Mail - Create POP Account

When I try to create a POP account in Mail I am presented with the “Add Account” series of windows. However, it seems to start with the assumption that
I wish to create an IMAP account and automatically enters the appropriate data for doing so. How do I get it to recognise that I want to set up a POP account or, alternatively, how do I bypass the automated set-up process and do it manually? I am using Mail 5.1.

Click [+], enter your Name/Email/Password, then hold down the 'Option(Alt)' key, click Continue, and you will be able to select IMAP or POP
how do I set up a POP mail account

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Why can't Mail create POP account type?

Version 8.2 seems to allow only IMAP.
But I want POP for my new email address.
What am I missing?

In mail:
Mail -> Add Account...
Select "Add Other Mail Account..." and click "Continue".
Fill in the account details in the next dialog. When you've done that, hold down the Option/Alt key. The "Create" button will change to "Next". While still holding Option, click "Next".
In the next dialog you will be able to select either IMAP or POP for the incoming mail server. Don't you just love Apple's way of making things "simple" sometimes?
As Kirk says, though, if your email provider doesn't offer a POP server you will be stuck with IMAP.

Why can't iOS Mail create POP account type?

I've created a new email address with my ISP.
I've created a new email account on my desktop Mac (Mail 8.2).
Now I tried to add the new email account in my iPad (iOS 8.1.3), but it doesn't give me the option to pick POP as account type. The credentials checks out and it becomes an IMAP email account! The Option modifier key doesn't seem to apply.
What am I missing?

No. It does not exist because "many people prefer it". It exists because email providers simply haven't killed off that service yet. POP3 is ancient. It was never designed to be used with multiple devices. You stand a higher chance of losing information when it doesn't play nice with the 'leave messages on server after download' request, which was tacked on to the standard as an afterthought, than you do using IMAP or Exchange protocols.
The only reason it still exists at all is because it doesn't cost the providers anything to leave it turned on. It's there. It "works", more or less... why bother disabling it?
1. That has more to do with how you manage your email than anything else. I'd much rather file it into a folder that makes sense than wade through hundreds of emails in my inbox trying to remember what I've already dealt with and what I haven't.
2. No, IMAP retrieval is not "glitchy". That's a problem with your email provider. Not IMAP.
3. False. Your perception of it may be different, but POP3 is not inherently "faster" than IMAP.
4. Or you could you know... just make backups on a regular basis.
I use multiple gmail accounts (IMAP), and multiple Exchange accounts. Having to manually manage those on multiple devices would be a nightmare. I don't want to have to delete or file something more than once. Life's too short to waste time like that.

Mail creates POP account automatically

I'm trying to add a Comcast account to my Mail. Comcast has both POP3 and IMAP accounts and I want the IMAP; I have all the settings info. But when I add an account in Mail, it asks me for the username/password/email address, and then automatically proceeds to create a POP3 account! There seems to be no place to choose IMAP specifically or enter the server info manually - it just goes right for the POP3 based on my comcast email address. How to overcome this?

Yep, but that wasn't my problem. I've got the IMAP settings and been through the Comcast approval etc. My problem is (was) that the Apple Mail automatically configured the account as POP3 and didn't give me an opportunity to say that it was IMAP, as soon as it saw the comcast.net email address. I have now solved it, by putting in a fake email address, and when Mail can't find it to autoconfigure, it lets you set the account type manually.

Can't create POP account

It happens that I can't create POP accounts, while I do easily with Entourage.
The same data in Entourage work while in Mail don't.
I can't understand why. Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
Thanks

Hector,
A subtle difference between Mail and Entourage, is in the use of Username. In Mail, what you enter in the Username box of Mail Preferences must be exactly what is required by the provider of the POP server -- this will either be the true username, which is the portion of the email address in front of the "@", which is how it is done for a .mac, or for some providers it must be the entire email address, repeated as the Username entry (this is how it must be for Gmail). You must test with each, or find a support document that provides the format you must enter as the Username.
I think Entourage, at least sometimes, is able to derive the Username from the email address, and negotiate through this choice.
Let me know if changing the form of the Username entry will resolve this.
Ernie

Folders in Mail with POP Account

Hi!
I would create folders in Mail with POP account. It is possible? Why not?
Thanks!

As James has explained - you need an IMAP email account in order to create additional mailboxes or folders on the iPad. Even though you may be able to create a folder on your computer - which is simply a locally stored folder - or on the POP account server, those will not sync to the iPad POP email account.

Missing Mail in POP account/ "Take account online in order to download it"?

Mail build 1.3.11 (OSX.3.9)
User has an issue with mail showing the following error (see snip below) message in a POP account. Actually, if this were IMAP it would make sense, but I've not yet seen this on a POP configuration in this applciation. After running the rebuild on the Inbox, these emails are now gone. Is there any way to retrieve these emails?
[snip]
The message from someone <[email protected]> concerning “Re:
paper” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this
account online in order to download it.
[end-o-snip]
Many thanks for any insight provided.

This error message indicates an "overstuffed" mailbox issue which means the mailbox has some corruption or is approaching or over the recommended size limit which is 1GB for Jaguar or Panther Mail.
If for the account's Inbox mailbox, quit Mail first and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) > INBOX.mbox.
Move the INBOX.mbox to the Desktop.
When re-launching Mail, a new (and empty) INBOX.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder. This will allow the Mail.app to function properly again and not risk losing any new received messages while working on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop to recover the existing messages.
Control-click on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop and at the menu window that appears, select Show Package Contents.
List the package content file names and size of each here.
This information is required before determining the next step to take to recover the existing messages.

Converting on mail.app POP account to IMAP? How can I do this?

Hello,
hope someone can help me. I just recently bought a domain name with all its software on GoDaddy. Unfortunaltely I found out, that the POP account offered, does not syncronize my mail between my iMac and iPhone, as Gmail or Yahoo do, these are IMAP accounts... Even though I tried through the mail.app assistent to sent up a new IMAP account, GoDaddy does not allow this. So I called them up, to know why, I would have to purchase an upgrade, to switch from POP to IMAP. My question: is there a way around this purchase? I have read, that many people leave their mail on the server, but would prefer my pop account to work as an IMAP , that is syncronize mail on my iMac and phone. I can not create a new IMAP account, while doing so GoDaddy server will tell me , that I can not connect to their server... What happens if I use the Yahoo server instead? Someone has a clue? Thank you in advanced for your responses. Hug, René

You're trying to do this in the wrong place. This is a bit complicated but I'll try to walk you through it.
First make sure you have a Google Apps account. This sill carry a charge, but I suspect it will be worth it. It is for me. Check here for details and to register: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html.
You will have to choose one of the ways to verify your domain ownership. More details here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60216
Next, you need to go to Godaddy.com. Log in to your account, then click "My Account" at the top of the page (or the equivalent in Spanish).
Click "Domains", then the green "Launch" button to the right of the domain you want to use.
Click the "DNS Zone File" tab
Scroll down to the "MX (Mail Exchanger" section and Google's settings found here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=174125
Once it's all set up, you can set up your imap accounts using Google's settings here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105694

Retrieving mail from POP account folders

I've kept my mail on the server for a while, and have created folders for different subjects. Now I'd like to keep all my mail on the Mac.
Getting the stuff from Inbox is easy, but I can't find a simple way to retrieve the contents of the folders. Is there a way to get Mail to do this, or do I have to empty each folder into Inbox and then retrieve mail?
Thanks
Bob
iMac intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

If this is a POP account, there is no way for Mail (or any other POP client for that matter) to download your mail from the server other than moving it to the server’s Inbox.

Unable to send Mail from POP account

I have an Iphone 4 and have upgraded the IOS from 5-1 to 6.1.3. Since then I have been receiving all my mails but i have been unable to send mails from my POP account. the notification "Cannot Send Mail. A copy has been placed in your Outbox. The receipient, "xxyyzz @ gmail . com " was rejected by the server" displayed. Please Help. the same thing happens when I configure my POP account on my Son's Iphone4, and there is no problem in receiving and sending mails from my Outlook. Please Help!!!!!
Can i revert back to IOS5.1.1?????

Contact your email provider and get the correct settings to use for the outgoing mail server (SMTP) on a mobile device. If it's email provided by your ISP, they have likely blocked email from outside their network from relaying to prevent spam.

Can't send mail to POP Account which has attachment or signature

Since installing the Update 10.4.6, I have been unable to send email to my pop account which has either a signature or an attachment (when there is no attachment or signature it works fine). I have cleared the caches using tiger cache cleaner. I have tried adding a new user account to mail. It doesn't work in Entourage either. I've reinstalled Mail. What else do you recommend?
Prior to installing the update, mail worked great for over a year!
Additional Information:
Whenever I press the send icon, the mail message disappears, then in the activity viewer it gives the message “Delivering message / Sending data (28% done) and hangs there for a long time and finally gives the following message:
Cannot send message using the server XXX
Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit Mail or change your network settings.
Whenever I send an email with text and a signature, the activity viewer it gives the message “Delivering message / Sending data (100% done) and hangs there for an extremely long time and finally gives the same message.

Mario_MM wrote:
For sending mail the POP server is not important what you need to check are the settings of the SMTP server. Verify the settings of the SMTP server again and compare it to your settings on your iMac.
Checked SMTP settings and they are identical to the working iMac. I had not changed any settings on my MBP when it stopped sending, plus it did work briefly last night with those settings, so I don't see how it could have anything to do with my settings being incorrect.
The only thing even remotely different that I did prior to this happening was to use it away from home. I was out of town and used someone else's wifi to send some emails, but can't see how that should matter. It was the same ISP that I use at home, so I never even had to change settings for remote access. I never touched a thing, but when I got home I could no longer send emails.

How to get rid of junk mail in POP account

Dear all,
I have a POP account which on my iMac/Macbook Pro perfectly weeds out almost all junk/spam. On my iPhone 4 however there is no junk mailbox so all junk goes in my Inbox with a ratio of 60 junk : 1 real mail message. Anyone?
Really looking forward to some briljant tips!
Cheers,
Michiel

With an email account/address that is so severly compromised, you may want to consider a new email account and address preferably an IMAP account for a number of reasons.
A 60 junk to one real email message ratio means you have inadvertently contributed to the problem and the email account provider has no spam filter at the server. Rendering any HTML included with spam/junk confirms that your email address is "known good" with the spammer that sent the message causing more spam/junk to be received. Clicking on any links included with a spam/junk message does the same. Providing your email address publicly for any reason also does the same. Spammers sell/trade their "known good" email address lists to other low-life spammers causing an endless cycle. Once the cat is that far out of the bag with an email address, there is no turning back. The iPhone's Mail app does not have a junk mail filter and may never have one, which wouldn't match the junk mail filter with the Mail app on your Mac anyway.
Get a new email address from an email account provider that supports IMAP access. Use the new email address to exchange email with family and friends ONLY. Use your existing severely compromised email address for online purchases and to be provided publicly. Never provide your new email address publicly for any reason. An IMAP account is specifically designed to be accessed with more than one email client with all server stored mailboxes kept synchronized with the server with each email client used to access the account. A POP account is from the early dark ages of email account access with an email client when most people had access to a single computer only and well before there were handheld cell phones and especially smart phones. A POP account is designed to be accessed with a single email client only.

Unable to create POP account on blackberry phones

Hi,
We have been struggling now for a month to simply setup a pop account on our blackberry phones.
We go to the email setup wizard and straight away it is asking for a username and password, we enter our email address for username and password of the email account for password, we click next and then it displays a message to enter the username, it keeps displaying this on both of our phones.
We have hotmail and yahoo accounts already setup on our phones, these were setup with no problems at all.
Also we have been able to setup pop accounts in the past with no problems.
We are unsure on what we need to do now in order to get this setup correctly.
I have followed these steps to try and resolve this but we dont seem to get the same pages pop up, we dont get no message to agree to any terms and conditions, just the option to enter username and password which does not work, like on step 4 of the below webpage.
http://www.laptopmag.com/advice/tips/how-to-setup-your-e-mail-account-on-a-blackberry.aspx?page=2
Please help!

Those instructions are old. Ignore then.
You are being asked for a USERNAME where it fails, right?
Is this the initial first screen you see after you click on the BlackBerry's email setup icon?
I suspect it is asking for your BIS data account username and password.
Or the BlackBerryID username and password.
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Cannot send/receive mail on POP account

Sorry I read previous threads about hotmail.
I have been trying to configure a pop account and an exchange account and have been unable to do such. Using a different macbook with OS 10.5.3 I was able to successfully. Any ideas what the issue might be or how to resolve?

Hi! If you have done it successfully on another Mac then use it to confirm the settings on each mail setup page including the advanced options to make sure every field is correct. Tom

Z10 Can Receive E-mails from POP Account But Cannot Send/Reply

I am getting seriously frustrated with the inability to send e-mail from this Z10 (bought on 3/28) through my POP account!
I have been able to set up and successfully send through a personal Gmail account but not my "work" POP account. Everything I have read in forums and discussed with my IP and Verizon Wireless points to a bug in the BB10 software. In BB7, even a POP account could be set up very simply and reliably. That was the beauty of BB - simple and reliable e-mail.
I am getting nowhere trying to find a fix or workaround. I reeeeeally wanted to believe that BB was back and that this would be a good phone for me, a BB fan (my third BB btw), but am just a day or two away from giving up and returning the thing. What good is a BlackBerry if you can't send e-mails???? Please help!
BlackBerry Help - what is the fix???!!!! I NEED IT TODAY!!!!!!!
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I have a similar problem. I have three email accounts and two work perfectly (a hosted server and a comcast). However, my Optonline email will not send out attachments or HTML when hitting Reply or Forward. The receiver sees the basic text response and the following (below). Optonline uses port 587 and i think POP, no SSL Optonline, BB and ATT are all looking at it, but no solution yet.
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