(If no mailbox exists, you need to create it from the Mailboxes sidebar.
In the Account Information tab, set Download Attachments to All.Select Mail > Preferences and click Accounts.You make one change in settings and one change in behavior for everything else. The Inbox is essentially a window into messages that have arrived and you haven’t processed. Your Inbox will always remain on the server.
(You’d better be making backups, Time Machine or otherwise, or you’ll be sunk if your drive fails.) You can archive messages on a single Mac and store them there without leaving a copy on the server. You just have to change a view settings and rethink how you file mail once you’ve dealt with it. However, it’s possible to avoid all this. That’s the modern way, where we can reach the same mail storage on any device, as well as through Web mail. When they log into their mail, they want any email to be moved from the server to their Mac.Īpple’s Mail and most email clients on every platform and from every third party optimize their defaults settings around leaving mail on a server. They thought macOS Mail and iCloud would be a better match.īut they’re in a pickle, because they’re seeing iCloud storage fill up (Bob) or become full (Barbara), and they don’t want the messages there at all. Macworld readers Bob and Barbara migrated off other mail services to iCloud specifically to download messages directly and to avoid poor performance they were perceiving. It’s certainly not unusual to want to store your data only on locations over which you have full control-not some company’s cloud, even if that’s Apple.
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