Adding a second IMAP Account

I now have a new Gmail account, and wanted to set it up as IMAP in Mail. However, when I click the Plus button in the Accounts tab of Preferences, it automatically defaults to POP. How do I make it IMAP?

actually, in Snow leopard a gmail account is automatically created as IMAP not POP so you don't need to do anything special. In general, to bypass the automatic setup creation hold option after entering your email and password. the "create" button will change to "continue". click that.

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Problems With a Second imap Account

Hi Everyone,
I've been using an IMAP account with Gmail and Mail for a few years now, and I've been quite happy with it. (Although it doesn't seem to save messages I send online to my Sent file offline.)
But I've set up a second IMAP account and I have a couple of problems with it.
1) There's no Inbox in Mail. Under the Your Name Gmail heading, it shows All Mail, Drafts, Important, Sent Mail, Spam, Starred, Trash, Personal, Recipts, Travel, and Work. But no Inbox. So everything shows up in All Mail, including spam, duplicates, trash, and mail I send. Needless to say, this is ugly and fairly useless as an Inbox. How do I set up a real Inbox?
2) I can't get rid of anything. I made the mistake of signing up on a few places (Twitter, Ancestry.com, Archives.com), all of which send me endless piles of junk. When I highlight them and delete them they just come back in All Mail. Even when I delete them from Trash. How do I fix this?
I'm running OS 10.6.8 and Mail 4.6.
Any suggestions most appreciated.
Cheers,
Giles

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Trouble adding a second email account to my iPhone 4

I am trying to add a second email account to my iPhone 4. I have gone into settings, mail/contacts/calendars, add account, etc. I have chosen "other" and then chosen "add mail account". I have entered my name, the second email address and a password. Is this password a new pass word for my new email account or is it the password needed to access the email server? Then I choose the POP over the the IMAP, because this new email is a POP account, I think. Now, am I required to add information for both the incoming mail server and the outgoing mail server? This is where I am lost.
I am trying to set this up with out going into the Apple store. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

Thanks. I have not gone to his web site. But, I do have the information the provided. He provided a POP Server address and a SMTP Server address. He also provided the public email address, username and password.
I think my issue is me not understanding IMAP vs POP and where to use the POP server vs the SMTP server information. Looks like I need to plan a trip to the Apple store.

Outlook 2010 won't let me set up a second imap account

I am attempting to set up a secon IMAP account on my outlook 2010. When I click the "NEXT" button and try to save the setup file using "Add New Account" I receive a message "The Requested Operation failed" and I can't get beyond this.
And, Outlook doesn't remember the settings I just input.
Anybody else experience this and have a solution. I would be most appreciative.
Dale Peronteau
[email protected]

Hi Dale Peronteau,
I'm posting to check if the problem has been solved.
And here are the detailed steps on how to create a new profile to test this issue:
1. Exit Outlook.
2. Go to Start > Control Panel, click or double-click Mail.
3. Click Show Profiles. Choose Prompt for a profile to be used.
4. Click Add.
5. Type a name for the profile, and then click OK.
6. Highlight the profile, and choose Properties. Then Email Accounts.., add your email account in the profile.
7. Start Outlook, and choose this new profile.
Also, you can try to repair your Office from Control Panel > Programs and Features, right click the Office program and choose Change, then Repair.
Sincerely,
Max Meng
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Weird difference after adding a new imap account.

Well, this is weird, unlike my other accounts this is what it looks like when I add new folders on this account.
Anybody have any idea why this would happen? I'm running tiger and the most up to date patches.
powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Read from: http://www.courier-mta.org/?FAQ.html
Q: Can't create folders, only subfolders of INBOX
This is a configuration issue with your mail client. IMAP servers are free to use any folder namespace arrangement that's technically convenient for them. Courier uses "INBOX." as the namespace for private folders, and "shared." as the namespace for public, shared, folders. The IMAP NAMESPACE extension (see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2342.txt) allows IMAP clients to automatically discover where the server creates folders, and your IMAP client should implement it.
This should be completely transparent to you, if your IMAP client properly uses the NAMESPACE extension. If your IMAP client were to automatically take advantage of self-configuration features offered by RFC 2060 and RFC 2342, it would automatically discover, without any additional configuration from the user, that:
The folder namespace hierarchy separator is the . character
Private folders are stored underneath the "INBOX." hierarchy
Public folders are stored underneath the "shared." hierarchy
If you have to explicitly create folders that are subfolders of INBOX, or if you explicitly have to name that "INBOX.foldername", this is due to your IMAP client not being able to configure itself accordingly.
A: Correct. IMAP servers are free to define any root of the folder namespace tree that's convenient for them. Courier's IMAP server uses INBOX as the folder namespace root, rather than the root hierarchy itself. Courier supports the NAMESPACE IMAP extension which allows compliant IMAP clients to automatically configure themselves so that the folder namespace root is transparent. Submit an enhancement request to have your IMAP client gracefully handle the folder namespace root.
Does this mean that Mail.app isn't rfc compliant when dealing with imap?

GMail IMAP account won't download new messages - still can send

Really bizzare bug...I use Mail with two accounts setup, both of which are GMail Imap accounts. Since yesterday I have not been able to download new messages for my inbox whenever Mail has been opened already.
When I first open Mail, it seems to sync correctly and get new messages, but after it's been open if anyone sends me a new message, Mail fails to download the message. Manually clicking "Get New Mail" or using the "Get All New Mail" from menu doesn't seem to help.
Rebuilding my Inbox does help in that it syncs my inbox back up, but after that it doesn't download messages like it's supposed to every minute (preference setting).
Can't think of anything majorly different that I've done in the last day, although I did install RC1 of "Things"....
I'm on OS X version 10.5.6

Has anyone actually done this and had it work? I'm a little anxious to try it given the "Jeez. Good catch..."
If this fix works, why does it work?
I'm running Mac OS 10.5.4 and Mail 3.3 on a MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with 1GB RAM.
I'm not sure that there is a connection, but Mail stopped downloading email from all my various email accounts shortly after I added a new IMAP account. I've now got 3 active IMAP accounts (one is Gmail), an inactive HTTPMail acct (hotmail) and an inactive POP acct.
I have tried taking all accts offline and bringing all back online at once and each individually. I have quit Mail and re-launched it. I have tried rebuilding each acct's inbox. I have tired re-launching after deactivating all accts but one. None of this has worked. If I click on "Get Mail", the pinwheels spin next to each acct inbox for a second, but no new mail appears.
What is really strange that one or two emails might download from any given account on any given day, but that's it. The one or two new emails that might appear from time to time appear to do so over night - I get up in the morning to check my email and discover at most one or two new emails, even though when I check the accts by webmail there are dozens of new emails between the three accts.
God, I HATE webmail!
When relaunching or taking the Gmail acct online I sometimes get an error message that it's certificate is invalid. I find this hard to believe as Google is no penny-anty operation, but I clikc "connect" and still no new email.
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How can I create a second mail icon for a second mail account?ount

I have added a second email account and would like to place a second mail icon in my dock for this account only. When I click on the current stamp icon, mail to and from both accounts appear. Is there a way to separate them? Thank you for any help you can give me.

Place the second account in another email application like Thunderbird.

New IMAP account won't appear on Apple Mail and yet wipes server

I have a problem with Apple Mail and a new IMAP account I've created.
I have one IMAP account (mail@*.com) which works fine and then recently I created a second IMAP account on that same server (property@*.com). I copied the details from the server to Apple Mail and yet as soon as I set up the account on Apple Mail then the test mails I send vanish from the server and do not show up in Apple Mail. When I remove that account on my Apple Mail then I can send messages to via webmail which show up on the server again.
Similarly when I use Thunderbird as my mail client then the property@*.com IMAP mail shows up fine.
Is there some conflict with having two IMAP accounts from the same server? is there any way I can get round that - set up an alias to have my property mail hived off to a different account / or even folder?
I would appreciate help... although I notice that 4 out of 5 of my last posts didn't get answered...
Alistair
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More than 1 IMAP account in "Mail"? - ...e.g. 2 "gmail" accounts in "Mail"

Hi folks,
I have currently a "mobile.me" subscription which I don't really use (e.g. I don't need the internet functions like the homepage designer nor the 200gb, etc.). Nevertheless, I would still like to use "Mail" as my primary email application.
Therefore I created two new "gmail" email addresses (one for my wife and one for myself). Although it was quite an easy task to set-up the first gmail address in "Mail" (IMAP) it was not possible to install a second IMAP account.
Please help me! How can i set-up a second IMAP account in "Mail"?
or the other way around. how can I use "Mail" with two different email addresses? ...without a "mobile.me" subscription?
Thanks in advance
Dave

mea culpa!
I forgot to change the description for the second (new) IMAP account.
Regards Dave

Duplicate Emails in Mac Mail with two IMAP Accounts

I have all my email accounts running through Mac Mail (v 4.5).
Recently I added a work IMAP account in addition to my Gmail and another personal account. Since I did so, every time an email comes to the work account, a duplicate gets sent to my Gmail. No idea why, and it didn't start until I brought everything into Mac Mail.
I've tried re-adding the work account as a POP (just as an experiment) and the same thing happened. And again when I brought the work account back a third time as an IMAP.
Any assistance would be a big help.
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I'm having similar difficulties. Mac Mail has been seriously disrupted with upgrading to Mavericks.

Mail - Multiple Imap Accounts - Sent Folders

I have multiple Imap accounts set up in my mail.app. I know of the feature to set the the sent mail folder. But what do I do with multiple imap accounts and multiple sent folders? When I would like all my accounts to have the correct sent items.

Not every IMAP server requires that you use that command -- if not needed, then the options for that command will be gray when you select an individual Sent mailbox from the Sidebar. Are you saying there is no black triangle beside the Sent icon, even though you have sent a message from the account?
Control click on the Inbox of the second IMAP account, and choose Get Account Info -- there, under the Quota Limits tab you will see all the folders that currently exist on that IMAP server. What do you see?
Ernie

Mail crashes with IMAP account. Entourage/Thuderbird working fine.

Hello Mac users!
Unfortunately, I in the Mail discussion board, so let me repost my issue.
A few days ago, Mail started crashing when synchronizing with my IMAP server. I've tried all the standard steps like deleting pref, cache, Library/Mail folder; created new user account, repair permissions, cron scripts...
It crashes on our iMac and Powerbook, so it's obviously related to that particular email account. Other accounts (POP/IMAP) from the same email provider are not affected.
For some reason though, Entourage/Thunderbird/webmailer have absolutely no problem accessing the same account!
We heavily rely on Spotlight in our office, so there's no way to get around using Mail.app.
I can download email using the POP protocol, yet there're many reasons why we're paying for an IMAP server.
Removing all recent messages using Entourage doesn't have any impact on Mail.app.
For what it's worth...A crash report can be found here
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And there goes my second IMAP account! Same server, different account, same symptoms!
This is getting serious!!!
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"The Connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable" when adding second Exchange account to Outlook 2013

I have a problem that I've found to be typical, just haven't found anything that describes my exact problem.
I'm having trouble adding a second Exchange 2010 server account to Outlook 2013 in one of the computers of the domain. Outlook 2013 will complain with "The Connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable. Outlook must be online or connected to complete
this action".
I've Googled and found many threads with the same error... however most of those seem to be either a problem with the server, or the Global Catalog in Active Directory, or the "connection method" (I've tried all found solutions to no avail).
This is not the case, since the first account is added with absolutely no problem. It can send and receive and I can delete the outlook profile and recreate it and it'll give no problems. I have this problem only when adding a second account.
This is a fresh Windows 8.1 install with an up-to-date Outlook 2013. I have other computers in the same domain and network, with the same setup (Win 8.1 + Outlook 2013) configured with two exchange accounts with no problem.
There are no connectivity problems, I can access that same account through OWA and in other computers on the network... the Global Catalog seems to be fine (shows two active DCs, which is correct).
I've tried deleting and recreating the outlook profiles, repairing the outlook installation, even deleting all outlook files in AppData and letting it recreate them, with no success.
Any hints of what could be going on?
Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Hi Javier,
Thank you for the update.
I have tested on my lab and get following result.
Lab: Exchange 2010, CAS Array (CAS01+CAS02), MBX01, DC
Type Server Field
Check name result
Changed Server Field
CAS01.domain.com
Yes
CASArray.domain.com
CASArray.domain.com
Yes
CASArray.domain.com
DC.domain.com
Yes
CASArray.domain.com
MBX01.domain.com
No
"The Connection to Microsoft Exchange is unavailable"
Based on my knowledge, the reason why inputing DC FQDN in the Server Field fixes this issue is that Outlook performs AD Lookup and finds the account configuration from AD, then back the CAS Array FQDN in the Server Field instead of DC FQDN.
Exchange 2010 is different from Exchange 2013, if you are using Exchange 2013, we need to input MailboxServerGUID.domain.com into Server Field.
If there is anything I’ve misunderstood, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Thanks,
Steve Fan
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How can I remove an email account from my mail box list? I added the account as an iCloud IMAP account in error.

How do I remove an mailbox I recently added as an iCloud IMAP account in error? It should have been added as a POP account.

Highlight it in Mail > Preferences > Account and click on the "-" tab at the bottom of the list panel.

I can't add a second email account. I get a message next to the password field 'Username or password invalid'. I can login to gmail web ok, imap is enabled.

I have setup TB using a gmail account and is working fine. When I try to add another gmail account I get an error 'Username or password invalid'. I can login to this second gmail account through the web at gmail and the account has imap enabled.
ps - i've been using these accounts for years through the web
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I also tried deleting TB altogether and reinstalled trying the problem gmail account and it still didn't work.
While checking on the 2-factor authentication, which I don't use, i noticed something. The working gmail account allowed 'access for less secure apps' and my problem account didn't. I enabled that and was able to add it to TB. All works now!
Not sure if the less secure apps is a good thing, but its working.
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