Master Mail Concepts - Take Control of Apple Mail (1.0) - page 21

You can add a new account to Mail in either place, and after you do so, both locations will re-
flect that account. Beyond that, the Internet Accounts preference pane gives you less control
over the minute details of email account settings than Mail's Accounts pane does, although
there are a couple of things you can do only in Internet Accounts.
Here are the specifics:
• Mail's Accounts pane: Visit this pane to edit outgoing (SMTP) servers, add
secondary From addresses, change the behavior of Special Mailboxes , and adjust
details such as whether to download attachments, use an IMAP path prefix, or
use IMAP IDLE (all in the Advanced view).
• Internet Accounts pane of System Preferences: Use this to enable or
disable account features such as Calendars and Contacts, delete any accounts
synced via iCloud, or to set up Internet accounts that don't involve Mail.
Force POP or IMAP
When you create a new account (in Mail > Preferences > Accounts, or in System Preferences
> Internet Accounts), you start by clicking the plus button and selecting an account type.
If the type you want isn't on that list (such as a standard IMAP or POP account), you select,
in Mail, Add Other Mail Account and then click Continue; or, in Internet Accounts, click Add
Other Account, select Add a Mail Account, and click Create. Then you fill in your name, email
address, and password.
At this point, if you click Create, Mail looks up the server and tries to figure out what it can
set up for you automatically. (If Mail can't figure it out, it presents more fields for you to fill
in.) But sometimes it guesses wrong—for example, it might set up an account as IMAP when
what you really wanted was POP, because the server supports both protocols and Mail uses
the one it thinks is best. But there's no way to change the server type after the fact, and no
obvious way to override which type of account (POP or IMAP) is used.
Here's the non-obvious way: After entering your name, email address, and password, but be-
fore clicking Create, hold down Option, and the Create button turns into a Next button. Click
it, and you can then click POP or IMAP, as you prefer; manually fill in the server name, user-
name, and password; and then click Next to continue with account setup.
Use iCloud Aliases
If you have an iCloud account, you can add up to three aliases —extra email addresses that
deliver messages to the same Inbox. For example, my Apple ID (and thus, my primary iCloud
address) is [e-mail] . But if I wanted a second address that would be more obvious
and memorable, I could (well, did) set up the alias [e-mail] . Any email