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... > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" 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/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
