I do not have any understanding as to the difference between the two of them. I do not know what pop is or what imap is. However, I was going by the example of what someone had set up for me on another gmail account. On Nov 15, 2010, at 3:45 PM, Joshua Loya wrote:
> Out of curiosity, why did you decide to go with pop3, as opposed to imap? > There might be a good reason to do so, but I can't think of one. > > -Joshua > On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Christina wrote: > >> I don't know what I am doing wrong but I am trying to add a gmail account to >> apple mail and it just won't work. I have followed all the steps to the >> best of my ability and I just cannot get it to work. The closest I've come >> is getting an error message saying that pop.gmail.com cannot be verified and >> may be a security risk if I continue. Those are not the exact words but >> it's the general idea. Are there any ideas as to what is going on. I've >> read everything I could on the gmail website to see why I've gotten this >> error message and also as to why this is not working at all. I currently >> have a pop gmail account working in apple mail and I've tried using similar >> settings for the new gmail address but I cannot get it to work. On the >> gmail side I did enable pop mail so that isn't the problem. Someone else >> set up the first gmail account for me but I just cannot seem to figure out >> how to set up the second account on my own. >> >> Thanks for any hints, >> Christina >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
