IMAP and POP

I want to access GMAIL from my application MAIL in MAC OS X and find that I don't understand IMAP or POP and why I should choose one over the other to setup my account. What are the advantages / disadvantages of one over the other? I use email only in my stand alone iMac.
Thanks
Andy

IMAP leaves mail stored on the server and synchronizes server mailboxes with client mailboxes, and thus is much preferable if you will ever be checking mail from more than one machine. (Even if you just may want to check your mail via GMail's web interface every now and then.) POP, on the other hand, is meant for downloading and removing messages from the server, and thus prevents easy access from multiple computers.

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Imap and POP not working together properly

hi guys,
i was trying to search through past threads for this answer but to no avail. anyways, i had and imap and pop(gmail) account through apple mail. only recently, something just happened and every setting on all my apps and my doc and desktop were set to default. this means all the accounts that i had setup through mail also got erased. i reset everything but here are the problems i encounter:
a/ when i write a message with my gmail account, it does not send a copy to the sent folder. the imap account does. i checked the pref and the check marks are present where they need to be.
b/ when i send mail to the trash, any trash from the gmail is sent to a gmail subfolder under the trash icon...but i can't access this trash through my main trash icon.
c/ the other subfolder for my trash icon is one names "on my mac". how can i create a subfolder that only intakes stuff from my imap account. that way, the main trash icon accesses all trash and the the subfolders access their respective trash, depending on the help.
i realize its alot but if anyone can help me on any of these, it would be most appreciated.
thanks in advance
arsh
Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9) It's my baby...

Hi arsh.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what’s it all about?
Report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/ folder in the Finder.
In order to post the exact file names and avoid typing mistakes, proceed as follows. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, if you’re looking at it in View > as List mode, first collapse any expanded folders so that the Finder only shows the files and folders at the first level of ~/Library/Mail/. Now, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post.
Before actually posting that information, edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you should keep private, e.g. replace any real username with “username” to hide your real email address. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Locate within ~/Library/Mail/ the account folder affected by the problem — its name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. Repeat the procedure to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.
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I don’t understand your third question, but each mail account has its own Trash and there is also an On My Mac Trash where deleted messages are moved if they were previously stored in a custom “On My Mac” mailbox or in a locally stored mailbox associated with an IMAP account (i.e. a mailbox for which Store messages on the server has been turned OFF in Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors).

Need IMAP and POP for solaris 8

Hello,
I need to install impa and pop agent for solaris 2.8 machine and can anyone please help out where I can file them or buy them ?
Thanks
-K.Kim-
[email protected]

There is a freeware IMAP daemon available on the
Solaris 8 companion software CD.
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware/index.html
-- richard

Redirecting Multiple IMAP and POP Accounts to iCloud?

My ultimate goal is be able to sync all of my mail between my desktop and laptop Macs (both on Yosemite). I have 8 email accounts — a few IMAPs, but mostly POPs. I have thousands and thousands of emails saved in Apple Mail mailboxes. Rather than converting each account individually to IMAP, can I redirect all of them to iCloud? And, if so, can I then maintain all of those accounts and all of those mailboxes, without countless hours of work?

Excellent and helpful answer, Roger. Thank you very much. That opened my eyes to a couple of things.
I've been dragging my feet (for a year or two) on doing this, in part because I feel more confident in storing my massive email history locally than somewhere that I can't see. It's just old-school thinking. I do have my Apple Calendar and Contacts now in iCloud, so an old dog can learn new tricks. Still, I back them up locally, maybe once a week, plus I have Time Machine going all the time. And I back up my Mail and Mail Downloads folders, both for safekeeping, as well as to bring my laptop momentarily up-to-date with my desktop Apple Mail.
So, if I were to store my entire Apple Mail life in iCloud, with all of my individual email accounts actually living there (not just pointed there, as I was considering), is there an easy and fast way to keep a local backup? (Zipping and backing up the Mail and Mail Downloads folders literally takes something like four hours.) Or would Time Machine also be backing up what's in the cloud, too, without any effort?
And now to you other eye-opening point about replying. If I actually convert all of my accounts to IMAP and sync all of those accounts with iCloud, would I then be able to send and receive emails as I do now, through my other servers, and using my various email addresses and signatures? By the way, my primary server is Comcast, if that makes any difference.

Sent mail - Imap and Pop

Hi,
Until recently I was using Gmail Pop on Apple Mail for my emails. I am now using Imap and things seem to have gotten a bit more complicated.
I would still like to use Gmail Pop on a different computer as backup system. I just opened the Pop Gmail and noticed that while I was able to download all the messages I had sent through Gmail Webmail, I cannot retrieve the messages I sent from Apple Mail (Gmail Imap) directly. All the messages do appear however on the Gmail webmail sent folder (well, I guess I should say label, since Gmail does not use folders).
(Just for clarification, the Webmail sent messages always showed up in my Inbox so, as it was the case in the past, I have to drag them manually to the sent folder. Might not be the the best solution but I am ok with this).
I have the feeling this might have to do with Gmail labels or something like it. Perhaps there is a way of labelling Gmail Imap sent messages in a way that can be downloaded to the Pop account. I would really like to download to my Mail Pop account all my Gmail sent messages.
Thanks,
Pablo

I looked in my user folder and for one important pop account there are two folders:
one has the domain name after the user name and inside that there is a sent messages folder with mbox messages.
However when I was setting the account up it failed and I had to put an IP number in the incomming mail server box to get it online. That account is listed inside my mail folder as well but has no messages.
How do I get them to merge?

Problem when "Checking for Mail" using IMAP and POP

Hello,
I have an iPhone 3G running 2.0.1 and created 3 mail accounts (1 Gmail using IMAP, and 2 using POP).
When I first set up the phone 2 days ago the installer copied the settings from my Mac and emails on my iPhone showed up correctly.
Since yesterday something is screwed up because when I try to fetch new email I only see "Checking for Mail" at the bottom of the screen but nothing happens and new emails don't show up.
Any idea how to fix this problem?
Thanks!

FYI you don't actually have to completely reboot the phone. From inside your email program, push and hold the HOME button for 7 or 8 seconds until it exits email and dumps you back at your home screen. That causes a hard-quit of the email program and will reset it. You should begin getting email again immediately after.
Here's hoping Apple fixes that anomaly on their next release...

Imap and Pop not working on 2013 servers - BAD Command received in Invalid state

Hello,
We recently moved our frontend server over to Exchange 2013. So now both internally and externally all mail traffic will flow through the new servre. After battling issue after issue I was able to get the new exchange environment working as it should. The
only problem is that IMAP and POP3 logins do not work for 2013 mailboxes. It works fine for 2010 but not 2013. Here are the results from the testconnectivity website:
The IMAP service is being tested.
There was an error testing the IMAP service
Additional Details
Secured: CN=mail.domain.com, OU=Unified Communications, O=Companhy, POBox=United States, S...
S: * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
C: 1 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=PLAIN UIDPLUS CHILDREN IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+
1 OK CAPABILITY completed.
C: 2 LOGIN user <password>
S: 2 NO LOGIN failed.
C: 3 LIST "" *
S: 3 BAD Command received in Invalid state.
Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.MailProtocolException: 3 BAD Command received in Invalid state.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.ImapProtocolTester.SendCommand(String command, String logString)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.BaseProtocolTest.PerformTestReally()
Elapsed Time: 1829 ms.
Here are my Get-ImapSettings from the mailbox server
RunspaceId : 1c5069f4-520f-4f62-88d6-affd0e0796d7
ProtocolName : IMAP4
Name : 1
MaxCommandSize : 10240
ShowHiddenFoldersEnabled : False
UnencryptedOrTLSBindings : {[::]:143, 0.0.0.0:143}
SSLBindings : {[::]:993, 0.0.0.0:993}
InternalConnectionSettings : {MAIL4.domain.com:993:SSL, MAIL4.domain.com:143:TLS}
ExternalConnectionSettings : {}
X509CertificateName : mail.domain.com
Banner : The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
LoginType : SecureLogin
AuthenticatedConnectionTimeout : 00:30:00
PreAuthenticatedConnectionTimeout : 00:01:00
MaxConnections : 2147483647
MaxConnectionFromSingleIP : 2147483647
MaxConnectionsPerUser : 16
MessageRetrievalMimeFormat : BestBodyFormat
ProxyTargetPort : 143
CalendarItemRetrievalOption : iCalendar
OwaServerUrl :
EnableExactRFC822Size : False
LiveIdBasicAuthReplacement : False
SuppressReadReceipt : False
ProtocolLogEnabled : True
EnforceCertificateErrors : False
LogFileLocation : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Logging\Imap4
LogFileRollOverSettings : Daily
LogPerFileSizeQuota : 0 B (0 bytes)
ExtendedProtectionPolicy : None
EnableGSSAPIAndNTLMAuth : True
Server : MAIL4
AdminDisplayName :
ExchangeVersion : 0.10 (14.0.100.0)
DistinguishedName : CN=1,CN=IMAP4,CN=Protocols,CN=MAIL4,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group
(FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Company,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=willowcreek,DC=org
Identity : MAIL4\1
Guid : 593e53d7-64e5-4170-b897-47b1af944a5b
ObjectCategory : domain.com/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Protocol-Cfg-IMAP-Server
ObjectClass : {top, protocolCfg, protocolCfgIMAP, protocolCfgIMAPServer}
WhenChanged : 2/4/2015 8:45:39 AM
WhenCreated : 1/22/2015 1:48:43 PM
WhenChangedUTC : 2/4/2015 2:45:39 PM
WhenCreatedUTC : 1/22/2015 7:48:43 PM
OrganizationId :
OriginatingServer : NS6.domain.com
IsValid : True
ObjectState : Unchanged
The IMAP service is being tested.
There was an error testing the IMAP service
Additional Details
Secured: CN=mail.willowcreek.org, OU=Unified Communications, O=Willow Creek Community Church, POBox=United States, STREET=67 E Algonquin Road, L=South Barrington, S=IL, PostalCode=60010, C=US
S: * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
C: 1 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=PLAIN UIDPLUS CHILDREN IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+
1 OK CAPABILITY completed.
C: 2 LOGIN ssimpson <password>
S: 2 NO LOGIN failed.
C: 3 LIST "" *
S: 3 BAD Command received in Invalid state.
Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.MailProtocolException: 3 BAD Command received in Invalid state.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.ImapProtocolTester.SendCommand(String command, String logString)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.BaseProtocolTest.PerformTestReally()
Elapsed Time: 1829 ms.
The IMAP service is being tested.
There was an error testing the IMAP service
Additional Details
Secured: CN=mail.willowcreek.org, OU=Unified Communications, O=Willow Creek Community Church, POBox=United States, STREET=67 E Algonquin Road, L=South Barrington, S=IL, PostalCode=60010, C=US
S: * OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
C: 1 CAPABILITY
S: * CAPABILITY IMAP4 IMAP4rev1 AUTH=PLAIN UIDPLUS CHILDREN IDLE NAMESPACE LITERAL+
1 OK CAPABILITY completed.
C: 2 LOGIN ssimpson <password>
S: 2 NO LOGIN failed.
C: 3 LIST "" *
S: 3 BAD Command received in Invalid state.
Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.MailProtocolException: 3 BAD Command received in Invalid state.
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.ImapProtocolTester.SendCommand(String command, String logString)
at Microsoft.Exchange.Tools.ExRca.Tests.ImapPop.BaseProtocolTest.PerformTestReally()
Elapsed Time: 1829 ms.

When you do the telnet test make sure you enter in the command like below verbatim. Right before you type login you need to add some preceding character in my case the > sign.
* OK The Microsoft Exchange IMAP4 service is ready.
> login jchong password (make sure you type a preceding character first like the > sign)
> OK LOGIN completed.
James Chong MCITP | EA | EMA; MCSE | M+, S+ Security+, Project+, ITIL msexchangetips.blogspot.com

Mail server stops IMAP and POP services, SMTP won't work

Hello fellow Lion Server users,
I am trying hard to get my mail server productive. I want to fetch mails from my ISP's IMAP mail server and distribute it to all my devices via my own mail server. Also the mails shall be sent via ISPs SMTP.
After managing it being able to send and receive email in the way I want I realized that web server was down. Because I want to use the integrated web mail and Wiki server I had to fix that. After restoring to default values in httpd.conf and others I got that problem solved just to realize that I am not able any more to send and receive email. I would be grateful if you could help me out.
The current status is that Server admin app claims the mail server still running, but POP, IMAP stopped whilst SMTP is running. In my mail.app I can send Emails successfully but they never reach the addressee. Receiving is just not possible at all. The connection doctor in integrated in Mail.app won't find a problem. It claims SMTP and IMAP connections I used before are working.
I use a dyndns forwarding to my server at home. Lion server is up to date. Port forwarding in the router is enabled (for each port Apple suggests).
Even in local network (with this very machine) it is not possible to successfully send or receive emails using localhost. My guess is that something went wrong in the configuration files but I don't know where I have to look and for what exactly.
I also tried a program called MailServe after running into the first problems with the mail server which did so far a good job in configuring of Postfix, Dovecot and Fetchmail but now I am stuck.
Do you have any hints for me, your help would be highly appreciated. Thank you.

I think I may have just figured out a part of this puzzle. I have more than just my att account set up in Mail. Even though all of my accounts are setup to use the ATT SMTP server only (with the appropriate ATT login info) I am getting the same rejection notices as everyone else.
I noticed that in the rejection notice though, that it was saying I was sending mail from my other main account, not my sbcglobal (ATT) account. I thought that was strange since I set up all my accounts to use the SBC (ATT) login info for ATT's SMTP Server. So obviously it is a problem in Mail. Mail is somehow confused and sending some wrong piece of info to the SMTP server. When I changed the sender from my other account to my SBCGLOBAL account, the mail went right out with no other problems.
So this isn't a solution for those of you who are struggling with only an ATT account, but I think it points to a possible problem within Mail. The answer might be to delete the accounts in Mail and set them back up again. It's looking like Apple might need to make a tweak to Mail to fix this if indeed this is the correct cause. Hope this helps someone.

Mail program not working....IMAP and POP not working, Exchange does

Suddenly my Apple e-mail program, mail, does not send or receive mail. The IMAP account (iCloud) and the POP account (earthlink) do not connect. My Exchange account does. I can get to the e-mails by going directly to the provider using Safari. As far as I know, I have changed nothing.

Verify your EarthLink settings:
Earthlink Settings
http://support.earthlink.net/email/email-server-settings.php
I would retire the EarthLink account and use iCloud instead. You mentioned using Open DNS. Use Namebench to see what comes up as best options for your location. You can have more than one. It defaults to the top setting, but if it fails to connect, it trys other options listed.
Test your network connection.
Download and run: Namebench (free) http://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Once you have the fastest domain name servers, you then have to manually change your DNS settings in System Preferences/Network/
Select different browsers under the popup. I got varying results when using different browsers. Surprisingly, Firefox suggest Google Public DNS as primary, but Chrome and Safari gave me same settings.
System Preferences > Network > Select you internet service (be it Airport, Ethernet etc) then click advanced tab > Select DNS and enter the settings

Conflicting Mail has both IMAP and POP

A friend called me earlier today because his iMac (2009) had run out of space on the main disk.
He had watched it counting down free space while he was doing nothing.
After digging about and clearing out Trash, I found that his Apple Mail was 136GB in size and that it had two accounts defined. Both were his email address; once defined as POP and another as IMAP. When Mail was open and in the foreground, one could see the "twirling clock face" (busy icon) beside both.
I deleted the IMAP account (he'd said he has nothing important in his mail) and the newly freed up space stopped counting down. So that was a start. I then thought we could reboot. However, that was held up because Apple Mail couldn't shut down. I suspect it may be unwinding whatever it had done. I've now left it for the day and it's sitting there, doing lots of IO but not shutting Apple Mail.
Tomorrow, if Apple Mail hasn't shut down I plan a Forced Quit, followed by a reboot and Verify Disk.
Does that sound reasonable?
Is there a mode of starting Apple Mail where it might rebuild its mail?
After this, any suggestions on where I might find files that could be trashed?
136GB for Mail sounds gigantic. (My own email, which goes back 9 years, is 8GB in size).
Your suggestions will be welcome.

Force quit it, but first...
Open Console in Utilities & see if there are any clues or repeating messages, especially about Mail.
One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport, or some USB or Firewire device, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts (Users & Groups in later OSX versions)>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed. Or an errant process eating up RAM.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons
Mail can Rebuild a highlighted account by using the Mailbox menu item>Rebuild.

Restoring smtp, postfix, imap, and pop after upgrade to Tiger

Dear Fellow Mac users:
I was a party to a number of discussions in this and other fora regarding how
to fix mail server software which is disrupted by an upgrade from OS 10.2 to OS 10.4. After some months and some pain, I have finally restored these services on my G4 workstation running Mac OS 10.4. The steps were many and are
a bit too numerous to post here, so I have put them in a web page:
http://www.sal.wisc.edu/~bonomo/applemailfix.html
It is my hope that I can save some other poor soul out there
some time and grief.
Rich
Mac OS X (10.4)
Mac OS X (10.4)

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
There are many topic in this forum about just what you are experiencing, and two very recent ones are:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1800343#1800343
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1801311&#1801311
If you read these, I think you will know what to do. Let me know if you have any questions about these various steps.
With any mailbox you can see in Mail (now or subsequent to these procedures) can be a source to transfer into any other mailbox, including your Inbox -- just click on Edit when in a source mailbox, Select All, and then click on Message in the Menu Bar, and choose Move To (or Copy To).
Hope this helps.
Ernie

The Skinny on IMAP vs POP Email and work arounds

     It took me a while to figure out email so I figured I'd share what I've learned so far. Do feel free to reply with more useful tips for us all if anyone has some.
First email accounts are either IMAP or POP and the first step was figuring out the difference:
IMAP
   Mirror of the server
What is done one place is done everywhere because you are looking at the server.
       Advantage: can access email from multiple devices/locations
       Disadvantage: May have to mark as read individually when adding to a new device
POP
   Independent of the server
What is done one place stays that place because you have moved it from the server.
        Advantage: once it's delivered the mail can be viewed offline
        Disadvantage: where ever it is delivered once, the other divices do no have access to the mail
Think of the server as a huge mailbox as big as a room!
   IMAP
With IMAP the mail stays in the mailbox until you delete it permenently,
    but once it is deleted it has moved out of the main part of the huge mailbox into the trash can in the room of the huge mailbox (the trash folder settings decide when the trash gets taken out and deleted permenently) when deleted permenently it is no longer in the trash can in the huge mailbox it has been taken out the the dump.
If you read it then it's like opening the mail but leaving it in the huge mailbox.
If you move it to another folder then it's like moving it to the desk in the room but still in the mailbox.
   POP
With POP the mail is taken out of the mailbox and moved to the computer (in the other room)
Once you request/download your mail it is taken off of the server and whatever is done with the mail the server no longer has access to it
If you read it (or move it to a folder) it is the same thing as Mom taking the mail out of the huge mailbox and putting it in the car, if Dad checks the mailbox the mail may have been delivered by Dad is not going to find it because it is no longer in the mailbox it is with Mom in the car.
Here a link that helped me figure it out:
http://www.office.mvps.org/glossary/pop_imap.html
So after you decide wether you want to use IMAP or POP which email carrier is which?
Microsoft Exchange is IMAP
MobileMe is IMAP
Yahoo! mail is IMAP
Hotmail is IMAP
Gmail is IMAP can be set up as POP
     see here for that: https://discussions.apple.com/message/8149520#8149520
~Most web-based email is IMAP (if it is designed to be accessed via the web by ANY computer it's likely IMAP)
     settings for incomming/outgoing servers:   http://www.emailaddressmanager.com/tips/mail-settings.html
AOL is POP can be set up as IMAP (origanally intended to be used with only one computer via the ISP)
      see here for that: http://email.about.com/od/aoltips/qt/Access_an_AOL_Email_Account_with_any_POP_IM AP_Email_Program.htm
Comcast is POP
Qwest is POP
Earthlink is POP
~Most ISP (internet service providers) email from a cable/internet company of a business specific email is a POP account
Use this chart HT1277 ( http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1277 ) for contacting your service provider or IT department to acquire the proper settings for your email account!
Finally, as promised, work around for your email:
    If you only have access to a POP email account and it won't work on your iPhone or want it to act like an IMAP account, then follow these steps~
1)   Get a free IMAP email account (using Gmail for this example)
2) Sign in to your Gmail account
3) Click the gear icon in the upper-right
4) Select Gmail settings
5) Select the Accounts and Import tab
6) Under Send mail as, click Add another email address
7) In the 'Email address' field, Enter your name and alternate email address (ie the POP address)
8) Choose use Gmail's servers to send your mail
9) Click Next Step>>
10) Click Send Verification
             (Gmail will send a verification message to your alternate email address to confirm that you own it)
11) Open your other account and click the link in the message Gmail sent
12) Add your new Gmail account to your iphone
You will be able to send, receive, reply, forward, delete, and manage folders of your other address through your Gmail address on your phone and it will appear to the recipients as though it came from your other address.

Allan, I have run into questions in this area recently since I got my iPhone. I have a long time Charter ISP POP email account which I've accessed with Apple Mail. This has worked fine. I also have a Yahoo web based account which I've also used separately.
Now when I set up my Yahoo account on my iPhone it worked great. But when I set up the Charter account it resulted in an IMAP account with incoming and outgoing servers being mobile.charter.net. Charter website implies that all email accounts on all mobile devices must be set up like this. My question is whether I can, or should, try to set up the account manually as a POP on my iPhone so it will behave similarly to the Charter POP account in my iMac?
I've run into some conflicts after using my iPhone to access my Charter email. My inbox on my desktop iMac in Apple Mail will give me the message that another client is accessing the email account when I try to get new mail soon after my iPhone has been accessing the Charter account. I've wondered whether this is a conflict between IMAP and POP?
Confusing. Thanks.
Steve M.

Mail only allows IMAP and not POP

hi folks
yes i know, hold down the option key and get the POP option, but this is still not working.
for YEARS i used pop with no problems, now all of a sudden i have IMAP only and it appears to be duplicating thousands of emails in secondary mailboxes below the primary ones.
my mac expert told me this is cos i'm using IMAP.
so, i went into gmail, changed one account to IMAP DISABLED / POP ENABLED and i set up the POP account in mail.
it doesnt work!
how is it possible i could be working fine for years and now all this happens? i change NOTHING...
at times, my accounts just plain stops working!
what's going on? this is all such a DRAG!

Instead of using the large preset account settings icons (Google, AOL, Yahoo, etc), use the "Other" option on the bottom. You'll have to enter more info manually, but, if offered by your service provider, you can choose between IMAP and POP by the settings you provide.

When I set up my e-mail on the ipad, it gives me only the imap and not pop. How do I get the choice of imap or pop

Can someone help me set up my pop3 e-mail account on ipad? When I set it up as indicated, I should get both imap or pop, but I get only the imap. How do I change it to pop?

Instead of using the large preset account settings icons (Google, AOL, Yahoo, etc), use the "Other" option on the bottom. You'll have to enter more info manually, but, if offered by your service provider, you can choose between IMAP and POP by the settings you provide.

How do I change my email account from IMAP to POP on my MacBook Pro

My email provider has changed and no longer uses Yahoo IMAP, so I need to change the email to a POP account but my MacBook automatically chooses Yahoo IMAP when I try to create a new account. Any suggestions how I can change from IMAP to POP?

My email provider is BT and they have just moved me from BT Yahoo Mail to BT Mail. I deleted the Yahoo email account and then used the Other Account option to input BT Mail, but unfortunately my MacBook decided that it still wanted me to use BT Yahoo. So for several weeks I keep getting locked out of my mail and get the message box "Can't access mail' or something like that and wants me to put in the Yahoo mail password which is no longer valid. I don't actually want to use POP (and actually have no idea what IMAP AND POP do!), but when I contacted BT support they suggested that I needed to use POP for BT Mail. However having trawled the BT site I think what I was told was a load of rubbish. So I suppose the real question is how to get rid of Yahoo Mail.

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