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Online docx viewer for mac windows 10. I've gone wrong somewhere. I have followed the procedure given in 'Get started with IMAP and POP3' / 'I want to enable POP' as best as I could; that is, I modified my Gmail settings under the 'gear' icon, but was unable to follow completely the instructions for the reconfiguration of Outlook (for Mac); that is, 'On the E-mail tab, click on New.' , etc, after 'Open Outlook' / 'Click the Tools menu, and select Accounts or Account Settings.' Opening Outlook reveals two 'Tools' options; one in the top of the Outlook window, after 'Home' and 'Organise', and another in the drop-down menu bar at the top of my Mac's desktop. But neither present an 'Email tab' where I can 'click New.'

However, clicking the latter does present the nearest thing, an 'Accounts.' Option that led me to Outlook's Gmail account settings, where I eventually decided that the '+' button at the bottom of the accounts' window must be the clickable equivalent of 'New.' (My initial attempt simply to substitute ' for ' resulted in Outlook complaining it couldn't contact Gmail, whilst the Gmail Inbox, etc, disappeared from Outlook's mailbox window). When I then established a second, 'New' account, using ' whilst retaining my original IMAP account, I seemed to be back in business; I'm sending and receiving emails OK, even though they take much longer arriving and leaving than with my Mail client, as was the case even before I added my POP account. Having said that, I was unable to find anything corresponding to 'POP3' as opposed simply to 'POP', nor could I see much that corresponded fully with the 'Standard configuration instructions' given in 'Getting started with IMAP and POP3' for those 'setting up POP for the first time'. Apart from dealing with the incoming and outgoing server names and ports and using SSL, I could find / do nothing about the 'Port for TLS/STARTTLS', or the 'Server timeouts', etc, that follow.

I see also that whilst my IMAP account is active / has a green light alongside it, my new POP account's light is on orange. I'm concerned that if I delete the IMAP account, to try and force a changeover, I will find myself unconnected once more. Can someone please put me straight..

Tony_b 9/3/2014, 6:25 น. Oriole, As you know, this is a User to User forum.

I am an Outlook user, but definitely not a Mac user, so I don't know if there are major differences between the two Outlooks. There's no Tools option that I'm aware of. In Outlook 2010 (for Windows PCs) we click File > Account Settings > drop down to Account Settings again > New > Email Account > Next > etc. What is your reason for changing from IMAP to POP?

Do you wish your mail to be deleted from the server after download? Specific to Gmail, you need to set that option in both Gmail and Outlook settings. As soon as you're sure you're getting all your mail in the POP3 account, it should be quite safe to delete the IMAP account.

I think the Green light and Orange light scenario is specific to IMAP. There isn't a 'light' for POP accounts in Outlook. Again I don't know if Outlook for Mac is different in this regard. Wdurham 9/3/2014, 6:44 น.

Hello tony_b, Thanks for your interest. My Outlook is part of my Office for Mac 2011 and it clearly is different to your Windows version in at least this File vs Tools / Accounts area, just as my current Word and Excel are significantly different to those of the MS Office 2000 on my previous virtual PC. Regarding green and orange lights: perhaps the orange light next to what I had set up as a POP account is an indication that it isn't. Wdurham, below, has linked me to what looks like a more appropriate source of guidance. I'm awaiting their response to my query.

I must also visit Microsoft's Office for Mac support. I'm switching to POP both in order to be left to my own devices with filing my emails and to avoid the constant, distracting, to-ing and fro-ing of ghost emails. And since I'm a one-device-guy, I have no need of IMAP's synchronization service. Wealey 10/3/2014, 5:06 น. Hello wdurham, Thank you for the LimeTech Solutions link; I'm awaiting their response. I also need to have a word with Microsoft's Office for Mac support. I'd seen how to access Settings at Gmail from 'Get Started with IMAP & POP3'.