Using IMAP to restore mail to the serverWhen you email account supports IMAP, you can restore mail to the server in a few simple steps:. Create a second email account in your profile using the IMAP account type. You'll now have two accounts in your profile for the same email account, with the IMAP account adding a second.pst to the profile. Make sure you set the POP3 account to in the account's More Settings. Advanced dialog.
Drag the messages from the POP3 Inbox to the IMAP folder's Inbox.Tip: You may want to start with about 100 messages at a time and wait a minute or so for the messages to sync up. If it works well, select a larger block of messages to move in the second batch.
The messages will be synced with the mailbox on the server. When finished, remove the IMAP account from the profile. (unless you want to use it instead of POP3.)Gmail: configure the account for IMAP in your GMAIL settings then setup the email account in Outlook. Gear icon, Mail settings, link)Yahoo: use imap-ssl.mail.yahoo.com for the IMAP server name. In Outlook 2007 and 2010 you need to create the account manually.Hotmail: although Hotmail does not support IMAP, you can use the Outlook Hotmail Connector to upload mail to the server.Note that both and Hotmail make it difficult for Outlook to delete mail from the server. If Outlook deleted downloaded email from either account, check your settings in the account online and configure it to archive mail downloaded using POP3. If your mail server doesn't support IMAPIf your email account does not support IMAP, you can't easily restore mail to the server unless it can POP email from other servers.
In this case, you could upload the mail to another server then POP it back to your original email account. If this is not possible and you need online access to the mail you downloaded, consider using Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo to store it online for you.If your account can collect mail from POP accounts (like Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail do), you can upload the mail using IMAP then your account can collect it using POP3. Talk Talk upgraded my email service and lost all my 2000 emails prior to the upgrade on 20 Jan 2019. I've followed the advice here and now restored them by creating an IMAP account in Outlook 2003 and also a POP account, then copying an old pop backup into the inbox to transfer to the IMAP account inbox which had uploaded them to the Talk Talk server.Since January Talk Talk have been unable to provide a solution and the advice on here has worked perfectly.
I can't thank you enough. I'm an old guy so don't regard myself as good with IT, and it's such a relief to have found your advice. Thank you so much. Hi Diane,Hope you can help me.I was trying to import my emails from outlook.com to my Gmail account. I forgot to do 'leave mail on the server', and now I have the emails in gmail, but they are deleted in outlook.com.
I figured this out half way and changed the setting, but the recent emails were already deleted in outlook.com. I would be thankful if you could help me to get them back to the outlook.com account.I was reading your instruction, but I got confused. So you were instructing to '1.Create a second email account in your profile using the IMAP account', but how can I create an IMAP account in gmail. The IMAP is enabled in gmail. And also should I create a seperate IMAP account on outlook.com?I do not want to move all the messages from gmail to outlook.com, just the ones which have been moved from outlook.com to gamil. So I am confused how to choose which ones should be moved to outlook.com?I will be grateful if you could help me.Thanks,Ali.