For more information on IMAP and POP, please review our Internet FAQ section. To avoid these errors, we recommend using IMAP on all devices. “The mail server denied access to your account because another mail client was using it.” Note: Using both IMAP and POP simultaneously or POP across multiple devices can cause connection/mail synchronization error messages when trying to send, receive or access new email such as the following:

Select POP or IMAP in the Account Type dropdown.

Enter your Full Name, Email Address and Password.

Click + at the bottom of the Accounts list to create a new account.In Preferences, click the Accounts icon.Select Preferences from the Mail dropdown.

Here's the MacMail portion of one comprehensive 'manual setup' page - like I said, it should 'get' settings FROM the server when adding a new account (adding one BACK) What I DO find is several links from Spectrum and TWC websites on 'how to setup' I find nothing online regarding Spectrum 'abandoning' Apple Mail or Mac OSX Mail If I were you, I would pick a service & delete it from your Mac Mail - then add it back utilizing the 'automatic' get settings function - then see what happensĪutomatically manage connection settings in Mail on your Mac - Apple Support I have no problems - unless a service does something wonky without telling me about it (Yahoo has gone wacky several times & Gmail did it intentionally once = something about 'untrusted' apps or something that required visiting webmail setting and flipping a switch) I now use Thunderbird email client on a PC.Īll of the accounts are set up 'automatically' from within Thunderbird - TBird 'gets' server settings from the email services when setting up IMAP If I recall correctly, all the email accounts I used - YahooMail, Gmail & Hotmail - required using the Roadrunner SMTP server to SEND mail from the accounts for POP3

When I used my OLD Mac Powerbook, I used MS Entourage email client. I have Spectrum - from TimeWarner (which is 'roadrunner') = username state abbr.

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