How to add Gmail POP?

[orbitalpunk]

Does anyone know how to add Gmail to Apple Mail using POP and not IMAP successfully? I've seen others have the same issue. It automatically sets it up as IMAP and when I try to do a manual setup using "Other" it says "unable to verify account name or password."

Thanks

 

[Shirasaki]

Would google simply abandon POP method to manage your email?

 

[orbitalpunk]

its works in Yosemite just fine. And even when I disable IMAP in Gmail, it still sets up as IMAP and continues to work.

 

[Steve121178]

Why would you use POP over IMAP? Baffled!

 

[orbitalpunk]

Why would you use POP over IMAP? Baffled!

I like to curate my emails locally.

 

[Steve121178]

Here's the POP settings used to configure Outlook 2013, the same values will apply when trying to setup the Mail app on OS X:

http://pop2imap.com/gmail-outlook-2013.php

It's 2015 though, c'mon!

 

[hideous cheese]

Previously I've set up a nonsense account under other. It doesnt connect obviously but once saved it acts as a template you can edit and manually add in pop settings for gmail

 

[orbitalpunk]

I mentioned when you try to select other and manually enter settings, it says "unable to verify account name or password." someone suggested it might be a keychain issue. See this thread on Apples forums.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7250698

 

[orbitalpunk]

Previously I've set up a nonsense account under other. It doesnt connect obviously but once saved it acts as a template you can edit and manually add in pop settings for gmail

Apple Mail in El Capitan when let you move forward until you connect successfully

See this post. Its not just me.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7250698

 

[hideous cheese]

I've just successfully set up 2 POP accounts, one for Yahoo and one for gmail.

The trick is to select other, then put your actual email address for the account but a nonsense password. The account is unable to grab the true settings so you are kicked back to a window that allows you to edit the account type and outgoing/incoming servers

 

[orbitalpunk]

this works, thanks.

question, how are you moving your emails over. I used to be able to copy the Mail folder from Library and then Mail would just update the database and all my emails would appear. But now it says its updates the database but my inbox is empty and archives are missing. Are you having the same issue or doing it a different way?

 

[hideous cheese]

Yeah, previous drag and drop proved challenging...

So I just booted into my Yosemite backup, opened mail and exported as .mbox each of the individual folders in the 'On my Mac' section. Doing this gives you Imported/Each exported folder name/mbox so you then have to move the contents of each mbox one level up to 'folder name'.

One thing to be mindful of is that somehow ghost folders are created so you might run into a problem where there are duplicate names so you may not be able to move some folders without first changing their name.