POP versus IMAP? Spark/xtra.co.nz

Hey there, JMCWS.

It appears you're trying to add your email account, which uses POP, but you're only able to choose IMAP instead. It's important you're able to add your email account to your Mac. To confirm, is this happening after you select "Other Mail Account" (as seen in the following article) when setting up your account? Add an email account to Mail on your Mac Do you encounter the same issue if you try adding your email in a temporarily new test user? Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac This can show us if the issue is only happening in your current user or any user on your Mac, which can help with possible next steps.

Also, if you need the settings to input for your email account to successfully set it up, you might be able to find it here: Mail Settings Lookup or from your email service provider.

Take care.

To bypass the automatic setup, you have to enter bad username/password data when it asks. It should fail to resolve the account and let you continue to manually configure the account. You will. need to know the inbound and outbound server settings.

Maybe it's not the IMAP/POP issue that does that with Gmail...

It's not. Goolag keeps a copy of everything you send or receive so they can easily harvest your information when needed.

Mail maps the All Mail label to the Archive folder since Catalaina (I think).