Configure mail manually

Hello guys,
I am trying to set up my email account with the new mail app, but it won't let me configure it manually. My email provider offers both pop and imap, and I don't want to use POP. However, whenever I try to "add" another account (it's an email account from "terra.com.br"), it will automatically search my provider's informations and create a POP account with Mail, which I cannot change.
Any thoughts?
BTW: I tried creating the account at first and there was some sort of error, but I was kinda able to create the imap account. I deleted it because of the error, and now I won't get the option to choose imap.
Thanks a lot to anyone who is able to help!

Trying letting mail configure it for you. How are you trying to set it up (Hotmail doesn't support anything else other than POP (other than mobile products using it as exchange)).
You can always enter in a bogus email and password on the first setup screen, and then it will give you an option to manually enter the account information.

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