10.4.6 messed up Mail.

For some reason it reported that it could contect none of my three available SMTP servers. Nothing about the settings has changed since updating to 10.4.6. I pinged these SMTP servers from the command line and they're showing up fine. I checked that all of those SMTP servers still worked on all my other computers and they all do. I checked that my firewall was turned off, and it is. I trashed my mail prefs and re-entered all my account information and now it only doesn't let some of them ever connect. This is super lame.
Anyone have any ideas?

Ben, have you ruled out a corrupted Mail.plist file or some other corrupted setting having to do with connecting to those servers?

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(Please pardon the long explanation)
Where I was:
PowerMac G4, running OSX 10.3.9, Mail 1.3.11
All working well.
Burned a back-up DVD of my Mail Library and preference files.
Where I went:
MacPro G5, running OSX 10.5.8, Mail 3.6
How I got there:
Started the brand new G5, ran through multiple updates, installed files from DVDs burned off the G4. From the back-up DVD, dragged the contents of the Mail Library folder and dropped them into the G5 folder Mail user's library. When a dialog box appeared, asking if I wanted to replace identically named folders, I clicked 'yes'. Dragged and dropped the preference files in the same manner. Internet access through Airport, and Safari work just fine, happily.
What happened:
When I first opened Mail, a dialog box said it needed to input files from previous Mail or something, after about two minutes, it opened, showing the mailboxes from the previous Mail in the G4 (Yeah!). Within twenty seconds, an alert requesting the mail server password appeared, and ten seconds later, Mail crashed.
Where I am now:
When I open Mail now, it opens showing no previous mailbox folders, then quickly the dialog box asking for a password appears, and seconds after, Mail crashes.
What I think happened:
I most likely messed up by mixing old files into the new system. Looking at the Mail folder now, I have no idea what is corrupted and what is good. There are some duplicates by name. Deleting some of them hasn't helped.
What I want to do:
Re-install a new Mail system, get it working, than input all my old mail from the G4 in some fashion.
I would like to have all my email from the last five years on the new system.
Questions: How can I fix the mess I have now? How can I get a fresh Mail system, and then transfer the previous emails from the G4?
Thank you sincerely, Isshi.

Isshi wrote:
1) Can I import my previous signatures by dragging and dropping in the Signatures.plist file, or do I have to re-write all the old ones? The file in the new Mail is named SignaturesByAccount.plist so it's named differently.
2) Can I import the previous address book somehow?
3) How can I import the filter preferences?
4) Do I really have to re-construct all the mail mailboxes in the new system (now they are nestled in the 'import' mailbox)?
Despite my earlier suggestion I'm not an expert in mail importing, so others will have to contribute their ideas on some of your questions. Here's what I can tell you regarding your first two questions:
1) I'd avoid trying to use that Signatures.plist file. I agree that it seems to be organized differently from the earlier version.
2) Address Book can import an "Address Book Archive". I'd go back to your 10.3.9 system (if you still have it) and see if you can create such a thing.

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I went in my settings under "Mail, Contacts,Calendars", and I basically made a MESS! Can't get it back to the way it was, was initially using my free Shaw account, now all I get is
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Slowing down a little bit would probably help.
Just to clarify, you are talking about the mail settings only is that correct? Or did you start messing around with all of the other settings on the iPad?
If you just altered the mail settings for the account, it would probably make the most sense to delete the email account and start all over again. But this is suggested on the assumption that you know what the mail settings for your email account should be when you try to add the account again.

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Thanks. I did that, and 609 emails came flooding in from Gmail! The timer thing keeps spinning endlessly as if it's looking for more mail, but I can live with that. At least now I can just check my mail without having to sign in to Gmail every time.
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Hi everyone. I switched from PC to iMac last year, and here is my situation.
I use mail on my iMac. I have it set up to check my pop mail for my private email address ([email protected]) and my hotmail ([email protected]) and both of those are set to leave a copy of all messages on their servers. I have an iCloud address but I have never used it.
I have not yet confugured mail on my MacBook, my iPad or my iPhone.
I am moving overseas next month for about 8 months and I can't take my iMac with me. If that wasn't heart breaking enough, I don't quite know what to do to manage everything while I am away and my iMac is asleep in a carton. I will be taking my Air, phone and pad. Can anyone please suggest a nice way for me to manage my emails while I am away?
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I understand that I can just use the various providers web sites and read and write there, but I was hoping for a nice solution that allowed for offline work too.
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Thanks so much...
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Hi everyone. I switched from PC to iMac last year, and here is my situation.
I use mail on my iMac. I have it set up to check my pop mail for my private email address ([email protected]) and my hotmail ([email protected]) and both of those are set to leave a copy of all messages on their servers. I have an iCloud address but I have never used it.
I have not yet confugured mail on my MacBook, my iPad or my iPhone.
I am moving overseas next month for about 8 months and I can't take my iMac with me. If that wasn't heart breaking enough, I don't quite know what to do to manage everything while I am away and my iMac is asleep in a carton. I will be taking my Air, phone and pad. Can anyone please suggest a nice way for me to manage my emails while I am away?
I would like to have access to all my archives, plus all my new emails in one place, and particularly I like all my replies and outgoing messages to come from [email protected]. And, I would like all of my mail to be easy to sync to my iMac when I get home in 8 months time.
I understand that I can just use the various providers web sites and read and write there, but I was hoping for a nice solution that allowed for offline work too.
Any suggestions? What would you do?
Thanks so much...
Brett

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All the other folders match my message status.
And my iPad and web access of iCloud both match the Inbox on my Mac in Mail.
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POP accounts can let multipal computers download the same messages as long as you have the advanced settings set properly.
You need to make sure both sides are set to NOT remove the message from the server for a period of time if ever. My iPhone is set to NEVER remove messages from the server and my MacBook Pro is also set to NEVER remove mail from the server, only my main Mac is set to remove messages and it set to only remove after one week. The problem is that the iPhone is still removing it anyway as is the Mail on my MacBook now even though it didn't before that I remember... I know when using my two Mac's it worked as expected.

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I have a question regarding Apple Mail 3.6 that until recently has operated flawlessly, being linked to three different mail account - among them my work account via IMAP.
Yet, a couple of days ago the program started to confuse 'mail headings' and 'mail messages'. All of a sudden I got new messages that contained up to three year old messages. What do I do about that?
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Thanks on beforehand!
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Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
The index probably needs to be repaired. You may need to force a reindexing. Try removing the Envelope Index to force reindexing of all mailboxes -- see:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/3.0/en/14019.html
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Hi,
Yesterday whilst using my Graphics Pen/Tablet I seemed to have Clicked and Dragged one iMAP folder to another.
Unfortunately this was my Google Mail (All Mail) Folder to one associated with my Web site.
This creates a Folder on the second IMAP account called (Google Mail) All Mail and it started copying 17,000+ emails over whilst I was busy posting on ASC.
I thought I had stopped it.
I deleted the Extra Folder and thought that was it.
Now I am getting this message every few seconds.
I tried receating the Folder called (Google MAil) All Mail in the second IMAP Account but I am having trouble with the parathenses
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I tried adding them as Sqaue brackets with no luck.
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This is beginning to drive me crazy as they say.
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7:57 PM Monday; April 25, 2011
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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.7)
, Mac OS X (10.6.7),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Hi BDAqua and Ernie,
I will try to answer both sets of questions.
These are the Folders Mail Shows for that Account (Although I could not Right/Control Click it)
I have found that the people I use for my WebSite do have a page you can login to view mail.
On that page the All Mail folder does not exist.
When I have this account Enabled I have tried changing the name with no luck.
On the web page I tried creating the [Google Mail] All Mail name. This stuck but the Mail App does not show that Folder. (I was not logged in via Mail when I did this).
(I will edit ro remove the Brackets as I did that first thing today)
In Mail Preferences > Accounts > Advanced this Webiste IMAP is set to Compact Mail Boxes Automatically where as my Gmail one is not.
Not sure if that has a bearing. (Will wait for advice)
As to the Force Indexing by deleting the Envelope index.
I did that before as per BDQAqua's Instructions.
It did the Gmail one (I Presume as it was Enabled before)
I presume it did not touch the Website one as it was not Enabled.
I will repeat with both Enabled.
I have read the link and have started work on it. I presume this is the folder removal you spoke of and not anywhere else ?
Will post back soon.
8:47 PM Tuesday; April 26, 2011
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb( 10.6.7)
, Mac OS X (10.6.7),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Alright, I already had Daniel Parnell's httpmail hotmail plugin installed. I saw he had a newer version and downloaded and installed accordingly. Then when I opened Mail, I saw that all my messages for the past two days were gone. Also, when I delete a message from my inbox in Mail, it greys out but still stays there, not moving to Trash.
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How do I use Internet accounts to add accounts to mail in mavericks

I used migration Assistant to Migrate to a new Imac(late 2013), The new machine was 10.8.4 so the very first thing I did was add an account so I could update. I suspect this was the root cause of my problem because then when I migrated the account I had to rename it
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My internet accounts had a list of all the mail accounts I used to have but mail itself was empty. All the accounts are imap so I have not lost mail.
Trying things mentioned on the forum I tried deleting the accounts under internet accounts and re-adding, and I tried importing from the mail folder. Importing sort of worked but created a big mess of mail under a import folder.
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I go to mail. I do add acount, I add a icloud account, I select paul...me.com It adds the account.
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Yes it all works under a new user. Thank you.
At this point the simplest solution is probably to put everything else from the old user into the new one, hopefully without breaking anything else.

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http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html
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