Don’t delete the POP account until you’ve confirmed that all the mail you need has been copied to our servers and will therefore be visible from IMAP (you can use webmail to check what’s on our servers). If you’re asking this question because you’re switching from POP to IMAP, you should first create the new IMAP account in Apple Mail with the same address, then copy the mail to the IMAP account if necessary. Once you have verified that all mail has been copied to your new account, you can safely delete the old one.
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We strongly recommend making a full backup of all email before copying messages and deleting accounts. You can "disable" an account, which keeps the messages stored on your computer - but it also hides them from your view, making them impossible to read or copy unless you re-enable the account.īecause of that, the only way to both save your mail and disable an old POP3 account is to first setup a new account (Apple Mail allows multiple accounts), then copy the old mail to the Inbox of your new account if it’s not already there (by simply dragging the messages). With the Apple Mail program, if a POP3 mailbox (an “account”) is deleted, it removes all messages associated with that mailbox, deleting them from your computer - which may have the only copy of a message if you’re not also storing them on our servers! It can also delete all local mail folders that normally show up under “On My Mac”. Always make a backup before doing anything. You can check if the Sent and Trash folders are being saved locally by following the steps on our iOS folder setup page and seeing whether it’s already set to save messages on the server.Īpple Mail is particularly likely to delete mail when you make changes. If you’re using IMAP instead of POP3 on an iOS device, you would lose mail only if it’s being stored in the local Sent and Trash folders on the device instead of on the server. Tap Mail > Accounts (for iOS 15 or iOS 14), Passwords & Accounts (for iOS 13 or iOS 12), Accounts & Passwords (for iOS 11), Mail (for iOS 10) or Mail, Contacts, Calendars (for iOS 9 and previous versions).If you don’t want to lose this mail, you should disable the account instead of deleting it: Be sure to read the small description of what will be deleted that appears on the screen when you choose “Delete Account”.
When you delete a POP3 account from an iOS device, you will lose any mail that’s was stored in the local Sent and Trash folders on the device, as well as mail in the Inbox that has been deleted from the server. Apple iPhone / iPad / iPod touch (iOS devices)Īpple iPhone / iPad / iPod touch (iOS devices).Read the information below before deleting accounts in those programs. However, some programs work a little differently. You can usually delete or replace an email account in these programs without affecting or deleting previously downloaded messages.
That said, with many email programs, including Outlook Express, Eudora, and Entourage, deleting a POP3 email account in the program should not delete the messages that have already been retrieved.
We can’t emphasize that enough: Always make a backup before deleting anything on your computer or device, because in some cases, your computer or device may have the only copy to start with.
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