Having Some Mail issues on Apple Mail 5.2

Hi All - Having some mail issues lately with my gmail account Imap set up.
I can receive mail but when trying to send mail it pops up with the follwoing:
"Can not send message using the server smtp.gmail.com"
I tried deleting the gmail account on my iMac and setting it up again. in the set up It gives me two choices as an outgoing server:
smtp.gmail.com and just Gmail. If I choose Gmail I can send the messages, but is this secure? I've always used smtp.gmail.com for outgoing without any problems.
Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Mark

Thanks for responding BGreg - Yes everything looks OK under the advanced tab (see below) I never had any
"Red Dots" in connection doctor on the old smtp.gmail.com but it wouldn't work. The new outgoing server - labeled merely Gmail works and appears to be the same as smtp.gmail.com, but I've never seen this in the past - it's always been called smtp.gmail.com I wonder if Google changed the name?

Similar Messages

OS Update 10.9.1 did NOT fix Gmail syncing issues with Apple Mail App?

Is it just me? Or is anyone else having the same issues of gmail still NOT syncing accross iPad and Mac Mail app in spite of the "update/fix" to OS? My mail on my three Macs and one iPad are still never synced corrctly. When I try "syncronize all mail boxes" in the mail app of the mac, it does not work.
I look directly at my Gmail online thorugh Safari on the Google site and see I have 2 emails in my IN box. Yet on one Mac it has 15 (13 of ehcih were deleted several hours ago). On another Mac it has 18. On the iPad it has it right as that is where I begain looking at end editing email today.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Mike

Information.
Gmail with Apple Mail
Gmail with Apple Mail (2)
Gmail with Apple Mail (3)
Gmail with Apple Mail (4)
Gmail with Apple Mail (5)
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
Mail/Provide Mail Feedback

I have 3 mail accounts in apple mail. One of them has had the spinning ball going for several days and I cannot receive mail in this account. I can receive mail in this account on my iPad and by signing into aol on safari. It's obviously a glitch in Apple

I have 3 mail accounts in apple mail. One of them has had the spinning ball going for several days and I cannot receive mail in this account or delete messages etc. For some reason, I CAN send mail on Apple mail using this account, although it takes several minutes. I can receive mail in this account on my iPad and by signing into aol on safari and internet explorer on my office PC. It's obviously a glitch in Apple's Mail. I've deleted this account and reopened it in Mail on my Mac Pro with no difference. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, this E amil account is major to my business.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
sounds like a corrupt database or index
the glitch is your home folder and mail folder, esp look at syncservices
I'd post in the mail or Lion forum where you will find similar issues being discussed.
http://www.apple.com/support/mail

I am having some serious issues with firefox, i can't print anything because it is stuck on fax and I can't use any of the drop down menus on any site

I am having some serious issues with firefox to the point of choosing another search engine. I can't print anything because it is stuck on fax and won't let me change it to my printer when i do try to select my printer it jumps right back to fax. The drop down menus do not work on any of the sites I go to. For example when purchasing clothes and you have to choose a size from a drop down menu I can't do it when I click on the drop down menu it doesn't work at all. I don't have a virus I ran my virus protector and no viruses are present. I don't have any suspicious issues going on with my computer so there has to be something in Firefox that is causing my issues. I tried internet explorer and I don't have any issues there. I hope you can help me because I love Firefox and would really like to continue to use it.

Lots of issues there, main one getting fcpx going again, try deleting the preferences using the utility deveoped by these guys.
http://www.digitalrebellion.com
Try deleting your render files and re-rendering the project.
Start with these and let us know how you go.
Tony

HT1277 How do I sync Google Apps mail account with Apple Mail 5.2?

How do I sync Google Apps mail account with Apple Mail 5.2?

To add your Google Apps mail account:
1. Select Mail-->Preferences
2. Select the Accounts icon and click the + button in the lower left corner.
3. An Add Account screen should appear
ADD ACCOUNT
4. Add your
Full Name
Email Address, and
Google Apps password
in the appropriate boxes.
5. Click the Continue button and the Incoming Mail Server screen should appear.
INCOMING MAIL SERVER
6. From the Account Type pull down menu, select Exchange IMAP.
7. Fill in the text boxes as follows:
Description: what ever makes sense to you
Incoming Mail Server: imap.gmail.com
Username: [email protected]
Password: Google Apps password
Outlook Web Access Server: www.gmail.com
8. Click the continue button and the Outgoing Mail Server screen should appear.
OUTGOING MAIL SERVER
9. Fill in the text boxes as follows and make sure Use only this server and Use Authentication is checked:
Description: what ever makes sense to you
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com
8. Click the Continue button and the Account Summary screen should appear.
ACCOUNT SUMMARY
9. Click the Create button
10. You're done!

How to I set up a verizon mail account in Apple mail?

How to I get up my verizon mail account in Apple mail on my MacBook Air and iMac?
It's set up an works on my iPhone and iPad, but even though I duplicate the setting (as far a I can tell),
it doesn't work. It keeps akiing me for the password, thought I set the exact same password that works on
my iPhone/iPad.
Thanks,
Hal

The following from Verizon support may help: https://www.verizon.com/support/residential/internet/fiosinternet/email/setup+an d+use/questionsone/85572.htm

TS3276 Someone who receives my mail sent from Apple Mail cannot receive attachments or read my email even though they are on a Mac using Safari. How could they be using Safari to receive or read my mail?

Someone who receives my mail sent from Apple Mail cannot receive attachments or read my email even though they are on a Mac using Safari. How could they be using Safari to receive or read my mail?

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink. This person receiving my email, while on a Mac with Safari is reading their mail through Safari using Horde--our recent discovery. Why they chose to do that in unclear. The last email we sent, however, was miraculously read and received and the attachment was viewed with no problem after we told them our mail was coming from a Mac thriugh Apple Mail. It seems that telling them that our emails were coming from a Mac and using Apple Mail was enough to make them think that perhaps THEY were doing something not quite right. Thank you both, Level 7 and Level 5.
But thank you especially for the meteorologists in the UK for putting forth the correct routes for Sandy these last days, you probably saved a lot of lives.

I want to backup several hundreds of emails to an external hard disk. The mail program is Apple Mail version 7.1. The Operating System is OSX Version 10.9.1 Mavericks. Can anybody advise me either where I might find instructions to undertake the backup or

I want to backup several hundreds of emails to an external hard disk. The mail program is Apple Mail version 7.1. The Operating System is OSX Version 10.9.1 Mavericks. Can anybody advise me either where I might find instructions to undertake the backup or send me the instructions

right-click or control-click on the mailbox account you want to back up in Mail, in the box on the left under MAILBOXES.
select Export Mailbox...
pick a destination for the backup folder

Mail issues with Apple's Mail

I was using Outlook Express to send & receive mail. And then (because Outlook Express has been giving me fits with errors and needing to put my password in every time I wanted to use it) I switched to Mail (the one that came on my Mac).
And now, with Mail, something crazy is happening on my iPhone and iPad. It showed that it was downloading and downloading and downloading, but I don’t know what it was downloading. Archived stuff? Everything that is in everything in every folder on my Mac?
Then it stopped downloading stuff, and now it won’t send, I get an error saying that it Cannot Send Mail.
I tried to delete my email account from settings so that I could start over, but the gear just spun and spun for over 30 minutes.
I have no idea what is going on, but I think that it must be connected to the fact that I switched from Outlook Express to Mail.
Please, if anyone can help I would really appreciate it.

Hello suecheat
Check out the article below to continue troubleshooting your issues with sending mail. You will use Connection Doctor to find out the specific issue.
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
Regards,
-Norm G.

Arial font issue in Apple Mail

I'm a designer.
I have a MacPro tower running 10.9.5
Apple Mail 7.3
and FontExplorer X Pro 4.2.1
I've had issues with fonts (as one does with so many) and finally got the cache cleaned up for one issue when a new one has popped up.
I have my mac restart every night, and it my login apps are Mail and Font Explorer.
When Mail first opens, my unread messages number in the sidebar are shown in "Last Resort" and the sender's email is shown as all pound signs.
Sometimes to fix this I quit mail, go into FontExplorer and turn Arial on and off, and then re-open Mail. Sometimes I can get it to fix itself by quitting and re-opening Mail a few times.
It's not a massive issue, but it is pretty annoying to see first thing in the morning!
Other than rebuilding my 6k font library, any suggestions on what's happening?

Try going to Applications/Font Book and validating the font. There may be option to do that in Font Explorer.

Solution to yahoo mail setup issues with Apple mail...

There have to be a lot of people out there who have a similar setup as me --- ISP is Verizon (FIOS), and am using an iMac w/OS X, v 10.7.4, and Apple Mail v 5.2. No matter what I did, I could not get Apple mail to connect to Yahoo's smtp server... (Gmail was not working either) I spent hours on this. FINALLY -- I discovered the problem. My FIOS router/firewall was on the maximum security setting, which only allows outgoing smtp mail to port 25! Once I changed that firewall setting (which allows outgoing smtp mail to port numbers other than 25), I was finally able to connect to yahoo's smtp server! Now my Apple mail works just fine. Here are the settings I used:
Incoming mail server: pop.mail.yahoo.com
Incoming port: 995
Outgoing mail server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com
Outgoing port: Used "custom port" set to 465
SSL is used for both incoming and outgoing servers, with password as the authentication method.
Full email address is used wherever it says "user name" in mail preferences
* This is with Yahoo Plus mail. And before you do anything with Apple mail, you have to make sure that you enable "POP" mail in your Yahoo Plus account, under mail - settings.
I hope this saves some people the hours of time that it cost me!!

I have managed to get incoming mail to work. It is the outgoing settings that are still not working on my system. I have tried every configuration. I have gone back and forth between Verizon and Apple Care too many times to count.
Do you have to turn down the security level on the FIOS router/firewall before making these changes? If you do, it probably makes the system more vulnerable to malware, etc.
I have standard Yahoo Verizon mail. I believe you can enable it for POP mail. It certainly always worked for me before. Like you I have tried everything. I was also told that my internet connection is PPPoE versus DHCP which may also cause problems. Like you, I have spent days trying to sort this out.

Pop gmail issues with apple mail

I have one pop gmail account for two macs and two iphones. Normally we can retrieve email from each device. however, when my wife's macbook pro retrieves the messages using apple mail, the messages remain on the server but none of the other devices can retreive the same mail. My gmail is set up for pop. So the messages stay on the server until i personally remove them.
why can't our other apple devices retrieve the email that is still on the server after my wife's macbook pro accesses the server and retrieves the email?
thanks for your help.
hnhelton

I have each device to leave message on the server. We have it set up this way so that my wife and I can see all the mail that comes into our own devices. Then we can delete off each device as desired. I go in to the server once a month and delete old mail.
So to recap: My wife's macpro uses apple mail. it retrieves the mail from the server; but leaves it on the server. However, though the email is still on the server, the other devices cannot retrieve the email. it is like the email is old email that your device has already uploaded; but it hasn't uploaded to the other devices because my wife's mac opens the inbox on server first.
I know that this sounds confusing. it did not always work this way. for a long time any of our devices could open the inbox on the server, retrieve the messages and leave the email on the server inbox for the other devices. this issue is new.

Gmail outgoing server issues with Apple Mail

Hi,
I'm currently running OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion, and trying to set up my gmail account in Apple Mail. I can recieve mail just fine, but am not able to send mail. for the outgoing server i typed "smtp.gmail.com." When i look at the Mail Connection Doctor it says that the imap incoming was able to login in and connect, as well as the smtp is succeeding with its connection to the server. However I keep getting the message that says "cannot send message using the server smtp.gmail.com"
With the connection doctor window still up, upon trying to send my letter again, an error comes up...even though the connections are still good. The error reads:
INITIATING CONNECTION May 09 13:56:22.639 -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
CONNECTED May 09 13:56:22.755 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
READ May 09 13:56:22.785 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
220 mx.google.com ESMTP b8sm443235igx.3 - gsmtp
WROTE May 09 13:56:22.797 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
EHLO [192.168.1.149]
READ May 09 13:56:22.830 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
250-mx.google.com at your service, [162.17.148.217]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250 CHUNKING
WROTE May 09 13:56:22.835 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
STARTTLS
READ May 09 13:56:22.868 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelNone] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
WROTE May 09 13:56:23.039 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
EHLO [192.168.1.149]
READ May 09 13:56:23.069 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
250-mx.google.com at your service, [162.17.148.217]
250-SIZE 35882577
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH XOAUTH2 PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250 CHUNKING
WROTE May 09 13:56:23.073 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>
READ May 09 13:56:23.105 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
530-5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more at
530 5.5.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=14257 b8sm443235igx.3 - gsmtp
WROTE May 09 13:56:23.109 [kCFStreamSocketSecurityLevelTLSv1SSLv3] -- host:smtp.gmail.com -- port:587 -- socket:0x7fa915b0bec0 -- thread:0x7fa9146888b0
QUIT
If anybody knows what the problem is or how to fix it, I'd be greatly appreciative. In addition, I do have this account being fed to my phone, to which it can send/receive mail just fine.
Thanks

By default Mail should enter all the correct setting for Gmail.
It's asking for authentication.
Select to Edit SMTP settings.
Select your Gmail account from the list.
Click on Advanced.
√ Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
Gmail likes port 465 but Apple default to all ports.
Make sure your password is entered.
Use the Connection doctor to test your settings. You should see green lights to show your receiving and sending settings are correct. Click on Show Details if you see a red light.

HT2500 Some months ago, my Apple Mail started downloading duplicate messages every time it checked for mail. It doesn't happen to my gmail, but happens to my POP account. What happened or what did I do to cause this and how do I stop the downloading of du

How do I get Applemail to stop downloading duplicate messages. It only started doing this 4 months ago. It didn't happen for 5 years before and doesn't happen to my gmail account.

For what it's worth, you posted this in 2011, and here in 2014 I am still having this same issue. Over the last two days, I have had to unlock my apple account 8 times. I didn't get any new devices. I haven't initiated a password reset. I didn't forget my password. I set up two factor authentication and have been able to do the unlocking with the key and using a code sent to one of my devices.
That all works.
It's this having to unlock my account every time I go to use any of my devices. And I have many: iMac, iPad, iPad2, iPad mini, iPhone 5s, iPod touch (daughter), and my old iPhone 4 being used as an ipod touch now. They are all synced, and all was working just fine.
I have initiated an incident with Apple (again) but I know they are just going to suggest I change my Apple ID. It's a simple one, and one that I am sure others think is theirs. I don't want to change it. I shouldn't have to. Apple should be able to tell me who is trying to use it, or at least from where.
Thanks for listening,
Melissa

Yahoo Mail bug with Apple mail?

Hi,
Im using Mail to send and receive my yahoo mail.
Lately, my mail is taking approx 4 hours to be delivered when sent from apple mail.
Ive read that there is a bug when sending to the yahoo servers.
Has anyone experienced this?
Is there a solution?
Thanks!

I'm having the same issue ever since updating to 10.5.2. Yahoo is delivering very slowly if at all. Indeed I've had more undelivered messages than delivered. Have deleted and re-created my Yahoo mailbox to no avail. Other solutions?

Having Some Mail issues on Apple Mail 5.2

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for