... Note that the "Ok" button is disabled, and that you can only click "Cancel" When I click on "Cancel", there it checks and downloads the e-mails. The strange thing about all this is that it only happens to me with one of my gmail accounts. This account has POP download enabled, and less secure application access is also enabled. This is corroborated. I also tried enabling / disabling IMAP access and the same thing happens. I tried to download Thunderbird and check the account ...