Q: Anyone else's Mail not checking IMAP and POP

[Macs R We]

On Sep 9, 2007, at 12:00 PM, macosx-talk-request at omnigroup.com wrote:

>    I've got an IMAP and a POP address set up in Mail, and when Mail
> starts up (it checks on startup), or when I first tell it to check
> manually, it seems to only check the IMAP.  Then if I tell it to
> check again, it will still check IMAP (and find nothing to sync), but
> then it will find and download messages off the POP server.
>
>    Does anyone else have this strange behavior?  Is it something
> about the order of the servers in the Mail preference pane list (I
> just reversed it, and seems to work now)

In the "Advanced" tab under Accounts there is this easily-overlooked  
checkbox that says "Include when automatically checking for new  
mail."  It defaults to on, but I've found it unchecked a couple of  
times, and that gives symptoms similar to what you're describing.

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