[OSX-Users] Re: two questions about mail

[Jules]

On 02/07/2009 12:07, Neil Broderick wrote:
> Hi,
> I have two seperate questions about mail which I am hoping somebody 
> can help me with.
>
> Firstly on my iphone I can now only access my ECS mail after setting 
> up a VPN when I am
> outside the university. I do not need to do this with my macbook so I 
> am not sure what is
> going on. This has only started happening since I upgraded to 3.0. All 
> things considered
> it is probably more secure this way but still it would be nice to have 
> to avoid doing this everytime.
No, you shouldn't have any problems accessing ECS mail directly from 
your iPhone. We all do it all the time with no problems whatsoever. 
Anyone in the Systems Team should be able to set up your mail account 
for you on your iPhone, we've pretty much all got one.
>
> Secondly I am trying to import mail boxes from alpine running on a 
> linux box to my mac. Mail.app
> imports everything with no problems except my sent-mail file which it 
> refuse to read as a mbox
> and so doesn't import anything. Looking at the file using vi the 
> format looks identical to any other
> mbox so again I am confused as to what is happening.
Why not drag the contents of the folder over from one account to the 
other in Mail.app? Then IMAP will do it all for you and it will probably 
work just fine. Assuming your folders are on the IMAP server to start with.

Jules

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