Mail preferences question

question... my ex wife has somehow accessed my email acct. on my daughters macbook. I did some spec work for playboy mag and she is claiming that i did it on my daughters mac.She claims that when the mail application is launched my emails all appear. She claims she cannot delete my emails because she needs an administrator to do so, which she claims I am. I believe that in mail preferences it is easy to delete an account without the use of an admins password. Is that correct. I believe that she is using 10.5

Though this really is the Mail section of Tiger Discussions, isn't there a separate section in your Mail Preferences (up in that menu bar where you found "General") labelled "Accounts"?
In Tiger Mail>Preferences, there are several menus in Prefs...General/Accounts/Junk/Fonts...etc.
Are you saying that "Accounts" is not a menu choice in your Panther's prefs?

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The preference file may be corrupt.
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Mail was working just fine all day. My wife tries to reply to a message received earlier and gets the following error message:
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OK, I found the answer in a reply to another question. The pill-shaped buton in the upper right corner of the Junk Mail Preference pane retrieved the rest of the Preferences and I was able to check my SMTP Server settings, which were correct. My test messages also came through this morning, leading me to believe that my ISP had a problem on their end, which was subesequently corrected.
My habit has always been to close any Preferences window while in the "Show All" mode, so I didn't think to check that first.
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Thanks for the question. Let’s try quitting the Mail application and restarting your computer. If you have trouble quitting the application, see this article for information on how to Force Quit:
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Back up all data before proceeding.
Launch the Keychain Access application in any of the following ways:
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Hi,
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I am new to the mac world and got a macbook (not pro) for xmas. Everything appears to be ok but I have a question regarding the mail option. I believe I have leopard because I use safari to hit the web but Im not sure. If someone could verify that it would be great. My main question is that when I hit the mail icon which looks like a stamp my email account pops up automatically which is nice but I don't want anyone else to check my emails but me. How could I go about having mail prompt me to ask for my password before I can access the messages. Right now I click on the stamp and I automatically see the messages and the bodies of the emails. Just want more privacy if possible. Ive tried what I know but no luck. Any guidance would be great.
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Welcome to the Mac and to the Apple user discussion forums
to find out what OS you have go to the apple menu ==> about this mac - Tiger is version 10.4.x and Leopard 10.5.x
You can go to the mail preferences ==> accounts and delete the password for your account so no one but you can pick up your mail but anyone with access to your account will still be able to see the mail you have already downloaded. The best way to keep your privacy is to go to he apple menu ==> system preferences ==> system ==> accounts and place a password on your account - others can use the guest account or you can set up accounts for anyone you want to have special priviliges -- then go to personal ==> security and tighten up the security settings requiring a password to wake from sleep, etc
This will secure your computer from all but the most determined, experienced users
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Mail Preferences, iCloud. Incoming Server (IS) info is gray. Password can't be changed until IS info is input! How to change?

I am in the process of changing my iCloud password. I cannot do this in Mail. And until I do this in Mail, I can't receive any mail in iCloud.
Under Mail Preferences/iCloud/Incoming Server. Info is there, except it is gray. I can't change it, or make it appear in black no matter what I do. Nor is the info showing up in the Server information. Mail Preferences for iCloud will not allow me to change my password until I input Incoming Server info !! What do I do?
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To Csound1
Hi mate, thanks for the info, the original Server p09- etc remains in the box in Mail Preferences, but I went into
System Preferences Mail section and entered your suggestion in the imap box.
I ran a test email, IT WORKS!
You certainly deserve to double your status of Level 2 (12,355 points).
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I have a new Mac Pro (2 x 2.4 GHz Quad Xeon) with 24GB RAM and a 512 SSD, and have been having problems ever since getting it.
Current Problem:
If I try to view Preferences in Mail.app, I get the beachball of death. Force quit is the only solution at that point. The mail functions work fine, but I cannot change any settings, add or update any accounts, modify rules or any of it.
I've done the permissions repair, disk repair, PRAM reset, and LIbrary stuff of removing preferences and mail folders. This has not solved the inability to access mail preferences, though.
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This is the second SSD after having hte first one replaced. Why? Because of cascading app crashes, and Lion would not reinstall. The Genius Bar restored my account on the new disk using a Time Machine backup from another disk on the machine. All seemed good for a while.
A second visit to the Genius Bar was to try to fix more crashes. Now there were secret permissions problems (that seem to override the normal chmod permissions on files and folders) preventing apps from starting up properly. It stumped him, and he was looking up arcane system-level commands to try to clean these issues up. The Genius spend 2 hours creating new users, migrating apps over, etc. I left with things seemingly fixed.
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First, restore your Mail data. That's apparently not where the problem lies.
Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Boot in safe mode and log in as yourself. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key. The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple icon and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
During startup, you will see "Safe Boot" on the login screen, which appears even if you normally log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin.
Safe mode is slower than normal, and some things won’t work at all, possibly including wireless networking.
Launch Mail, and test again. Same problem now?
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iCloud Mail couldn't be enabled from the iCloud Preference Pane.
Open Mail and add your iCloud account from Mail preferences.

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Sorry I posted this under Tiger discussions as well, but it wasn't my intention. I am running Leopard now:
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