How to set up an Imap account in Mail?

Hello,
I did a fresh install of mountain lion. Everytime i try to create a mail account it automatically makes it a POP. Anyone know how to manually create an account to use IMAP?
Thanks

Like Lanny said, it depends on the email service. To add to it, I tried adding my Gmail account with both POP and IMAP enabled and it defaulted to use IMAP. Do you know if IMAP is available for your email service?
Most email providers will show "Configure Email in Mail Client (Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, etc)" in their support section.

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