{"id":400,"date":"2015-09-22T10:59:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/?p=400"},"modified":"2015-09-22T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T19:01:56","slug":"your-iphone-or-ipad-isnt-saving-sent-imap-messages-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/your-iphone-or-ipad-isnt-saving-sent-imap-messages-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Your iPhone or iPad isn’t saving sent IMAP messages in the cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most email accounts today use an IMAP email server. The advantage to this is whatever happens on one device\u2013say, a laptop\u2013gets reflected on another\u2013say, an iPhone. If you read a message on your Mac, it will show up on your iPhone as having been read. If you send a message from an iPhone, it will show up in the sent folder on the Mac as well.<\/p>\n

Except! Sometimes this doesn’t happen. You send an email on the iPhone, it sends successfully, but the email never shows in sent mailbox on the Mac.<\/p>\n

The reason for this is some accounts configure with a different default setting for sent messages\u2013they are configured to store\u00a0sent emails locally, instead of on the IMAP server. Fortunately, it’s an easy fix.<\/p>\n

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  1. Unlock your iPad or iPhone and tap on ‘Settings’<\/li>\n
  2. Scroll down to ‘Mail, Contacts, and Calendars’ and tap on that. You should be presented with a list of accounts.<\/li>\n
  3. Find and tap on the email account in question.<\/li>\n
  4. It should say ‘IMAP’ in small gray letters in the upper left, and it will have a field that says ‘Account’ listing your email address. Tap on that.\u00a0This will take you to the account settings.<\/li>\n
  5. \u00a0Scroll all the way down to the bottom and tap on ‘Advanced’. All sorts of magic happens here!<\/li>\n
  6. Under the heading ‘Mailbox Behaviors’ tap on ‘Sent Mailbox’.<\/li>\n
  7. The very first heading will say ‘On iMy iPhone’. Make sure that’s not checked anywhere! You want to scroll down\u00a0to the section that says ‘on the server’.<\/li>\n
  8. Tap on ‘Sent’ under the ‘On the server’ section.<\/li>\n
  9. Back out by tapping the upper left button to go to the previous screen.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    The send settings for an IMAP account on an iPhone running iOS9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    You’re done! From here on out, you should be able to send an email on that iOS device, and it will properly show up on other devices. One note: It’s also possible to set a different default ‘sent’ folder on the Mac should that be necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Most email accounts today use an IMAP email server. The advantage to this is whatever happens on one device\u2013say, a laptop\u2013gets reflected on another\u2013say, an iPhone. If you read a message on your Mac, it will show up on your iPhone as having been read. If you send a message from an iPhone, it will … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,83,84,63],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology-101","tag-how-to","tag-imap","tag-ios","tag-mail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/IMAP-send-settings-on-an-iPhone.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1QPzl-6s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}