Duplicate accounts in Mail
Moin (stands for Good Morning in Northern Germany, used all day long)
the problem is: I've got to set up a load of POP mail accounts using the same server. e.g.: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and so on. Is there a simple way to duplicate them and change username, password and such later?
Danke schön!
Gunnar
Moin Gunnar.
None that I'm aware of because you can't create multiple email accounts in Mail that utilize the same user name and incoming mail server.
When creating an email account in Mail, an account named folder is created at the first level within the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account.
This account and associated mailbox filing structure prevents having multiple accounts in Mail that utilize the same user name and incoming mail server or duplicating an existing account and changing the user name, incoming mail server and password later.
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