08-08-2015, 05:39 PM
bedouin wrote:
One of the most important things to have on iMac three is the pop gmail (sent and received) from iMac two. Last night I set up the Apple mail on iMac three and then logged onto the gmail account and email started to download (but stopped after I went to bed and had to hit get mail for it to resume this am). But it does not seem to be importing sent mail unless it does it after all the incoming mail is received.
Why are you using POP mail?
IMAP is far and away superior for almost any use-case.
Now might be a good time to transition and get a good start on your new Mac.
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"Sent" mail, like most of your POP messages, will only reside on the computer that you used to send the messages from. That's how POP works. Messages are not saved on the server or synced with other devices. With the default settings, as soon as a message is received on or sent from your Mac, it is deleted from the server.
(You can mess with POP settings to save your messages in your Inbox even after they are downloaded to your Mac, but this is a kludge that seldom works well in the long run.)
If you want your entire mail archive on the new Mac and you're not "migrating" the entire old user account or then you'll have to export your old mail from your old Mac and import it on the new Mac.