Can not download sources with Intellij Idea community 12.1.4 and maven 3.0.5

Running IDEA version 12.1.6 and I have the same issue.

When I uncheck the following option it does work:

Settings > Maven > Importing > Use Maven3 to import project

In Intellij 2017.x, 2016.x, 15.x, 14.x the given solution does not work as the option is removed.

The problem can be solved by changing JDK for Importer to a latest JDK instead of User Internal JRE which was 1.6.0 by default on Mac

The setting JDK For Importer can be found in:

Preferences -> Build, Execution,Deployment -> Build Tools -> Maven -> Importing