Apple mail check new messages manually

I've put Mail to check for new messages manually in the preferences, and it still checks automatically. Using Apple Mail 7.3, on OS 10.9.4, with a gmail account.
Thanks for any suggestions on how to fix.

IMAP account? Some have push features. Go to the Gmail web site and see if you can find a way to disable it there.

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I did not use my laptop all day. This evening, when I looked at my new e-mail from earlier today, only about 3 messages still had the blue dot, that shows on unread mail. I watched new messages come in. One new one came in with the blue (unread) dot, then maybe when the next new message came in, the blue dot disappeared from the first message, but appeared on the new message. The 2 subsequent e-mails came in without any blue dot. I had not highlighted or opened any of those 4 new e-mails, or any of the previously delivered e-mails from today. I cannot find anything in system preferences or in mail preferences that addresses this issue. Anyone know why this is happening? Has my computer been breached or hacked?

Ok, so even thought no one has answered, it appears that once I move mail to the "On My Mac" mailboxes, they no longer exist on the server (though they can be moved back there if desired). Which means that I'm fine if I migrate my hosting to a new server, and redownload them, because the mail in "On My Mac" will be untouched. The only thing I don't know about is the "Sent" mail, but I believe those also exist on the server, and therefore if I migrate them then the link relationships are maintained (no idea about the mail that is "On My Mac" that has links to "Sent" mail in the server, but I guess that isn't so important).
As for keeping a completely syncronizable Mail application - the only way it appears I'd be able to do that is to forgo "On My Mac" entirely, and keep *all* mail on the server. If I want to move mail into different folders, those folders would have to be Server folders created for that account, and hosted by that hosting company. This actually doesn't seem like such a bad move, especially as we get further and further away from having only one device that we use to process Mail.
Are there any disadvantages to *not* using the local "On My Mac" folders? Are there any major advantages to using them?

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Why does my Apple Mail insert old messages into the body of new emails? The correct sender's name will appear in the "From" column, but an old message from a different sender in the body. This happens randomly. I have an iMac OSX 10.6.8. I recently had the hard drive cleaned, but Apple Mail seemed to be running fine when I set it up again. Could this be a virus? What should I do about it? Thanks for any insights!

Thanks. While you were replying to my question, I went into notifications and figured
it out. Appreciate the quick response!

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I decided to delete the Apple RSS feed from my mail, and suddenly the mail icon on shows 17 new messages (the same amount that were present in the RSS feed when it was deleted) and I don't know how to get it to stop showing it.
This is really ******* me off because I never wanted a RSS feed in the first place, now that I get rid of it, I'm stuck with this huge red "17" on my mail icon.
So can somebody tell me how to get rid of it?

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10.6.7 apple mail - search 'entire message' is greyed out

10.6.7 apple mail - search 'entire message' is greyed out
can't use it - other choices ok
was working yesterday...
hw do I get it back?

See the discussions at:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15146088#15146088
Can be temporary with POP perhaps, but should work. With IMAP, it is required that copies of messages be kept for local searching.
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Is your software up to date, by chance? Sometimes that can be a simple fix.
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In Mail > Preferences > General
There's a setting to change "Check for New Messages" with a pulldown for every 1 minute, every 5 mins, etc.
Is there a way, possibly via terminal settings, to change this to check for new messages every two minutes?
The reason for this is that I currently have my mail.app set to check email every minute for all my accounts. It mostly works, however, occasionally this is too many requests for my mail server and I get the dreaded pop-up requesting the password for the account. When this happens, all mail checking is stopped until I confirm the password (which is already correct) or cancel the request. It's a pain because I'm not always at my computer to instantly confirm this and then it can go hours without checking mail. Thus, checking mail every two minutes might work perfectly. Every 5 minutes seems a bit too long.
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Mike Mcgee wrote:
It mostly works, however, occasionally this is too many requests for my mail server and I get the dreaded pop-up requesting the password for the account. When this happens, all mail checking is stopped until I confirm the password (which is already correct) or cancel the request. It's a pain because I'm not always at my computer to instantly confirm this and then it can go hours without checking mail. Thus, checking mail every two minutes might work perfectly. Every 5 minutes seems a bit too long.
Actually Mike underestimates the annoyance -- Mail quite easily gets itself into a snit where it keeps asking for the password over and over, and the only way to get it out of the loop is to quit Mail and relaunch it. For those of us with 9 mailboxes, and we've got it set so that mail does not remember passwords, this is annoying! (Why do I have 9 mailboxes and don't save any passwords? Because I used to have 10 mailboxes opened, and relied on the saved passwords, and then one time they got wiped out and I realized that I had clean forgotten one of them. I made the decision to always put passwords in manually so that I will not forget them. When you get to be old and senile you will use these tricks, too.)
But, anyway, Mike's original problem is that a 1-minute check time breaks mail and he is annoyed by this. If he goes through all the hoops to hack it to 2 minutes, he might just find himself in exactly the same place and need to set it back to 5 anyway. Nathan, I'm glad you work somewhere that management is willing to spend cash updating mail servers so that your spam gets instantly delivered, but my management wants to spend money on other things.

Mail sending new message notifications for Old Messages

Hi,
Since upgrading to Mavericks I've been having a ton of problems with the Mail App.
I'm running on a Macbook Pro (13-inch Early 2011 Model) with 4gb of RAM and OS at version 10.9
I have Mail connected to two different accounts 1 Gmail and one Exchange. The recently released "Mail Update" has not fixed these issues.
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Try this:
Go into Preferences -> General and uncheck the box that says "Play sounds for other mail actions".
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CT - The problem is certainly not the standard behaviour so it is unsurprising that everyone cannot reproduce it. I did a new clean install after an upgrade some time ago and everything magically worked. I tried to list all the possibly relevant criteria in my original post but it is clearly not the whole story as I am no longer experiencing the problem
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Greetings ...
I'm in the midst of moving from Eudora to Apple Mail (I know, I'm old), and I'm looking through all documentation online and here in Apple Support but can't find if there's a way to do this:
In Eudora, I used to be able to Option-click on an email header's "From:" column in a mailbox, and instantly all mail in that mailbox with the matching "From:" header would be grouped together and highlighted.
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I've tried every key combination I can think of to elicit the same response from Apple Mail. Am I missing something?
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From: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2500
Searching Mail
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Hi Ernie,
Thank you for your reply and explination.
1/ Yes, the instructions did help. It was obvious, but I haven't ever used Mac's. They are the best, but switching over it's not the easiest.
2/ Have been thinking about changing to another mail client because of this (Thunderbird). Usually everything with iOS X makes sense, but having the MAILBOXES option and sub-structure (Inbox, Flagged, Drafts, Sent, Junk, Trash) is beyond me at the moment (a lightbulb might go off in the future ...)
3/ Not sure why, but now everything is working fine. Could be becuase of the update to iOS 6.
Siki

Apple mail check new messages manually

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