Use the instructions above to put the mail online.Create an account that supports both POP3 and IMAP.Before using this method, verify your POP3 account can collect mail from the IMAP server - GMail and Hotmail require SSL for POP3 services and many accounts do not use SSL when 'popping' accounts. 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. 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. In this case, you could upload the mail to another server then POP it back to your original email account. If your email account does not support IMAP, you can't easily restore mail to the server unless it can POP email from other servers. If Outlook deleted downloaded email from either account, check your settings in the account online and configure it to archive mail downloaded using POP3. Note that both Gmail and Hotmail make it difficult for Outlook to delete mail from the server. Hotmail: although Hotmail does not support IMAP, you can use the Outlook Hotmail Connector to upload mail to the server. In Outlook 20 you need to create the account manually.

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Gmail: configure the account for IMAP in your GMAIL settings then setup the email account in Outlook. (unless you want to use it instead of POP3.) When finished, remove the IMAP account from the profile.The messages will be synced with the mailbox on the server.If it works well, select a larger block of messages to move in the second batch. 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. Drag the messages from the POP3 Inbox to the IMAP folder's Inbox.Make sure you set the POP3 account to leave mail on the server in the account's More Settings.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.Create a second email account in your profile using the IMAP account type.When you email account supports IMAP, you can restore mail to the server in a few simple steps:

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