Can't add account, am redirected to mail

I am unable to add ANY mail accounts under system preferences. It hangs and eventually redirects me to mail preferences. Did keychain & disk repairs & reinstalled Mountain Lion. Everything works fine on my other Mac.

I can add it in Mail preferences no problem. I am concerned that not being able to add it as an account might be the sign of a larger issue.

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This also applies to my Facebook setting. Help!
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Settings>General>Restrictions>Allow Changes>Accounts. Check that setting. If you restricted changes to accounts, those items will be greyed out and inaccessible.

Can't add accounts to iCal

Hi!
It all started with a runtime error when I tried to add a subscription on a calendar from my University. It stated "An unknown error occurred, please try again later. Error -1. "
Couldn't find anything on the subject with that runtime error, so I tried to clear the iCal cache according to the methods on wikihow.
Said and done and as suspected the calendar had a clean slate and it rebuilt a new cache on it's own.
Now to my problem, whenever I try to add a new account in the Archive->Preferences->Accounts I get to the point of where I log onto an account, check
the box for "calendar" and "add account" . Then nothing. The same goes for every single account I've tried to add, google etc.
All except for Facebook account which I've successfully added!
So how do I solve this one?
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My iCal Preferences tell me that I have CalDAV (whatever that is). It seems that I lost the ability to attach files to calendar events with the recent Mobile Me calendar upgrade. I hope Apple will bring back this functionality soon. However looking at my iCal Help, there is an instruction given to attach files to events. Problem is that I can't seem to get it to work. It says ...
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Just upgraded from my G4 running 10.4.x to a Mini running 10.5.2. There are two user log ins on the machine. I set up my e-mail accounts in Mail on my "side" of the machine, but my partner cannot "Add Accounts" in Mail on their side of the machine---in Mail's "File" menu, "Add Accounts" is greyed out. Any solution?

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Empathy - Can't add accounts, login, etc.

Empathy version: 3.2.2-1
I've added my Google accounts through User > Online Accounts and am trying to get Empathy integration working.
When I run Empathy, a lot of the menu entries are disabled (e.g. everything in the File menu except Quit). When I go to Edit > Accounts nothing happens.
I then kill all Empathy related processes through the terminal. When I run /usr/bin/empathy-accounts manually nothing happens and it just hangs indefinitely. I've tried reinstalling but that doesn't help either.

Thanks, that link helped but I've run into additional problems. With telepathy installed I can set up accounts on ICQ / Yahoo, but the telepathy-gabble library is giving me issues (which effects Google or Facebook accounts).
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mcd_account_check_parameters: CM 'gabble' doesn't implement protocol 'jabber'
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Can't add to Address Book via Mail App

I had some permissions problems a while back (I did an "apply to enclosing folders" on my system disk - don't ask - I'm an idiot) and while I fixed them by creating a new system and migrating the old system data to the new system, some problems still persist.
The most annoying one being that I can't add Address Book Contacts to the address book right from the Mail application. I can add a contact manually through the Address Book application, but this doesn't seem to be working "interapplication".
Does anyone have any ideas how this might be fixed? I've repaired permissions NUMEROUS times and really the only ones I get are ACL's are either missing, or unexpected.
I think this same type of problem is inhibiting me from adding dates to iCal from the Mail application as well.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help & cooperation.
Best,
Fred

fredfx wrote:
This IS a brand new system install and update. (less than 2 weeks).
This hasn't worked since I did the new system install.
That does not change my advice, whether you take it is up to you.

[Solved] Can't add accounts in Empathy

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I recently started having problems with my mail account. I deleted the mail folder and started over and now can no longer add any email accounts besides my icloud account. When I try I get the following message.
Logging in to the optonline.net POP server “mail.optonline.net” 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.
My mail accounts still work on my ipad and iphone with the exact same information. Something else I find strange, when I go to add a new account my old deleted account already appears in the email address section. Why would a deleted account, presumably one it should n't know anymore come up as a suggestion without me adding it? Does mail keep a copy of the account hidden somewhere else besides the plist and in the hidden library?
I am at wits end. I can think of any reason that I shouldn't be able to add the email when all the information is correct. I have also checked my computer for viruses and malware with several programs, the latest one being SOPHOS. Any suggestions?

Don't know what any of this means:
INITIATING CONNECTION Dec 17 21:40:48.848 -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
INITIATING CONNECTION Dec 17 21:40:48.849 -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x7fc454cafd40
INITIATING CONNECTION Dec 17 21:40:48.851 -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:10 -- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x7fc454c8b020
CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:48.912 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc45388cc60 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:48.939 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc453c35c60 -- thread:0x7fc454cafd40
CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:49.021 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.127 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc45388cc60 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
+OK Messaging Multiplexor (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.159 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc453c35c60 -- thread:0x7fc454cafd40
+OK Messaging Multiplexor (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.220 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
220 mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
WROTE Dec 17 21:40:49.278 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc45388cc60 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
CAPA
WROTE Dec 17 21:40:49.336 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc453c35c60 -- thread:0x7fc454cafd40
CAPA
WROTE Dec 17 21:40:49.368 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:imap.gmail.com -- port:993 -- socket:0x7fc455463110 -- thread:0x7fc454b6d290
1.250 CAPABILITY
WROTE Dec 17 21:40:49.416 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
EHLO [10.0.1.25]
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.458 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc45388cc60 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
+OK list follows
TOP
PIPELINING
UIDL
RESP-CODES
AUTH-RESP-CODE
USER
SASL PLAIN
IMPLEMENTATION MMP-6.2p8.04 Feb 28 2007
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.517 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc453c35c60 -- thread:0x7fc454cafd40
+OK list follows
TOP
PIPELINING
UIDL
RESP-CODES
AUTH-RESP-CODE
USER
SASL PLAIN
IMPLEMENTATION MMP-6.2p8.04 Feb 28 2007
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.578 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
250-mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-EXPN
250-HELP
250-XADR
250-XSTA
250-XCIR
250-XGEN
250-XLOOP C678AEFCBE1B202D96AB1985CBD4A774
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=LOGIN
250-NO-SOLICITING
250 SIZE 104857600
CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:49.662 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc45388cc60 -- thread:0x7fc454d2d590
CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:49.729 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:110 -- socket:0x7fc453c35c60 -- thread:0x7fc454cafd40
CONNECTED Dec 17 21:40:49.837 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:25 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
READ Dec 17 21:40:49.986 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:25 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
220 mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net -- Server ESMTP (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007))
WROTE Dec 17 21:40:50.120 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:25 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
EHLO [10.0.1.25]
READ Dec 17 21:40:50.210 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:mail.optonline.net -- port:25 -- socket:0x7fc455130430 -- thread:0x7fc454a2e540
250-mta3.srv.hcvlny.cv.net
250-8BITMIME
250-PIPELINING
250-DSN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-HELP
250-XLOOP 6E90941A9D3837DEDFC4281877FB0596
250-ETRN
250-NO-SOLICITING
250 SIZE 104857600

How can I add account privileges to a newly created file?

I have multipe accounts on my Mac. Two of them need to share certain files, but not with everyone else so I can't use the Shared folder. When I create a new text file with AppleScript it has default ownership to the account that created it, but I need to give read & write privilages to it to the other account as well. I can do this manually, but there are lots of files sometimes. One trick I've found is to reset privilages from the next higher folder. This saves time, but sometimes I forget. Also when I do this it causes Time Machine to think all the files in that folder have been updated. If the folder is large it may cause Time Machine to purge a old backup version. What I'd like to do is find some AppleScript code I can use to add user "A" with read & write access to the permissions of a new file at the time my AppleScript creates that file. Any ideas?

Thanks for the reference. It was interesting and provided me with a direction I hadn't thought of: User Groups and Terminal commands which led to DO SHELL SCRIPT.
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