Hi Guys
I've finally managed to sell the benefits of IMAP to my Dad and have now convinced him that it will save him time and energy to migrate his Yahoo account to an IMAP one and he sees the light and agrees.
I've tried to think of the most easiest way in which this can be done, and it seems that, perhaps, I am best off doing the following:- 1. Backing up his entire POP PST. 2. Then emptying his entire Yahoo! mailbox, INBOX, SENT ITEMS ETC and wiping it clean to the state of an almost brand new mailbox (on the web interface). 3. Then finding a way of either importing the PST into Webmail and removing the POP3 account from Outlook, and finally re-adding the account as an IMAP one in Outlook and allowing it to populate the inbox, sent folders etc. Please note that the inbox has several sub-folders, and these need to remain. 4. Finally adding the IMAP account, which now mirrors outlook. NOTE:- Outlook is the master copy not outlook and I am banking that whatever deleted in Outlook can be restored when the first sync happens (Outlook will push to Yahoo!).
I have also read of people adding the IMAP account first and removing the POP3 - I'm not sure this makes much of a difference. I've read several articles, and rather worryingly, none of these make mention of giving the Webmail a thorough flush-through.
People who have done this, please advise!
Thanks
I've finally managed to sell the benefits of IMAP to my Dad and have now convinced him that it will save him time and energy to migrate his Yahoo account to an IMAP one and he sees the light and agrees.
I've tried to think of the most easiest way in which this can be done, and it seems that, perhaps, I am best off doing the following:- 1. Backing up his entire POP PST. 2. Then emptying his entire Yahoo! mailbox, INBOX, SENT ITEMS ETC and wiping it clean to the state of an almost brand new mailbox (on the web interface). 3. Then finding a way of either importing the PST into Webmail and removing the POP3 account from Outlook, and finally re-adding the account as an IMAP one in Outlook and allowing it to populate the inbox, sent folders etc. Please note that the inbox has several sub-folders, and these need to remain. 4. Finally adding the IMAP account, which now mirrors outlook. NOTE:- Outlook is the master copy not outlook and I am banking that whatever deleted in Outlook can be restored when the first sync happens (Outlook will push to Yahoo!).
I have also read of people adding the IMAP account first and removing the POP3 - I'm not sure this makes much of a difference. I've read several articles, and rather worryingly, none of these make mention of giving the Webmail a thorough flush-through.
People who have done this, please advise!
Thanks