Out of curiosity, what's so bad about IMAP in this instance?

Ed

tcrooks wrote:
> If you add an account using File>Add Account then on the initial panel
> put in a false Gmail address and password (something like
> [email protected] and xxx) then click on continue you should get a panel
> which allows you to change the account type from IMAP to POP as a drop-
> down menu item. Then you just have to fill out the rest manually with
> the actual Gmail information including the real email account name and
> password wherever needed. This does assume that you're using Apple
> Mail 4.
> 
> On 13 Oct, 22:27, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I want to move my gmail stuff to Mail from Mailsmith (so I can
>> concentrate on the work stuff in Mailsmith) but Mail insists on
>> creating an IMAP account. The gmail help page doesn't seem to
>> anticipate this happening. I'm accessing it via Pop on Mailsmith
>> and want to carry on doing so occasionally so IMAP is useless to me.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to force it to use POP? It doesn't seem
>> possible to change it once the account has been setup...
> > 


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