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These are exactly the procedures I followed. It works great except if you have over 10k emails in your original cox account, not all transfer to Apple Mail on new email. Similarly, with iPhone except limited to 3k there.
When I spoke with Yahoo support they said it was an Apple issue and not their problem. That is why I say the testing done between Cox and Yahoo was inadequate. They obviously did not test large accounts with Apple products.
If you have that many messages stored on servers instead of locally you will run into that problem with almost any email provider. I'm not defending Yahoo or Cox, but if you need access to those messages the standard practice is to create mailboxes and store them locally. Most public email services are based on a store (for a set period of time) after forwarding model. Corporate Exchange users can set their own rules by deciding how much server capacity they want to devote but public services like Yahoo, Gmail and Cox set limits or the server requirements would be too costly to support for any company. Having said that you can retrieve any mail in those local mailboxes by accessing the plist files.
- KarenL28 days agoNew Contributor III
Thanks. I do have them stored locally as backups also. Never had a problem with Cox or Gmail.
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