Transferring email from PC to Mac

soph

Hi,

How can i transfer my eircom email a/c from my pc to my mac?

Hugh_C

soph wrote:

Hi,

How can i transfer my eircom email a/c from my pc to my mac?

sign up for a Gmail/ account, if you need an invite, let me know coz I have thousands available.

Once you've created the account (it's free), then forward all you stored mail on your PC to this new address. It might take some time depending on how much stuff you have saved.

Once it's all forwarded, fire up your new Mac and enter the details of your Gmail account into your Mail application, and there it is, for all eternity. Gmail is an IMAP account which means that it isn't stored locally on your own machine, it's stored in some drive in ??? I dunno.

Then also enter the details of your eircom account into Mail, and continue sending and receiving mail from that account too.

I'm sure there are other/better ways of doing it, but the advantage of Gmail (IMAP account) is that it's accessible from any computer hooked up to the internet.

hc

soph

hi, thanks for your help.

But i will need to transfer my own eircom email address for work purposes. do u know how i can do this? it is on my pc at the moment in outlook express

Hugh_C

soph wrote:

hi, thanks for your help.

But i will need to transfer my own eircom email address for work purposes. do u know how i can do this? it is on my pc at the moment in outlook express

If I understand you right, it's easy.

On your iBook, fire up the Mail application, and under the Mail menu, there's a Preferences option (or pretzel ,) and in there, you find an Accounts tab. Hit the + sign to add an account. Enter in the right information:

Account type: POP
description: whatever makes sense to you (Eircom soph maybe)
Full Name: whatever it is
Email address: whatever it is

click Continue

Incoming mail server: mail1.eircom.net
Username: whatever it is
Password: whatever it is

Outgoing mail server: mail1.eircom.net

JustHalf

A mate of mine did that with all his email for the last couple of years. He had tens of thousands of (non-spam) emails, keeping any attachments smaller than 2 megs.

He got an email from Google telling him that his account was temporarily locked, as he was responsible for 10% of all global GMail traffic that day.

Cabaal

JustHalf wrote:

.........as he was responsible for 10% of all global GMail traffic that day.

sounds very unlikely to be honest :cool:

JustHalf

"I'm so cool with these sunglasses on my smiley"

Unlikely but true.

soph

cheers hughchal,

will give it a go this eve... fingers crossed its as easy as that!

440Hz

It should be as easy as hugh says... Ive done it loads of times... if you run into trouble, post exactly what goes wrong..