I switched over from Apple Mail and don’t understand why my emails are not on my computer. I have the settings set to download all the emails but they still don’t… I still find myself waiting for emails in folders to download to read them… grand if you have fast broadband but I don’t… everything else works fine.
I want all my emails on my computer and I want IMAP… is that not possible?
With IMAP the messages are stored on the server, but you can cache them in eM Client for improved access.
Go to Accounts and click on the IMAP tab for the account. Scroll down to Sync Options, tick both of them and click on Save & Close.
This won’t affect linked content in the messages though. That will always need to be downloaded again from the source when the message is opened.
Ah Gary thank you… I thought that would be the answer but unfortunately I have already those two boxes ticked…
I switched over from Apple Mail and don’t understand why my emails are not on my computer. I have the settings set to download all the emails but they still don’t… I still find myself waiting for emails in folders to download to read them.
So are you saying some emails don’t show at all
neither in the subject or body ? So totally missing altogether & only show on your server webmail.
If the subject and body of some emails are still not showing at all (even after a day) for an IMAP account, I would suggest to remove and re-add your account again as could have been the initial account setup didn’t work 100% for some reason and might be not working properly as a result.
Or is it that you see the subjects, but no emails in the body appear when you click the subjects ?
If the email subjects are there, but the body of the emails are not showing, that could be just that eM Client just hasn’t quite read the email as yet and is still caching messages as @Gary advised. This is common when you just add a brand-new IMAP account into eM Client.
Even if you tick the box to download messages and attachments offline (as you advised you did already), eM Client still initially has to read and cache that downloaded email from the IMAP server end. So that initial download messages & attachments offline can still take a little time to do till it’s all cached locally. Just means it’s much faster to read and search for messages once its completed.