Mac Mail

[yossar]

Apologies in advance for my lack of basic comprehension behind email access and storage. We are getting ready to cancel our Comcast account (who currently provides our email service). Say they shut off the spigot tomorrow, will we still have access to all of the comcast email up to today on our computer via our mac mail in and out boxes?

Thanks!

 

[chscag]

Whatever you have stored on your Mac will remain there and you will have access. However, a note of caution: If your account is an IMAP account the mail folders on your Mac are going to reflect what's on the server = Inbox, Sent, etc. Make sure you store your mail in different folders on your Mac otherwise when the server gets cut off, that mail may be deleted.

 

[Slydude]

@Charlie Could they accomplished the same thing by going into Mail Preferences>Accounts. Then select the account and uncheck the box marked Enable this account. As long as that box is unchecked synching with the server shouldn't occur. I think I used this recently with my iCloud account. This way they can either leave things on the Mac in its current form or archive at their leisure.

 

[chscag]

Could they accomplished the same thing by going into Mail Preferences>Accounts. Then select the account and uncheck the box marked Enable this account.

Basically, yes. However, nothing like making sure, which is why I like keeping separate folders. I ran into a problem not long ago with my gmail account and several IMAP folders that reflected what was on the server. I then accessed the account from the web and removed mail on the server. Little realizing that at the same time it removed the mail from the reflected folders on my iMac. Dumb move on my part, but CCC to the rescue! Lesson learned.

 

[Slydude]

I almost made a similar mistake with my iCloud account. Intending to clear my junk mail folder I accidentally deleted the contents of my iCloud account. Fortunately, I had temporarily disabled synching on that account.

 

[harryb2448]

To save problems when changing ISPs, I generally start the new service one week prior to the old being dumped with of course emails to all Contacts adbising change of email address.

Next time around think I will just take up one of these pobox alias addresses.


https://www.pobox.com