Setting up mail to retrieve from multiple POP accounts? Is it possible?

I am turned down when trying to add a second POP account to mail. Any advice? Is it even possible?

Welcome to the Discussions.
If truly separate POP email addresses, then the Username for each will either be the portion of the email address in front of the "@", or the entire email address, depending on the protocol of the provider. I suspect you are trying to enter the same Username in the setup for each?
More info, please.

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Mail hang when getting email from multiple POP accounts

I'm posting this issue again.
Mail hangs while getting new mail from multiple POP accounts almost every time. When it does, only Force Quit can quit it.
The following DID NOT fix the hang:
- Reconstructing all mail boxes
- Exporting, deleting and reimporting all mail boxes
- Disabling all rules
- Deleting anti-spam history
- Deleting all emails from all mail boxes
Testing each POP account individually while putty the other two offline works fine.
I also noticed that sometimes the new mail counter in Inbox displays 2-4 new messages while there is no new ones. Switching boxes/folders and back to Inbox fixes it.
The POP accounts are:
One plain text POP
One secure POP
One GMail POP
Can anyone help?

You’re welcome.
I did try to clear the junk mail preferences
The Junk Mail preferences cannot be “cleared”. What do you mean?
it crashes almost every single time.
It doesn’t crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly). It freezes (i.e. becomes unresponsive), right?
I transfered my data to a Mac Mini. I had the same exact problem on it too!
so it seems it has nothing to do with the OS plugins or the setup I have.
Well, that would depend on what exactly does “I transfered my data” mean...
Try first disabling all the rules in Preferences > Rules AND the junk filter in Preferences > Junk Mail. If the problem persists, proceed as follows.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
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.

Managing Mail from multiple POP accounts across two Macs

Hi Folks,
My Mail app is configured to download POP mail from my Gmail, Yahoo, and personal domain accounts, so that I can read it all in one place, and have a copy of messages on my computer.
I tried .Mac for a while last year, but because these are all POP accounts, the synchronization essentially meant that the same messages were downloaded to each Mac I used. At least, that's how it worked for me.
I now have to reconfigure one of my Macs, a PowerBook, due to a hard drive crash. And I'm thinking: If I want to use Mail on my Powerbook and my MacBook, would I essentially accomplish the same thing as .Mac synchronization by making sure each copy of Mail is configured to leave my messages (Gmail, Yahoo, personal) on the server? Wouldn't I then just have the same messages downloaded to each machine whenever I logged into Mail?
Just trying to wrap my head around the most efficient way to set this up. This approach wouldn't exactly be efficient, but it seems to me the most thorough without having IMAP available, and would allow me to read and respond to messages regardless of the computer I'm using at any given time. Does this make sense? Thanks for any insight.
Michael

would I essentially accomplish the same thing as .Mac synchronization by making sure each copy of Mail is configured to leave my messages (Gmail, Yahoo, personal) on the server? Wouldn't I then just have the same messages downloaded to each machine whenever I logged into Mail?
Yes: this is exactly how I do it, except that I set Mail on each machine to delete messages from the server after a week. You do this each account, in the 'Advanced' tab, and you have the choice of after 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or when messages are removed from the inbox. This prevent you clogging up the server, and as long as you use each machine within the specified period you will get all your messages downloaded to each one. Of course on one machine you won't know if a message has been read or answered on another, nor will you have a record of sent messages on other machines unless you Bcc the answers to yourself.
I have it set up to Bcc automatically (using QuicKeys but you could do it manually of course) so that each machine sends to an email address specific to that machine, from which it is forwarded to the main account: then using a rule that if a message comes from the machine it was sent on it's deleted, otherwise it's moved to the 'Sent' folder.

How do i set up Mail to receive from an internet account?

Hi.
I wonder if anyone can tell me how to set up Mail so I can check my messages from an internet based e-mail? I'm using Wanadoo and would like to able to receive messages straight to Mail rather than have to check them 'online'. Hope someone can help, thanks in advance.

Hello Tymon.
I checked Wanadoo's website and it appears you can create your Wanadoo account in Mail and with other email clients as a POP type account.
Wanadoo provides instructions for doing so using Windows Outlook Express but the required account settings are the same to create the account with the Mail.app such as:
At the Mail.app menu bar, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts. Select the + sign at the bottom of the accounts window to add a new email account selecting POP as the account type.
Account Description: Whatever you prefer such as Wanadoo.
Email Address Field: Enter your Wanadoo email address.
Full Name: Whatever you prefer which will be shown next to your email address when a message is received.
User Name: This should include everything after the '@' symbol for your Wanadoo email address. Note: If you use their Broadband service, do not include '@fs' at the end of your Username for email.
Password: Your Wanadoo account password.
Incoming Mail Server: pop.wanadoo.co.uk
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.wanadoo.co.uk
This should be all you need.
If your email address includes Freeserve instead of xxxxxx.wanadoo.co.uk, the incoming and outgoing mail servers are different.
Check this link.
http://www.wanadoo.co.uk/help/email/freeservesettings.htm

Cannot send mail from my POP account

I have a IPod Touch with the latest software installed (I believe that is 3.1.3).
I have 2 email accounts which I use, a MobileMe account which I am not having any problems with, but my POP account is having problems sending emails. I can receive emails just fine but when I send an email from my POP account I get the error "cannot send email - sender address was invalid". I have deleted the account and set it up as "Other" with all the same settings that are on my Mac but It still does not work. By the way the outgoing server is smtp.west.cox.net if that makes any difference.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you, Baforer. Between your solution and another person having the same problem, I was able to solve mine, an error message saying "Sender address is invalid" when I know my email address WAS correct.
For anyone else with this problem, I'm using comcast.net in the Northern Virginia area, I went into "Preferences" under the Mail menu (on my Mac), and clicked on "Accounts", Outgoing Mail (bottom of the page), hit button called "Server Settings" and see what port is displayed. In my case, like Baforer, it was 25. So exit out of Mail on your computer and go into Settings on your iPod Touch, Mail etc and go deep to Outgoing mail server, my case "smtp.comcast.net", enter, in next window, all the way at the bottom it says "Server Port"; click on that, a keypad will come up, erase whatever is displayed and enter 25 (or whatever was on your mail acct on your computer - previous step above) and you're finished. You'll here the familiar "whoosh" as those emails in your Outbox get sent on their way.

How often does Mail download from a POP account?

I'm trying to help a friend, but I'm not that Apple-savvy. I know in Windows mail clients, there are settings to adjust how often mail is downloaded from a POP server, but I couldn't find any such setting in my friend's MacBook mail application. He is running 10.4.11. Does it only download each time you launch the mail application or click the "Get Mail" button? Does it download on some pre-set schedule that can't be changed? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

"but I couldn't find any such setting in my friend's MacBook mail application."
I believe the equivalent setting is:
Mail>Preferences>General>*Check for new mail.*
"Does it download on some pre-set schedule that can't be changed?"
You can change the times for the +"Check for new mail"+ setting manually or use the computer setting.
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Can't get new Mail from my Pop-Account...

Hello,
I have a problem with Mail, as I can perfectly send but not receive Mails from my Pop-Account. The settings are fine and the problem came up suddenly. When I try to get mail from Pop-Account the application starts to load, shows the number of mails in the account, begins to count up the size and then stops. I can even see the title of the mails by opening the window of the Account, but Mail does not download them.
I would be really pleased if anybody could give me an advice what to do.
Thanks a lot an greeting from a German in Bahrain
Jan

Hello and thanks to both of you,
I am using Mail 3.1 and the Account is coming from Strato, a German provider. Before, I had no problems neither with receiving nor with sending, but suddenly it stoped. I tried another account (gmail) that worked without any problem. Also your advice with SSl and the ports did not help . I Also phoned the Helpline of the provider Strato without any result . Also the place does not change - it neither works at home nor at work.
Regards from a desperate Mac-User

Multiple POP accounts in Safari

I want to switch to Safari as my mail program but I have multiple POP accounts.
Each email has its own password. How can I get them all onto Safari?
It keeps telling me a already have a POP account when I try to enter another email address.
Thanks.

Hi Stacey,
I have multiple POP accounts in Apple's Mail program and each one works fine. So I'm not quite sure what is happening when you enter additional data for a new account.
To create a new account you select the + sign in the accounts tab in Mail's preferences. Once you do this, it will display a blank sheet for you to fill in your data for the next account. The data for the new account should be unique and match the account information set up with your ISP. The e-mail address cannot be duplicated. In other words, you can't have the same e-mail address for multiple accounts, even if the password is different.
Keith

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With my initial set up I had no problem. I have a large iTunes Library. 48k songs. Over 270 GB of files. I synced a few photos and some music for the AppleTV slide shows but everything else I was going to stream. Streaming is working wonderfully from MY user account but if I try and stream a similar sized library from another user account on the same computer it is "NO JOY". I get the "loading library" dialog with the little circle of dashes going round and round but it eventually gives up and does not load. I have tried this with iTunes running on my user account and with iTunes turned off on my user account and either way the library from the other user account will NOT load. I am at a loss here. The set up for the second user went smoothly. I clicked add a library and got a key code on my TV screen. AppleTV showed up in the devices column in iTunes of the second user account and accepted the key code but like I said earlier the library will just not load for streaming. Streaming from my first user account is still working well. I have not found any discussion topics dealing with streaming from multiple user accounts. Hopefully someone who is doing this will chime in and help me out if possible.

The only way I have been able to get this to work is to quit the iTunes that I am currently streaming from. Switch (on the computer) users to the library I want to stream from. Start iTunes on that user. If I follow this I can get AppleTV to load the library of the second user. If I do NOT quit iTunes from the first user it will not load the second user's library. If I have iTunes from the second user running at the same time I quit the first user's iTunes it will NOT load the second users library. I guess it is a bug and will need to be fixed with the next software release. I would like to be able to switch among user libraries at will and independent of which user is currently using the computer.

All emails from two POP accounts are gone prior to Dec 27. Gmails emails are fine.

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I have 4 email accounts in apple Mail. My mail is sending from the wrong account. even on "reply" it sends from a different account. I have 3 gmail accounts and one exchange server account. I choose which account to send from and it still sends from a

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Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
What are your selections in Mail Preferences/Junk Mail?
If moving messages marked as Junk to another mailbox, they should appear in a mailbox beneath the Junk Icon, but labeled with the name of your POP account. If you first move message to another, On My Mac mailbox, and subsequently mark as Junk, then I think then it might move to an On My Mac mailbox beneath the Junk Icon.
More info, please.

Transfer mail and contact from an old account to a new one ?

Hi,
The employe from the company where I got my internship are currently using mail address that are like [email protected] and the company wants them to
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This step-by-step article describes how to copy or how to move your Personal Address Book (PAB) from one computer to another
computer.
On all installations, including those with no e-mail accounts, Microsoft Outlook creates a default Outlook Address Book. The Outlook
Address Book consolidates all your Outlook Contacts folders. The Outlook Address Book is a virtual address book instead of a physical address book because Outlook does not store the Outlook Address Book as a file that is separate from your data store. The
Outlook Address Book provides a view to your Contacts folders.
Unlike the Outlook Address Book, a personal address book (PAB) is a physical address book that Outlook stores on disk that is separate
from your data store. You can add one PAB to an e-mail profile, and use the PAB to store additional contact information.
You can use the PAB to store personal addresses or to store other contact information that you want to keep separate from your other
Outlook data. Additionally, you can use a PAB to share addresses with other users. The PAB uses a .pab file name extension, and Outlook creates the PAB file when you add the PAB to your e-mail profile.
How to identify the PAB file that your e-mail profile uses
Start Outlook.
On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
Under Directory, click View or change existing directories or address books, and then click Next.
Under You can choose a directory or address book below to change or remove it, click Personal Address Book, and then
click Change.
Note the path of your PAB file that is in the Path box. You will require this information to find the PAB file in step 3 in the "How to copy the PAB file to
a second computer" section of this article.
For example, C:\Exchange\Mailbox.pab indicates that a PAB named Mailbox.pab is located on a Microsoft Exchange folder on your drive C.
Click OK, and then click Finish to close all dialog boxes.
On the File menu, click Exit.
How to copy the PAB file to a second computer
Quit all e-mail programs.
Start Microsoft Windows Explorer.
In the Folders pane, expand the folders to locate the PAB file whose path you took note of in step 5 in the "How to identify the PAB File that your e-mail profile
uses" section of this article.
Copy the PAB file to a 3.5 inch disk, and then use that disk to copy the PAB file to the second computer. Note the path of the PAB file on the second computer.
For example, if you copy the PAB file named Mailbox.pab to a folder that is named Address Book on drive C, the path of the address book is as follows:
C:\Address Book\Mailbox.pab
Alternatively, if your two computers are on the same network, you can copy the PAB file from the source computer to a network share on the second computer.
For more information about how to perform this task in Microsoft Windows, see your Windows printed documentation or your online Help.
Note You can save the PAB file in any folder on the destination computer as long as you remember the location.
How to configure your second computer to use the new PAB file
If you do not have the Personal Address Book service in your e-mail profile on the second computer, you must add the service before
you can add the new PAB file to your profile. To add the Personal Address Book service for the new PAB file, follow these steps:
Start Outlook.
On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
Under Directory, click Add a new directory or address book, and then click Next.
Click Additional Address Books, and then click Next.
In the Additional Address Book Types box, click Personal Address Book, and then click Next.
In the Path box, type the path of the PAB file that you copied to the second computer in step 4 in the "How to copy the PAB file to a second computer" section
of this article. Alternatively, you can click Browse to locate the PAB file.
Click OK.
If you receive the The E-mail account you have just added will not be start until you choose Exit from the file menu, and then restart Outlook prompt, click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit, and then restart Outlook. Your new PAB is now available.
If you have the Personal Address Book service in your e-mail profile on the second computer, you can change the service to use the
new PAB file. To change an existing Personal Address Book service to use the new PAB file, follow these steps:
On the second computer, start Outlook.
On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
Under Directory, click View or change existing directories or Address Books, and then click Next.
In the Outlook processes e-mail for these accounts in the following order list, click Personal Address Book, and
then click Change.
On the Personal Address Book tab, type the path of the PAB file that you copied to the second computer in step 4 in the "How to copy the PAB file to a second
computer" section of this article. Alternatively, you can click Browse to locate the PAB file.
Click the PAB file, click OK, and then click Finish.
On the File menu, click Exit.
Quit and then restart Outlook. Your new PAB is now available.
Note There can be only one Personal Address Book service per e-mail profile. There is not a method for merging
one PAB file with another. You can use the Outlook Import and Export Wizard to merge the active PAB entries in your Contacts folder.
Additionally, you can add both recipients and distribution lists to contacts that are in the Personal Address Book interface in
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.
For more information about the Outlook Import and Export Wizard, click Microsoft
Office Outlook Help on the Help menu,
type Outlook Import and Export Wizard in
the Search for box
in the Assistance pane, and then click Start searching to
view the topic.

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