[OSX-Users] Re: Mail app - adding imap account?

[Tim Chown]

So the answer - as I guess it won't be obvious to everyone - is hold down the 'option' key when you press Continue, then you get to manually override the autodiscovery.

Simples.

Tim

On 1 Jun 2010, at 14:01, Tim Chown wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Been trying to add IMAP account(s) on my Mac laptop for two ECS accounts I have, but if I put in tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk as my mail address the Mail app will only find the Exchange service running for ECS and set that up for me - it doesn't give any option to manually override that to configure an IMAP account.   If I let the Exchange setup complete, it doesn't seem possible to edit that account to be an IMAP one.
> 
> Has anyone here run into this before?
> 
> Odd as the IMAP setup on my desktop Mac - which admittedly I did some time ago - wasn't a problem.
> 
> Doesn't seem to be a manual 'add account' option, it will only autodetect for you.    I wonder how the autodetect is happening...
> 
> Anyway, I can dig deeper but if it's something obvious I'm missing I'd rather hear it first :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim