Questions tagged [pop]
Post Office Protocol for email servers. The other dominant email server protocol is called IMAP.
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Recover emails from an old MacBook with "broken" Apple Mail v9.3
A friend is still happily using their trusty 2009 MacBook with El Capitan and Apple Mail v9.3 installed. Apple Mail was configured to fetch all their mail from a POP3 account and save them locally. ...
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Macbook's speakers "pop" when entering stand-by mode
On my MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017) I have noticed a problem with popping sound. It happens both on running on AC adapter and battery: Macbook makes light pop sound (like from static electricity) from ...
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Transfer Mac Mail POP3 Email account to new MAC
I want to move to a new Macbook. However, I have a POP3 email account on Mac Mail with some old emails that I would like to migrate to a new Macbook which are no longer on the mail server. Would Apple ...
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One email address has two Internet Accounts
I somehow have multiple accounts for the same email address - they both receive messages sent to that address but one (the POP) has hundreds of emails in the Inbox and Sent, going back years and the ...
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View and delete individual messages directly from POP server in OS X Mail
There is/was a feature in OS X Mail that allowed to fetch the list of messages from the server in a configured POP account. This fetched only message headers - all at once - and displayed the list in ...
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POP account issues with El Capitan
Why is my POP account not working after I upgraded to El Capitan? I sometimes can get mail and then it stops working so the problem is intermittent.
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Mac Mail Client sending and storing duplicates from Gmail
One of my team members approached me today asking about an issue they're having with their Mac Mail Client and Gmail. I am a Linux user and do not have much experience with Mac, but thought I would ...
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Pop up on Mac from AVG
I installed AVG antivirus then deleted it using the AVG website. I keep getting popups on my iMac using Yosemite 10.10 stating Problem Report for Loader Agent. The popup persists even though the ...
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Where did all my Outlook mail go?
I recently attempted to switch OS X Mail from using POP to using IMAP to access my Microsoft Outlook (msn.com) e-mail account. In doing so all mail in my Outlook account older than a week disappeared. ...
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Mail - how to show POP3 mail account in the side bar
This is my Mail screen:
I have Gmail Imap account and a Bezeqint POP3 account.
I want to see my Bezeqint account in the sidebar as I see Gmail's account so I can add and change folders.
How can i ...
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How to access gmail via pop instead of imap in mail.app in iOS 7.1
In iOS 6.x, my iPad and iPhone were connected with pop to gmail accounts. When I delete a message on the iPad or iPhone, the message is NOT deleted on the gmail server. So the message is still in my ...
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Apple mail and a POP3-only mail account
I have set up a mail account with Apple Mail. What I realized only when it was "too late", the mail server does not provide IMAP (only for a fee), and thus roundabout 100 E-Mails were downloaded and ...
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Junk mail doesn't get automatically deleted
This is happening with Mail.app 6.6 on OS X 10.8.5, but has been going on for a few OS X versions.
In Mail.app, my account settings specify to delete junk mail after one day. Except it never gets ...
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How to access gmail via pop instead of imap in mail.app in mavericks
I have a fresh install of mavericks. For reasons relating to my own workflow I would like to access my gmail via mail.app using pop instead of IMAP (I prefer to store only what I need on my mac but ...
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Apple Mail 6.2 doesn't download messages from Gmail over POP3
I'm trying to set up my POP3 Gmail account on a Retina MBP running OS X 10.8.2. A few months ago, I managed to do the same thing, the first time around, on an iMac, working with the same Gmail account ...
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Mac OS X 10.4 - Thunderbird 3 to Thunderbird 13
I'm working with an ancient PowerPC Mac running Tiger. I managed to migrate the POP email from Apple Mail 2 to Thunderbird 3, but I now need to migrate it to a newer machine with Thunderbird 13. How ...
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Mail.app AppleScript to process POP3 mails stopped working in Lion
I have a Mail.app rule script that worked fine in Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It is simply a script that allows for AND/OR boolean logic combined together to trigger one (rarely two) of the following ...
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Lion Mail 5.0 rejects a POP server. Looking for confirmation and/or workarounds
Has anyone else experienced problems logging into POP servers that require plain text password login? Or more importantly found a work around?
(I know that in this day and age a plain text password ...
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