I never need to be connected to my ISP to get the mail in my pop3-inbox. It just comes in where-ever I open the pop3-connection. I only need to be connected to send mails (that's an anti-spam measure).
Did you try?
Kees
I use a Mac and a PC, process email on both machines, and need to retain copies of selected emails on both machines. In a couple of weeks time I shall be working on the Mac at a location which is connected to my ISP and on the PC at another location which is not. This situation will last for about three months. I use Apple Mail on the Mac, Windows Live Mail on the PC, and my ISP is Demon on the UK. So on the Mac I shall be able to use Apple Mail get at my mail in the normal way and will be able to keep copies of emails on the Mac, but on the PC I shall have to use Demon's Webmail so will not be able to get copies of my emails into WLM on the PC.
One way of dealing with this is to arrange every three weeks to transport my PC to the connected location, go into WLM, and get all the outstanding mail downloaded from the ISP - Demon keeps mail for four weeks before it deletes it. But that's a bit of an effort.
It should be easy to do an export/import from Apple Mail to WLM, but so far as I can see it's not. In Apple Mail I can create and export an mbox file containing the emails I want to retain but WLM will not import an mbox file; WLM wants an eml file. So I need to convert the Mac's mbox file into an eml file for WLM on the PC.
What software do you recommend for doing this conversion from mbox to eml? It needs to handle a file with a lot of emails, not just one email at a time. Would it run on the Mac or the PC?
Or is there another way of doing this?
MacBook Pro running under Mac OS X 10.6.8 with Apple Mail Version 4.6 (1085).
PC running under Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 with Windows Live Mail Version 2011.

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