Does Mail automatically seek IMAP settings?

Does Mail automatically seek IMAP settings over POP?
I'm having ongoing probs with IMAP with Sky and it's Google inspired webmail and I have tried the POP settings but nothing happens, just get the ~ next to the account.
I have asked Sky why their POP settings dont work [waiting for a reply] but every time I have created a new account Mail seems to seek the IMAP options first.
If Mail does default to IMAP, is there a way that I can create a new account and me tell it which type of account to define?

Basically I want to do the reverse of what is discussed here.

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5) Critial Step here: Go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File. Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the Yahoo! IMAP account. Close to the top of that page between the different Mail options and the account settings you will see three different bar pages: a) Account Information, b) Mailbox Behaviors and c) Advanced.
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dechamp wrote:
What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
The Yahoo server did exactly what you Mail program told it to do.
Mail/Preferences/Account/Advanced - This setting is adjustable for each mail account.
I didn't know about this feature until it was too late. I have already unchecked it for future emails.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
Not Really, you could forward them to your account, after you've told your mail program not to delete the emails at all, but they will show up as being from you instead of the original sender. The originals at Yahoo have been dumped and probably purged. It would take an IT manager at Yahoo to manually replace the emails, not much chance of that.
I've already asked yahoo to "restore" my inbox to a day ago. That should help me with retrieving some of the messages back, I hope.
Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
The sync feature refers to IMAP email accounts like .Mac or .Me or an Imap gmail account. I didn't think Yahoo offered IMAP email accounts.
Apple's MobileMe membership will let you sync your Mail, AddressBook, Calender, personal website with iWeb, etc.
"MobileMe is a service that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync."
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
I wanted to use Mac Mail, see if I liked it or not, then decide to get a MobileMe account. However, this is still a side note, since my yahoo account is my main email client.
You seem to be very well informed, and I was wondering if I can ask you to clarify a point for me. Do you know how to archive the inbox in the Mac Mail?
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I have basically 1 main question, but 2 different scenarios I'm dealing with - one personally for my mail and the other for my boss.
Though a longtime Mac user, I am new to using Mountain Lion, iPhone, iPad and iCloud and historically I have always had numerous email accounts in Mac Mail set up as POP and countless elaborate folders that I file and keep all my old emails in for reference.
When buying my new iMac with ML, the one thing I have not yet done is turn on iCloud for mail.
If I am understanding how this works (before I do it and create a nightmare of duplication on my iPhone & iPad, etc), if I continue to create my email accounts as POP on my new ML iMac, with their various folders, etc., and turn on iCloud for mail, will it simply reflect on my other devices all the same email accounts and folders and in essence act like an IMAP account in that if you move or delete a piece of mail on one device it will do so on all the devices?
I not only need to sort this on my computer, but my boss'. She currently only uses gmail and has all these same devices but they are set up as IMAP and iCloud is turned on and she has mass duplication that is unbearable.
I am thinking it would be best for me to make her gmail account set up as a POP account and keep iCloud turned on and it will basically eliminate the gmail replication but still allow her devices to all be in sync and have action on one device be seen on all the others.
This would allow me to create folders for her on her computer in Mac Mail and not use the folder system in gmail at all.
Am I understanding this correctly? Hope I'm making sense!
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Hi Glenn:
Thanks for your response. I do understand what IMAP does, and I do purposely want all my emails POP so they are downloaded as localized on my computer.
But where the confusion is for me is iCloud.
There is "iCloud mail" which I DO NOT WANT. I don't need yet another mail account.
I mean "turning on" iCloud for your existing mail. The way you can turn it on for Calendar, Contacts etc. in Systme Preferences>iCloud> check Mail. Right now I do not have this checked on my iMac and I actually set up only one of my email accounts on my iPhone as a POP.
I was hoping that if I organize my email POP accounts the way I want on my iMac and file the various emails into whatever folders, that if I "turned on" iCloud, that it would reflect the same on my phone. If not, I will not add these accounts to my phone, as I don't want all that on my phone.
I like being able to glance at an email on the phone if I'm in town and be able to delete it, but still know its waiting for me to actually deal with and/or file when I get back to my main computer.
I monitor over 100 email accounts, some mine, but many for business clients and this is why I don't want my phone clogged with all this. But if turning on iCloud would mimic my iMac mail, then I could just file the emails on the Mac and know they are there in the phone (and I wouldn't delete them on the phone, as it would delete them on the Imac). Hope this is making sense!
In my boss' case, she has the reverse issue.
Someone in the UK set up her iPad, iPhone and laptop with Gmail - her only email account.
It is IMAP. They also turned on iCloud (not @icloud mail) and what she has is not only the duplicates caused by Gmail IMAP settings (which you have to remove in Gmail Settings so you don't have the dual Inbox and Gmail "All Mail" inbox on your devices, but to make things more complex for her, she has a Portuguese iPhone and a US iPhone (rather than just swapping SIM cards).
What I hear all day long is "why do I have all these duplicate emails" "where did everything go I was just looking at?" yadda yadda yadda.
She has her Inbox which has 2000 unread emails sitting in it and her "All Mail" with even more. Its a mess I want to clean up but don't want to do the wrong thing without fully understanding here what would happen.
I was hoping that "turning on" iCloud for your MacMail would actually reflect on your devices the same folders and accounts, in which case I could change her Gmail to a POP account and make folders for her and simply have them reflected on her devices once.
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