?!
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The IMAP protocol allows the functionality you're looking for but hotmail uses the POP3 protocol which only pulls down emails from the hotmail servers. However, there may be 3rd-party solutions that can provide a workaround.

I'm not a big fan of POP3 myself.
 
I've searched 5 minutes and came up with a solution:

1. Get a gmail.com account if you don't have one.
2. It has IMAP support, so copy all of your local mails into the inbox of the gmail.com account. They will now be available on the online store of gmail.
3. Use TrueSwitch from hotmail to sync your gmail account with hotmail.
4. You're done!

Edit: Almost forgot,

5. Stop using a POP mail account and start using one with IMAP support :D
 
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