POP account creation in Mail 4.5

I am trying to set up a pop account for retrieving e-mails with Mail 4.5, and Mail forces me to create a IMAP account while I need POP. How can one unselect or deactivate the "smart" account configuration, or manually create an account?

Folks,
I found out the solution to my own problem: when prompted for account creation, one has to type a WRONG password, which then makes a next screen appear with a pop-up menu from which one can choose IMAP, POP and a couple other options.

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No other mailboxes in Mail will be available on the server with your .Mac account via webmail access and this is the same behavior with any email client such as the Mail.app.
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