Anyone got IMAP to work with Sky?

[Faust]

i have both enabled and it works fine...with 993 SSL and 465 smtp...dont see what the issue is...

however, i turned IMAP off again as i dont need it and i have remote access to my PC so its easy anyway...

Are you using Outlook 2007? When I had both POP and IMAP enabled it caused all sorts of problems, Outlook kept crashing. Yes port 465 will work as well as 587.

[Faust]

I can send and receive in Outlook2007 using IMAP, but cannot download headers only. I keep getting headers and message. I've been into send/receive settings put check mark against 'in' folder and clicked 'download headers only'. Have tried changing different settings but still get whole email. What am I doing wrong.

Can't help you there as I have mine set for headers and message as that's how I want it to work, never tried just getting headers only. What's the advantage of only getting Headers?

[Dave37]

Can't help you there as I have mine set for headers and message as that's how I want it to work, never tried just getting headers only. What's the advantage of only getting Headers?

It was for security really. If I only download headers and I don't like the look of who it's from I can delete it, just in case there is a virus. I've had plenty of them you see. Now I'm not sure if IMAP is working anyway. After I download a message into Outlook, I go into Sky webmail the message doesn't download, I assume it should. I'd rather not use pop as messages and attachments were going missing.

[Dave37]

[QUOTE=Dave37;138664]It was for security really. If I only download headers and I don't like the look of who it's from I can delete it, just in case there is a virus. I've had plenty of them you see. I'd rather not use pop as messages and attachments were going missing. Also why is send and receive greyed out.

[Faust]

You configure download headers in your Outlook client under the send and receive settings. You will know if IMAP is working as you will have a new folder with your email address against it for each IMAP account in your Outlook folder tree. When I go into the Sky email account all my emails are there both sent and received etc. just the same as they are in my Outlook client. As far as I know they should be.

[IWasNotTheEnemy]

yes im using outlook 2007, and for googlemail pop i use TLS but for Sky i use SSL...

[willsdad]

You must only enable one or the other i.e. POP or IMAP don't have them both enabled and do make sure you click "save" before exiting. I take it you are manually configuring the settings in Outlook and not asking Vista to do it automatically aren't you as it won't work automatically. Also and just a thought, you aren't clicking on "test account settings" until after you have completed the whole process are you? You wouldn't believe how many people do that before completing the advanced tab settings though given that it's on the first page you can understand why it happens - poorly set out really. Finally don't forget tick the box outgoing server smtp requires authentication and then in advanced tab incoming is 993 and SSL and outgoing is 587 and TLS - this is for IMAP. There's nothing more to it - if you've got your Sky email working then it's foolproof.

Sorted it. It didn't like the additional user accounts I had in place before Sky email switched over to Google. I deleted them and added again as new accounts and it works fine now. Thanks for your help.

[puretoon]

Anyone tried setting up Sky email settings on their Viewty phones??? I've a thread ongoing but thought I'd ask on here as you're all on about emails settings.

i've tried every way poss all to no avail sending or receiving emails on my phone-and its done my head in.

[NickS]

I’ve recently switched from POP to IMAP on Vista Home Premium and Outlook 2003 and am pleased with the results. I tried transferring all my “old” mail from Personal Folders into the Sky folders for back-up purposes by dragging and dropping and it updated my Sky account instantly. A little time consuming and you can only move complete folders if they don’t already exist in Sky otherwise you have to move the message, but with Ctrl+A that’s not a great problem. Sky also eliminates duplicated messages so you don’t have to worry about what is already in your Sky account.

I just have a couple of questions that maybe someone can help me with. If I am only downloading headers and then read a message is the message permanently downloaded to my computer or am I reading it from the server? Also, if I archive mail from my Sky folders in Outlook will that also remove them from the server or just my main Outlook folders? If they stay on the server will they download again when I next open Outlook? That would defeat the object of archiving but would at least provide a back-up opportunity in case Sky’s server loses data (heaven forbid!)

[rev_sid_vicious]

I've tried everything to get it to work on my G5 Intel iMac, using mac mail and Entourage X, everything is configured correctly but I keep getting password not recognised by server.
I've tried configuring with IMAP and POP3 but still the same problem. I am on the point of giving up on it.