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Use Mail rules to make .Mac mail more POP-like
Authored by: sjk on Mar 03, '06 11:35:37AM
Why would anyone want an IMAP account to act like a POP account?
Not enough space to store messages on the IMAP server indefinitely?

My wife's relatively low-traffic FastMail "Member" account still has the default 16MB storage quota. I configured it as an IMAP account in Apple Mail so she can access new and a limited number of older messages using the webmail client. Eventually she moves most of those messages to another account (using Mail), which is an acceptable solution until/unless 16MB becomes insufficient and we pony up $24.95 for an additional 100MB of storage.

I'll leave other possible reasons to people who want to explain them.

Personally, I avoid POP whenever possible. I'd rather be stuck using a webmail client than POP clients on different systems for accessing the same server.

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Use Mail rules to make .Mac mail more POP-like
Authored by: pepi on Mar 04, '06 07:18:46AM

For whatever reason you may want to behave .Mac mail like a POP account...

If you want it to be like that, just set it up manually as a POP account. I've been doing so since it was calles iTools and it always worked like a charm.

For those of you who don't know exactly, here are the settings for .Mac popping:
Incoming Mailserver: mail.mac.com
Username: [i]Your .Mac username without "@mac.com"[/i]
Password: [i]obviously your password[/i]
Authentication Type: Password
SSL: YES (Tick the checkbox) (Not needed, but highly recommended)

Outgoing Mailserver: smtp.mac.com
Port: 25 (with o without SSL enabled)
Authentication Type: Password
Credentials are the same as for POP/IMAP
SSL: YES (tick the checkbox) (Not needed, but highly recommended)

Adjust deleting of downloaded messages, etc. to your liking.
Pepi



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