When I upgraded my MacBook Air from Mojave to Big Sur, the POP email from my personal domain vanished. The web hosting company does not offer IMAP. How can I make Apple Mail handle POP?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.6
fiberhome wrote:
When I upgraded my MacBook Air from Mojave to Big Sur, the POP email from my personal domain vanished. The web hosting company does not offer IMAP. How can I make Apple Mail handle POP?
Yes that is the Mail trick— the set up the account to accept POP.
Use the "Other" and trick it by supplying a bogus email address— this will prompt for more options to server settings...and here you can select POP
Add email accounts in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
fiberhome wrote:
When I upgraded my MacBook Air from Mojave to Big Sur, the POP email from my personal domain vanished. The web hosting company does not offer IMAP. How can I make Apple Mail handle POP?
Yes that is the Mail trick— the set up the account to accept POP.
Use the "Other" and trick it by supplying a bogus email address— this will prompt for more options to server settings...and here you can select POP
Add email accounts in Mail on Mac - Apple Support
It took some additional fiddling around to get POP email account to work, but adding the new account and using a bogus email address got me through the first level of the puzzle. It looks like some email may have lost in the process, but I didn't have anything archival on this machine. If you try doing this for a machine that has vital archival email, you may need to use Time Machine to recover the older stuff. Because I used my Apple ID to set the account up on my laptop (which I upgraded to Big Sur), and as a result a duplicate copy of the account appearing on my desktop.
Thanks
You can force it to a manual setup by entering bogus information for the password/account name.
How can I get POP email from my personal domain on Big Sur
