No POP3 option available on iphone 4

I'd have to make an effort to set up an account to verify, but it sounds like it's trying your credentials and determining that your server supports IMAP, so that's how it sets it up... POP3 is old technology and will not allow for synchronization between multiple devices. I honestly don't know why anyone would want to use POP instead of IMAP these days if IMAP is available.

I would think you'd be able to go in and change the server type after you complete the setup. Have you tried that?

Wow... that stinks. Maybe it's time to think about switching to something like gmail. You could set gmail up to retrieve your mail from the existing account using POP3. It would ease the transition a bit. Last time I looked I get something like 7.6GB of free storage space there.

There is no Pop3 on iPhone 4 isn't 100% correct. Try to install ur acc while using a wrong passwort. After the phone checked ur data u'll get the message that something went wrong and the option to choose between imap and pop3.

Good job coming up with the workaround, verpixelt! I guess it seems that Apple's philosophy is to make it 'even that much easier' to setup an email account on the iphone in iOS5, however, my legacy email account is not IMAP, and yet it tried to create an IMAP account, which wreaked havoc on my ability to use my email account on my iphone. Your solution of setting up the account with the wrong password gave me the ability to make the IMAP/POP choice which then allowed my email account to function normally on my iPhone 4S. Thanks.

Apple, - please put the IMAP/POP selection option back in for email account setup on the iPhone. Thank you.

Hey akegb3,

I really am trying to make it so Apple will see this and make a change in their IOS. IOS 5.1.1. still does not offer POP3 if the account is able to link up with an IMAP server first.

Apple, - please put the IMAP/POP selection option back in for email account setup on the iPhone. Thank you.

Thank you, thank you for this solution. I've had my iPhone for over 2 years with no problem. POP was an option back then. Then I got an iPad and my husband also got an iPhone which automatically setup as IMAP. We share the same email address. This started wreaking havoc, inadvertently deleting emails from the server before we could get them downloaded into Outlook on our home computer. It took a while to figure out the problem since the first iPhone wasn't the culprit and POP was no longer presented as an option. I just updated both iPhones & iPad to iOS 6. POP still isn't an option.

Thank you, that worked!!!🙂

However, when I delete my email from my webmail, it deletes it from my Android tablet, which is the way I want it, but won't delete it on my ipod touch.