Mail account setup via mail gets blocked by server

My friend used the same host as me. I copied all my settings (imap with in and outgoing pasword). But somehow he is shut out of the server as it records bruteforce attacks from his mac. We reset the account many times. Pasword is correct. The provider accepted him back from the blacklist. But when we reconnect we are shut out again. Yet on my mac it works fine. Any tips?

Hi there,
I also use BT & haven't had any problems although I tend to save my documents to the Desktop & then send them either by dragging them to the Mail Icon or by creating a new e-mail & then attaching the document. Have you tried sending via these methods? Also, are you able to send e-mails without attachments without any problems?
Ben

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I finally was able to open the "Mail" program's "Account info" window (it's not easy to find!), and it reveals that the same 15 pending emails are still awaiting me on my ISP's mail server, even after repeated fetchings of them. While watching both the "Account info" window and "Activity" window, I once again click "Get All New Mail," watch the 15 emails seemingly getting fetched, but when it's all over (3 seconds) -- they're still on the server and still not on my hard drive.
I don't know how to fix this glitch because the program doesn't seem to think anything's going wrong!
Obviously I must have mistakenly clicked some setting that prevents the emails from being downloaded to my computer, but I've scanned the Preferences pane and every single menu option dozens of times, and can't find what I've done wrong.
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As to "Rules":
I'd already investigated that many times. The only "Rule" was a disabled unchecked rule about "Get Apple News," a subscription to the Apple RSS feed. However, at your suggestion, I also just now deleted it, and then refetched the mail afterward, with the the exact same unchanged result -- still nothing arrives. (Tried several times.)
As for the "Junk" mail setting:
The only two boxes checked were "Enable Junk Mail filtering," and "When junk mail arrives, mark it as junk mail, but leave it in my Inbox." So, even if the incoming mail had been marked as junk, I still should have seen it in my Inbox. Also, Junk's "Advanced" box is greyed out and unavailable to click. All that is moot, however, because I just now unchecked "Enable Junk Mail filtering," so the entire Junk preference pane is now greyed out and disabled; and even after that, when I check for new mail, I get the exact same problem as before, unchanged.
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My account is supposed to be a "POP" account, and it is indeed shown as being a "POP" account in the Accounts preference pane.
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When checking mail, in the left-hand sidebar on my "Inbox" window, at the bottom is a section called "MAIL ACTIVITY." When I check for new mail, in this activity box it says "Incoming messages, 1 of 24" then "Incoming messages 2 of 24" all the way up to "Incoming messages 24 of 24," with a blue progress bar filling up below it -- +exactly as you would expect if the mail was successfully being fetched+ (it's up to 24 messages on the server now). Yet after all that, after all 24 are shown as being fetched -- *there is still NOTHING new in my !nbox*! (Or in any other mailbox.) And in the previously mentioned "Account Info" window, afterwards all the emails are still shown as awaiting me unfetched on the server.
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This is a repost of a now-closed question. I'm only re-posting so that I can mark the solution from @sfhowes as "Accepted Solution" which nicely solves the issue:
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How can I disable or bypass the "Mail Account Setup" wizard and just create a new account in the "Account Settings" panel? The "Mail Account Setup" wizard won't let me get that far without jumping through all its unhelpful hoops, and I don't know to disable or bypass it.
Accepted Solution at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1022384#answer-635043
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Relevant enhancement request: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353838
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