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<blockquote data-quote="spock999" data-source="post: 1702326" data-attributes="member: 302396"><p>Progress at last! Thanks Rod for making me think about it a bit.</p><p></p><p>Essentially we were all correct!! My email address had indeed been hijacked - through what I did early in the set up process. I was focussed on xferring files, setting up the disks and my data and sorting the email on my computer. As a result I hadn't taken too much notice of the iCloud except to ensure that Calendar (which we already use), Contacts and Notes were set up. Crucially not Mail. As a result I had not been allocated an iCloud.com email address and therefore it was using my main email address instead for the iCloud account. Hence I couldn't use that address for setting up an account in Mail. As soon as I enabled Mail on the iCloud and had an iCloud email address, it then allowed me to set up an email account based on my main email address. As I said in one of my earlier posts, I like to understand what I am doing and the implications of what I do. There is not enough to help you do that on the internet and Apple error messages seem less than informative at times - especially when you are unfamiliar with the system.</p><p></p><p>So now I can move forward with starting to use Mail and importing my emails. It appears that I am OK with my provider and, as I will be moving from POP3 to IMAP, I know I have to be careful with ensuring my IMAP access is set up and working before importing my current emails. Having them all accessible won't exactly cripple my system at just over 3GB but I am not sure that is necessary. I see that you can set up offline mailboxes "On My Mac" - is it possible to choose where they are placed? My 500Gb SSD will probably cope OK but my preference is to store the archived mail on my external RAID disc.</p><p></p><p>I want the SSD to be available more for my ongoing photography stuff ie what I still have to process and decent sized fast caches for LR and Photoshop.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spock999, post: 1702326, member: 302396"] Progress at last! Thanks Rod for making me think about it a bit. Essentially we were all correct!! My email address had indeed been hijacked - through what I did early in the set up process. I was focussed on xferring files, setting up the disks and my data and sorting the email on my computer. As a result I hadn't taken too much notice of the iCloud except to ensure that Calendar (which we already use), Contacts and Notes were set up. Crucially not Mail. As a result I had not been allocated an iCloud.com email address and therefore it was using my main email address instead for the iCloud account. Hence I couldn't use that address for setting up an account in Mail. As soon as I enabled Mail on the iCloud and had an iCloud email address, it then allowed me to set up an email account based on my main email address. As I said in one of my earlier posts, I like to understand what I am doing and the implications of what I do. There is not enough to help you do that on the internet and Apple error messages seem less than informative at times - especially when you are unfamiliar with the system. So now I can move forward with starting to use Mail and importing my emails. It appears that I am OK with my provider and, as I will be moving from POP3 to IMAP, I know I have to be careful with ensuring my IMAP access is set up and working before importing my current emails. Having them all accessible won't exactly cripple my system at just over 3GB but I am not sure that is necessary. I see that you can set up offline mailboxes "On My Mac" - is it possible to choose where they are placed? My 500Gb SSD will probably cope OK but my preference is to store the archived mail on my external RAID disc. I want the SSD to be available more for my ongoing photography stuff ie what I still have to process and decent sized fast caches for LR and Photoshop. [/QUOTE]
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