Apple Mail is a joke, isn't it?

Apple Mail is totally unreliable.
It loses connection with the mail server, and you have no idea when or why, but the Connection Doctor says "everything is working perfectly!"
Sent messages get stuck in the Outbox; sometimes they've actually been sent, sometimes not, no way to know unless you send a follow-up email (from a separate email client, asking the person if it was received or not -- it really enhances your professionalism).
Moving an email to a different folder causes the email to disappear until you either close/open Mail or rebuild the mailbox or clap your hands 28,000 times.
Image attachments are conveniently ruined when they reach the recipient, unless they prefer their images to be completely unviewable.
Apple Mail is a joke.
I have spent hours on Support Communities looking for real answers. 99% of the answers are Apple fanboys giving worn-out unhelpful answers to people looking for real help (for example, "Maybe you shouldn't be using Yahoo mail, get a real email address" or the infamous "Maybe you should get a different ISP, because it's definitely not your infallible Mac" and a treasure trove of other completely useless troll-worthy nonsense).
I cannot believe that EMAIL, which even AMERICA ONLINE figured out, CANNOT be handled by Apple's Mail application. **** are you kidding me? This POS email application needs attention, Apple. I don't care how pretty you make it, make it work! I mean for GOD's SAKE even LOTUS NOTES can handle email properly.
Thanks,
Me

Chattphotos:
> I can confirm that iCloud, Gmail, and Office365 Exchange works without any issue in Yosemite.
I doubt that. Since upgrading to Yosemite, Mail with Office365 does not work for me. I have provided a detailed description here:
Exchange email is invisible in Mail app, rebuild doesn't help
Email that absolutely is present in the inbox, and that all other email programs show, are simply not visible in Mail. Rebuilding the inbox doesn't help, instead it makes things worse. The connection is fine, because I can send and receive new mail.

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HI - I have a Macbook pro with OSX 10.6.8, and Intego Virus Barrier X6 and Personal Anti Spam. The anti spam isn't working with Apple Mail and even a reinstall hasn't worked. Anyone got any ideas?

I suggest following the steps found in the manual: Using Personal Antispam with Apple Mail and Microsoft Entourage or Outlook
When you first configured Personal Antispam, the program's Setup Assistant helped you configure your e-mail program (in your case: Apple Mail). You can run the setup assistant again by clicking General in the filter list and then clicking the Reconfigure... button.
If that doesn't work, your best bet is to contact Intego's support team. They will be able to help you better than people on these forums. Here's their contact support form: https://intego.zendesk.com/anonymous_requests/new

After i had my hard drive replaced, i've gone to get my old emails and am unable to find them on time machine. The file com.apple.mail.plist isn't there. HELP!

Pretty sure this will be some sort of user error, but i'm lost.
I had to have my hard drive replaced, so before taking it to the genius bar, i backed up using time machine. I'd had issues with trying to use Carbon Copy Cloner previously so had formatted the external drive before doing time machine. TM seemed to work fine and copied what looked to be everything. Once i'd got the new hard drive in and went to restore everything, when i looked for the file i need to get to apparently get my mails back (Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist) it's not there.
Any help would be MASSIVELY appreciated.
J

Turn Time Machine OFF temporarily in its preference pane. Leave the window open.
Navigate in the Finder to your backup disk, and then to the folder named "Backups.backupdb" at the top level of the volume. If you back up over a network, you'll first have to mount the disk image file containing your backups by double-clicking it. Descend into the folder until you see the snapshots, which are represented by folders with a name that begins with the date of the snapshot. Find the one you want to restore from. There's a link named "Latest" representing the most recent snapshot. Use that one, if possible. Otherwise, you'll have to remember the date of the snapshot you choose.
Inside the snapshot folder is a folder hierarchy like the one on the source disk. Find one of the items you can't restore and select it. Open the Info dialog for the selected item. In the Sharing & Permissions section, you may see an entry in the access list that shows "Fetching…" in the Name column. If so, click the lock icon in the lower right corner of the dialog and authenticate. Then delete the "Fetching…" item from the icon list. Click the gear icon below the list and select Apply to enclosed items from the popup menu.
Now you should be able either to copy the item in the Finder or to restore it in the time-travel view. If you use the time-travel view, be sure to select the snapshot you just modified. If successful, repeat the operation with the other items you were unable to restore. You can select multiple items in the Finder and open a single Info dialog for all of them by pressing the key combination option-command-I.
When you're done, turn TM back ON and close its preference pane.

I know this is the wrong forum but there isn't one for Apple Mail!

Hello all,
Forgive the slight mis-placement but.. I'm looking to move my Mail from my desktop Mac Pro to my Macbook Pro! Can anybody advise the best method that will maintain the current email archive and listings, thus being no change whatsoever once moved to the Macbook?

Not sure what you are talking about? If the post, which I did not see, was posted in this forum (Mail and Address Book) then it was the correct forum. Your saying there was no forum for Apple Mail would probably have not helped get a reply.
The correct and simplest method to move is to transplant both the com.apple.mail.plist file from Home/Library/Preferences and the Mail folder from Home/Library from the one Mac to the other.
Ernie

Apple Mail unable to forward attachments

I called tech support and they said to save an attachment to the desk top - which is fine if it's 1 file and that works. I have one with 8 jpg files that goes with text and all I get are the blue boxes with the
photos missing.
I can't seem to find a work around with Apple Mail so I go to our Gmail account and send it from there.
Any clue when Apple Mail will be improved? Simple tasks it can't seem to perform. With the iMac raved about for its graphics, find it hard to believe that I can't insert my .gif with my name being written by a rose. It's at those moments that I fire up the PC and use IncrediMail.
Thank you.

Thank you for your encouraging post. Since calling Apple Care and the whiz in Apple Mail could only tell me how to forward one attachment, mind sharing how to forward more than one with text?
I'm not forwarding attachments with each e-mail I send - most of our friends share lovely e-mails with animal photos combined with text. One yesterday had 8 photos but when I tried to forward it, I get the blue boxes.
I tried using the forward and then the Message, forward as attachment, but still just the blue box with a question mark in it. If there is something "hidden", it sure isn't in "The Missing Manual" books and neither is tech support aware of it.
Mind sharing? Thank you.
How about changing the color default for outgoing messages? Tried everything and tech support couldn't solve that one either. It's all black; then highlight and then select a color.
Wonderful to 'bump' into someone that knows these answers - sure
appreciate your help.

How to avoid messages going automatically to the archive folder in Apple Mail?

Dear list members, I've been using Apple Mail (version 7.3 (1878.6)) on my MacBook Pro 13" (9,2) (MacOS 10.9.4) for years to integrate my GMail, university, and other e-mail accounts in the imap mode. Since some weeks, Mail is behaving odd: some messages are sent automatically to the archive folder. That's quite annoying, as I have to move them manually back to the inbox folder, and sometimes I mess some messages. I did not change any config in Apple Mail or my e-mails servers. Could you please help me solve this problem? Thanks.

The Archive folder in Apple Mail is linked to the All Mail "label" in Gmail. A label is treated like an IMAP folder, but it really isn't the same thing.
In case you weren't aware, Gmail saves every email you send or receive inside the All Mail label. In Gmail, you can tag a file with multiple labels. So, a file that comes into Gmail appears in two places at once, the Inbox and All Mail. When you trash a file, the Inbox label is removed, but it still remains in All Mail.
Previously, the All Mail label was hidden from you in Mail. Apple has been trying to make Mail work with Gmail, but that hasn't been going well.
I have never had a problem, but I have both Gmail and Apple Mail set up such that any email I trash actually gets deleted and not stored on the Gmail server. I also have it set to no display the All Mail folder at all. This may not be a fix as others have similar setups, but have problems with Gmail.
This is how I set it up. I followed the original article, not the Part Deux article. However, you don't need to change the IMAP path prefixes or the label names in Gmail settings. I just have the part where I configured it to delete the emails when I trash them, and hid all the Labels I didn't care to see in IMAP.
Remember, this may not resolve your problems. I don't know of another "fix."

In Apple Mail, how can I maintaining Mailbox links when migrating hosting?

First, I apologize if this question has already been asked and answered. If so, please kindly point me to the appropriate discussion.
I'm in the process of changing hosting for one of my (several) websites and email addresses. I have been using Apple Mail succesfully with the site email using IMAP for several years, and have many thousands of messages, many of which that have been moved into different folders in Mac Mail locally (not the IMAP folders). What I'd like to know is if it's possible to maintain all of these links during and after I migrate my website and all server mail to a new hosting company. I'm very paranoid that all of my links (to mail in those boxes, and relationships to sent mail) will be lost, and that all that mail will simply redownload to the primary Inbox.
On a separate note, I'd also like to know if, once the above issue has been addressed and resolved, it's possible to copy my entire Mail application to another computer so that I can keep a mirror copy of two mail applications fucntioning like an exchange server. Meaning, if I download one piece of mail on one computer, it will automatically be downloaded and marked as read on the other *and* if that mail is moved to a local Mail folder, if it will be moved on the other computer in the other Mail application. Basically so that all mail and mail relationships stay in sync across multiple machines.
Hope this question makes sense. I'm happy to elaborate, and am appreciative of any help.

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?

How can I email over 200 notes from my Apple Mail to that of a friend?

I helped someone recreate all their notes to work in Apple Mail and now simply need to get the notes from my Mac to their Mac. More details below. Thanks in advance. I've searched extensively on a solution to this and haven't found anything.
- Garth
Dragging/dropping all the notes into a new email doesn't work.
Seems like I can attach to an email a single note at a time, but there are related issues:
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           -- At one point, I edited a note I had attached to a draft email and the attachment automatically appeared in my notes list even though I hadn't dropped it in there.
I don't see any other export option. "Archiving" isn't like exporting - it removes them from my Reminders/Notes view and archives them (for me) on a remote GMail server, it seems.
I don't know what to make of the "Forward" option -- it takes all the text from all the notes and drops it into the body of a single email. Is there a way for that to be rebuilt into individual notes for the recipient?
I don't have to use an iOS device for this, do I? I can if needed. I don't see a quick way to email many notes off my iphone to the recipient's email address. (I have iCloud; the recipient does not - they're doing all syncing via USB cable only.)

I assume this is a 1st gen and not the newer models (black box). In any case it is not meant to be used as a storage device and thus no easy way to retrieve

Apple Mail OSX 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard) - Exchange Settings

Hi, I've been going through the forum for the last two hours and found a few posts with people reporting a similar / same problem as I am having.
I'm trying to set up my RGU e-mail account using the Exchange 2007 option as I'd quite like both my address book and iCal to connect to the RGU server. However, whenever I try setting my account up as an Exchange 2007 account, I get the message that
+*"Logging in to the Exchange 2007 server "pod51002.outlook.com" failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct, then click Continue. If the information isn't correct you cannot receive messages"*+
Both my username and password are correct but even if I hit continue and manually populate all the fields Mail will not accept my password / username, although it will accept it fine if I set up Mail to access my university account (it's an rgu.ac.uk domain) via Exchange IMAP.
Now the strange thing is that it works fine with my iPhone when I set it up to access my university account using Exchange - no issues.
I have asked our IT department for help, but they are at a loss as what would cause this problem. I have consequently asked them to reset my password and once that's done and I try setting up Mail to check my University account via Exchange, it works perfectly fine and everything is set up automatically using the auto discovery delver I guess.
Now, to make things even stranger, once I change my password (after his has been reset by IT) I'm obviously being prompted by my iPhone for the new password. However, Apple Mail won't prompt me and works fine with the old password for some time - last time it worked for 2 months but once I then change the password to my updated password (my own one after IT reset it), Mail, once again, causes problems and won't accept my password. If I then delete the Exchange account and try setting it up again, I once again get the message reported above: "Logging in to the Exchange 2007 server "pod51002.outlook.com" failed. Make sure the user name and password you entered are correct..."
Does anyone have any ideas how I may be able to fix this - RGU's IT department has worked with me on this issue for a very long time now and they can't figure out what causes this issues and all should be working just fine and if I do use Entourage, again, it works just fine, though I do have 4 different e-mail accounts (MobileMe and 3 Gmail ones), I don't really want to run two e-mail clients.
Thanks in advance for any help you guys may have to offer.

thanks j.v. yeah i've tried all that but still it doesn't solve the problem .... it something which started after the sophomore OS X Upgrade ... I do wonder if that may have somehow 'messed' up Exchange integration... but the oddest thing is it works for a while once my IT department resets my password ... and continues to work with the 'reset password' although I changed it

Apple Mail Assertion Failure

Hi,
My company uses Office 365 for hosted Exchange email. We have 1 user who uses Apple Mail on OSX 10.7 to connect to the server in Exchange mode (using EWS). This was working great until a few days ago where he has sporadic connection problems. Reproducable situation below:
1) Select 100 emails in any given folder
2) Drag/drop those emails into another folder to move them there
3) They will start moving but it will fail at somepoint and give the message "Cannot execute move operation".
4) After that message appears it is usually several minutes before he can try again or send any emails.
5) Trying to send an email immediately after the error message results in the "Cannot send message using the server" dialog where you are prompted to select a different server to send the message. Choosing an SMTP server results in the message being sent but sometimes (and only sometimes) the message is resent a couple of hours later through the exchange system.
We are getting a million of the following assertion failure messages in the console:
06-06-2012 12:22:05.518 Mail: *** Assertion failure in -[EWSGetFolderResponseOperation handleResponseMessage:withObject:], /SourceCache/Message/Message-1278/MessageStores.subproj/EWSResponseOperation.m: 340
EWS did something wrong: An internal server error occurred. The operation failed. on EWS response <EWSGetFolderResponseOperation: 0x7fb9cb1ae620> (EXECUTING)
0   Message 0x00007fff8f712ef8 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 116
1   Message 0x00007fff8f71308e -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 185
2   Message 0x00007fff8f662c64 -[EWSResponseOperation handleResponseMessage:withObject:] + 556
3   Message 0x00007fff8f656eb6 __-[EWSGetFolderResponseOperation executeOperation]_block_invoke_1 + 77
4   CoreFoundation 0x00007fff87979cee __NSArrayEnumerate + 718
5   Message 0x00007fff8f6572ae -[EWSGetFolderResponseOperation executeOperation] + 453
6   Message 0x00007fff8f73397f -[MonitoredOperation main] + 228
7   Foundation 0x00007fff9152e6b4 -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 705
8   Foundation 0x00007fff91541912 ____NSOQSchedule_block_invoke_2 + 124
9   libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8a798a86 _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 18
10 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8a799965 _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 255
11 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8c83b3da _pthread_wqthread + 316
12 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff8c83cb85 start_wqthread + 13
06-06-2012 12:22:05.518 Mail: Recieved EWS error: Error Domain=MFEWSErrorDomain Code=94 "An internal server error occurred. The operation failed." UserInfo=0x7fb9cecbb7c0 {NSLocalizedDescription=An internal server error occurred. The operation failed.}
We have tried deleting the account and making a new one. As well as removing the mailbox folder (~/Library/Mail/V2/EWS-*) and the Apple Mail plist file. We have also setup the email on a different Mac (also OSX 10.7) but we still get the same assertion failure message.
This user's email account works fine in Outlook on Windows and Mac (Outlook 2010 and 2011) and it also works fine through the online web portal. Outlook 2011 Mac uses EWS (the same protocol Apple Mail uses) and it's not throwing any errors and everything works properly so that is leading me to believe it's an issue with Apple Mail.
Perhaps related, perhaps not, but the user's iPhone and iPad have also stopped working properly with the account. They will sometimes connect but a lot of the time they give an error message about not being able to connect to the server. This leads us to believe it's an exchange server problem, but then why does it work in Outlook and the online portal without any problems? It's only the Apple products that are falling apart.

I ended up having to reproduce the problem in Outlook 2011 Mac before O365 support would help me. Apparently Apple Mail isn't one of the officially supported clients so they weren't going to figure it out for me. Once they ran out of ideas they just gave me the "Apple Mail is officially supported" excuse and stopped helping me.
Although we weren't initially having the problem in Outlook 2011 Mac it did start giving tons of errors during certain operations (with a -19907 error code) after a while. Not sure why it started doing that ... but it did. This was only happening with one of our user's accounts so it had to be something server-side that was the problem. I eventually got a support ticket in their system (despite being a P1 plan holder) so that they could call me. We did some Wireshark capturing to try to diagnose the problem but by that time the problem had fixed itself.

Apple Mail on Snow Leopard 1.6.8

I'm aware this subject isn't new but still I find no solutions ....
Hence, very many thanks to anyone who will help me to solve this substantial problem
Since the unfortunate invention of Icloud my Apple Mail on Snow Leopard 1.6.8 no longer work properly.
My machine:
Model Name:          Mac Pro
Model Identifier:          MacPro4,1
Processor Name:          Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed:          3,32 GHz
RAM 16 GB (Apple Original)
Mail should take care of my me.com accounts, but I also have other accounts located elsewhere with a different suffix (.it, co.uk)
I tried to set up Snow Leopard Mail following every single help tread here and at other websites. None of which seems to work properly, and the variety of "helps" simply tells me there is no "sound" system to use Snow Leopard with the current Apple Email set-up.
Yet "randomly" Mail will stop loading my "me.com" mail opening an error message telling me the "me.com" certificate is no longer trustable.ù
I instructed Apple Mail to "trust" the certificate, but this option does not work, or at least only works randomly.
Mails also never recognizes and loads messages from my other suffix adresses. It enters in an endless connection asking to verify either my User or pass, to finally put these accounts offline. Using Safari with my user and pass (the same as in Apple Mail) everythings works well.
More: if I am working on something else (Long Photoshop Actions, Final Cut Pro rendering and more), this window message halts everything.
This problem is serious, as I usually performed this work at night. or when I don't need to stare at a screen doing nothing.
I erased my computer with the 32 zero pass options and reinstalled the original Snow Leo system (MAC OS X 10.6.2) and this problem vanishes.
As soon as I update with the Combo Upgrade the problem begins again.
My upgrades are always "fresh updates" both as a direct update from the apple menu/Software update, or downloading the combo as dmg to then install.
The result is exactly the same.
I received a fresh copy from the local Apple Store in case my original had some magical problems, but nothing changed.
Yet I can't simply use SL 10.6.2 (the original software I got with the Machine) as many programs I paid for require the latest Snow Leopard.
While I could use another drive with SL 10.6.2, just for the Mail, is really a problem to reboot, to reboot again to continue my work.
In my heart I certainly believe email these days is a "public service" especially after paying thousand dollars over the years, and Apple policy to force user to purchase their latest machines and or, waste time to reconstruct their previous work to adpat it to their industrial policy is simply not fair.
While I understand and support advances in technology and so on, I believe this going forward shouldn't be done at the expenses of the customers, but "freedom of choice" is parts of all constitution as introduced centuries ago in the US.
I read in various site Apple was planning a Snow Leopard 10.6.9 version, but so far nothing happened. Maybe this project was dismissed.
Loosing important emails is a superior problem for my work.
I "have" to use Snow Leopard because I need the Rosetta function Apple discontinued in Lion and Mountain Lion.
Some readers might dislike this post, yet I used Apple since Apple II, I bought at least 100 machines since, I went through the various software/hardware changes, with ease. I believe my current anger is legitimate.
Can someone please help?

you can save a little time - since Mail is one of the Optional Install items found by running the same-named installer within the folder on the DVD. you'll still need the 10.6.7 combo afterwards.

Apple Mail on Macbook via windows domain network and microsoft TMG

Hi folks.
We run a windows network with server 2008 tmg, dcs, and exchange 2007.
We have a few mac clients on our internal network. They log on locally but have all the correct network settings etc for proxy, network and internet access. Everything works fine through TMG including apple mail to our exchange server, and web browsing etc.
The one thing that isn't working is apple mail to other mail providers. Specifically Gmail.
I've created an access rule for testing purposes to allow all outbound traffic from a macbook pro. It still doesn't work, with the following being the only error:
Denied Connection RHSTMG 21/05/2010 10:27:07
Log type: Firewall service
Status: An ingoing packet was dropped because its destination address does not exist on the system, and no appropriate forwarding interface exists.
Rule: None - see Result Code
Source: Internal (10.1.0.81:5353)
Destination: External (224.0.0.251:5353)
Protocol: Unidentified IP Traffic (UDP:5353)
Additional information
•Number of bytes sent: 0 Number of bytes received: 0
•Processing time: 0ms Original Client IP: 10.1.0.81
Someone on another (microsoft) forum said this:
224.0.0.251:5353 is RendezVous protocol, which is used by Mac OS for locating services. it is multicast protocol and it's only purpose is locating things.most it has nothing to do with Google Mail.
The mac has entirely unrestricted access to everywhere (in theory).
Gmail account through windows 7 client using outlook is fine by the way.
Nothing else is denied or refused when looking at the live logging.
Any help with this would be great.
Thanks
Dave

I had this problem too, but I found a post burried on the web that said to add " p06- " (without quotes) before the imap and smpt server names and that worked:
p06-imap.mail.me.com
p06-smtp.mail.me.com
Everything stays checked, SSL for both, authentication and use same username and password checked.

Apple Mail still not working

Since downloading the OS X Yosemite upgrade Apple Mail isn't working. I think there's a major bug.
It hangs and won't respond. Can't access the Mail menu bar commands to make any changes. It crashes. It isn't displaying email content. And, quite oddly, the message viewer window is doing a "punch through" and revealing what's displayed on the desktop behind it.
I see many similar complaints about Apple Mail in these forums. I contacted Apple to see if the issues could be resolved - They acted like they haven't heard anything about Apple Mail problems. They had me re-install Yosemite. Same Apple Mail issues still exists. This is a disaster for those of us who use Apple MAil in our business communications. APPLE HELP!
Does anyone know of a solid work-around, a patch or alternate?
I'm on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014; 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3)

Seniro product support does not know how to fiux almost 2 months later stiil have problem. No customer service
From: Ryan Kirk Hansen <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Case-527123847
Date: December 12, 2013 at 1:35:01 PM EST
To: Mark Miller <[email protected]>
Mark, Was waiting on a response from engineering for status update. As of right now there is still no fix for the syncing issue you and your wife are experiencing with Gmail. There is still no eta on a fix. I have been checking daily and communicating with my team for a resolution.
Ryan
ACMT Senior Product Specialist
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 877-416-4271 EXT 61119
Scheduled In-Office:
Monday-Friday

Apple Mail no longer working with Gmail

Hi,
I've been using Apple Mail for over a year now to coordinate multiple email addresses and it worked well until a few weeks ago when Gmail stopped working. I can add my account, the account loads, but the account is only visible if you go through the subfolders - it isn't visible under "Inbox". This defeats the purpose of using a client, since I'm not notified if I receive a message and to check I would have to flip back down to Gmail's subfolder to check that account and then flip back up to check my other accounts. I at first thought it was a problem with Apple Mail, but after wiping my computer and re-installing three times and upgrading to the new OS, I've decided it's a problem with my Gmail. I also can't get Gmail to work with Apple Mail clients on other computers. It works OK but not great with Thunderbird. Any help would be MUCH appreciated! Thank you!!
Operating system: Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) and Apple Mail 5.0 - problem started while using Snow Leopard and Apple Mail 4

Michael Battenfield wrote:
Anybody have a guess what to check? This is frustrating.
Did you change any setting in Mail? Did you change your gmail account password? Did you activate 2-step verification on your gmail account?
If you haven't done anything from above, maybe problem is with your network... Did you try to turn off your router for few minutes and then turn ON again?
Did you install any 3rd party security apps on your Mac? Did you enable system firewall? Do you use any proxy servers? Do you use VPN?
There might be more questions...
Michael Battenfield wrote:
SOMETHING is funky with Apple Mail.
Works without any problems on my end...

Gmail IMAP account stopped working with Apple Mail

I have Leopard with 10.5.5, just updated it a few days ago.
I have used my gmail account for a few years with Apple mail with no real problems, but now today, I got errors about an invalid certificate, and a little exclimation point by my gmail inbox. I have an iPhone and another Mac that I was syncing all this to so I don't know something with one of those screwed it up, so I have removed all gmail accounts from everything and I'm just trying to set it back up on my main laptop, but i get an error when setting up the new IMAP account. Now it says logging into the IMAP server has failed and to check my username and password... I am following the instructions from the gmail site really close, and I've even reset my gmail password.
anybody know why it still isn't working?

Hmm, turns out my iMac Apple Mail has been resetting the Mailbox activity settings for some random reason which would explain the drafts problem. Wonder why?

Apple Mail is a joke, isn't it?

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