Imap accounts won't go online

A very strange thing started to happen to my Macbook Pro since yesterday. My Imap accounts won't go online. My internet is working fine. My POP accounts sync normally. When I try to put the Imap accounts online Mail gives me the following message "error 51 - network is unreacheable". I have no idea of how to correct this.
Thanks for helping,
Marco
Macbook Pro Intel Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Macbook Pro Intel Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Well, I don’t know what could be the problem either, but something to look at is that there is nothing wrong with your network settings.
In particular, go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Try also turning OFF all the network port configurations except the one needed to connect to Internet and see whether that makes a difference -- if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.

Similar Messages

Two Mail accounts won't go online simultaneously

Hi. I've had one account set up in Mail, and it's worked great for me. Today, I tried adding a new account so I can receive/view my personal and business emails at the same time. Problem is, when one account is connected, the other one has the little "!" triangle next to it. And when I click to take all accounts online, the thing just spins and spins forever. How can I get both accounts to connect at the same time?
By the way, these are both IMAP accounts. They have almost identical setup info, so I know they are both set up correctly.

Well, I don’t know what could be the problem either, but something to look at is that there is nothing wrong with your network settings.
In particular, go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Try also turning OFF all the network port configurations except the one needed to connect to Internet and see whether that makes a difference -- if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.

HT204075 email account won't stay online

Mac email connects to the internet but can't connect to the POP server or the SMTP server, so I can't send or receive. Checked all settings and they're correct. Settings show the mail account is "offline" but it won't stay online for more than a few seconds when I click "take all accounts online.

Triple-click the word "telnet" in the line below on this page to select the whole line:
telnet pop.centurytel.net 995
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
You should almost instantly get three or more lines of output below what you entered, one of which is this:
Escape character is '^]'.
If there's no output within ten seconds, consider that a failure. If you get something different from the above, please post it in a reply. You can then quit Terminal.

GMail IMAP account won't download new messages - still can send

Really bizzare bug...I use Mail with two accounts setup, both of which are GMail Imap accounts. Since yesterday I have not been able to download new messages for my inbox whenever Mail has been opened already.
When I first open Mail, it seems to sync correctly and get new messages, but after it's been open if anyone sends me a new message, Mail fails to download the message. Manually clicking "Get New Mail" or using the "Get All New Mail" from menu doesn't seem to help.
Rebuilding my Inbox does help in that it syncs my inbox back up, but after that it doesn't download messages like it's supposed to every minute (preference setting).
Can't think of anything majorly different that I've done in the last day, although I did install RC1 of "Things"....
I'm on OS X version 10.5.6

Has anyone actually done this and had it work? I'm a little anxious to try it given the "Jeez. Good catch..."
If this fix works, why does it work?
I'm running Mac OS 10.5.4 and Mail 3.3 on a MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo with 1GB RAM.
I'm not sure that there is a connection, but Mail stopped downloading email from all my various email accounts shortly after I added a new IMAP account. I've now got 3 active IMAP accounts (one is Gmail), an inactive HTTPMail acct (hotmail) and an inactive POP acct.
I have tried taking all accts offline and bringing all back online at once and each individually. I have quit Mail and re-launched it. I have tried rebuilding each acct's inbox. I have tired re-launching after deactivating all accts but one. None of this has worked. If I click on "Get Mail", the pinwheels spin next to each acct inbox for a second, but no new mail appears.
What is really strange that one or two emails might download from any given account on any given day, but that's it. The one or two new emails that might appear from time to time appear to do so over night - I get up in the morning to check my email and discover at most one or two new emails, even though when I check the accts by webmail there are dozens of new emails between the three accts.
God, I HATE webmail!
When relaunching or taking the Gmail acct online I sometimes get an error message that it's certificate is invalid. I find this hard to believe as Google is no penny-anty operation, but I clikc "connect" and still no new email.
Message was edited by: jnorris

New IMAP account won't appear on Apple Mail and yet wipes server

I have a problem with Apple Mail and a new IMAP account I've created.
I have one IMAP account (mail@*.com) which works fine and then recently I created a second IMAP account on that same server (property@*.com). I copied the details from the server to Apple Mail and yet as soon as I set up the account on Apple Mail then the test mails I send vanish from the server and do not show up in Apple Mail. When I remove that account on my Apple Mail then I can send messages to via webmail which show up on the server again.
Similarly when I use Thunderbird as my mail client then the property@*.com IMAP mail shows up fine.
Is there some conflict with having two IMAP accounts from the same server? is there any way I can get round that - set up an alias to have my property mail hived off to a different account / or even folder?
I would appreciate help... although I notice that 4 out of 5 of my last posts didn't get answered...
Alistair
<Edited by Host>

It's a bad idea to post your email addresses - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Moderators to remove them.

Gmail on iPhone (IMAP Account) Won't Send Emails

So my IMAP account on my iPhone 3G is Gmail. Yesterday I could send emails all over the place and it worked fine. I turned on my iPhone 3G today and for some reason it kept saying "The Sending Address is Invalid" message every time I tried to send an email. My IMAP is also linked to my MacBook's Mail utility and I can send messages there no problem. It's just on my iPhone 3G that seems to be the problem. I even tried deleting the account and re-setting it up on my iPhone 3G...I've even tried contacting Google for help with Gmail setup but so far, nothing has worked.
Is anybody else having issues with their IMAP email accounts on their iPhone 3G's? Does anybody know how to fix this?

Hey, so I checked the Google Discussion Forums and yes, it is a Google problem. I turned off my primary SMTP server which is Gmail, and I turned on my ROGERS SMTP server. This way I can still receive Gmail messages on the IMAP server and send out emails on the ROGERS server. I guess we'll just have to wait till Google fixes whatever problem there is with the Gmail SMTP server before we use them again. Hope that helps everyone with this problem.
p.s. This should work for FIDO customers as well (other Canadians) and AT&T in the U.S.

Imap mail accounts won't go online (OSX 10.7.2)

Sudenly my mail accounts (imap) stoped going online. I use Macbook Pro, OSX Lion 10.7.2. Could someone help me please?

Your issue maybe due to an issue with 10.7.2 and Adobe AIR. I would recommend upgrading to 10.7.3 which resolves the issue. If you still continue to have difficulties then I would recommend reviewing Troubleshoot AIR installation | Mac OS - http://helpx.adobe.com/air/kb/troubleshoot-air-installation-mac-os.html.

Exchange 2007 account won't go online

Hi,
I am running OS X 10.6.4 on my MacBook, with the latest versions of everything available through Software Update.
I am unable to get iCal to work with my Exchange 2007 account. I can add the account through preferences, but it never shows up in the left-hand pane where all the other calendars go. I don't run into this problem with my other Google calendar, so it seems to be specific to the Exchange calendar. Curiously, there is no error message from iCal, which acts as if the calendar is there but does not put it online. In the "Online Status" my Exchange Calendar is listed, but if I select to bring the account online nothing happens.
As it happens I've been trying to get iCal to work since upgrading to Snow Leopard last October. Previously I had a different problem, in which the Exchange Calendar would show up in the left-hand pane but would ask for a "valid email address" for the account. It seemed at the time that the problem was that my address is not published in the GAL, but this is something I have no control over personally, and the system admin won't publish it for me. I found it curious that iCal requires this, but Mail and AddressBook presumably do not, as they set up instantly when I upgraded to Snow Leopard and have both worked flawlessly ever since.
I haven't come across anyone with a similar problem when Googling the problem, so this is probably a long shot, but does anyone have some advice on what might help here or how I can go about troubleshooting this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
nanoo

I had the exact same issue. Found nothing in the console logs other than "can't refresh account". Turns out my problem was wrong e-mail address with the exchange server. I used the exact e-mail address that this particular exchange expected and it added it to the panel on the left.
Our setup is a bit weird cause we have 2 exchange servers, but I let iCal figure out everything itself using the "old" exchange server and then afterwards went and edited the server settings to use the "new" server, and it kept working with these settings.
Just a bit annoying that iCal was so vague about what the problem was... Also didn't help that I upgraded and moved to the "new" server and changed my password all at once, so don't know what cause the problem in the first place.

Account won't stay online and get new messages

I have 2 accounts on Mail, my work and my yahoo account. I receive all my messages fine at work (tiger) and cannot receive them at home, mail keeps telling me the account is offline at home when I try to take it online it refreshes and then puts a squiggly line next to the account name. I have not selected to delete messages from server. I've checked to make sure all my settings are the same from the office computer and home computer. I'm not sure what to do next.

I found (in solving an iTunes issue) that a hard reboot of the ISP's modem cleared up a Mail issue very similar to the one you describe.

My Exchange account won't go online

I get this message when I try to Sync my Exchange (work) account. Recently updated to iOS 5, and Lion. Any Help?
The account "Exchange" currently can’t be modified. To discard your changes and continue using the version of your calendars that’s on the server, click Revert to Server. To save your changes on your computer until the problem is resolved, click Go Offline.

Mail won't go online with IMAP but Exchange works

Mac mail has beeen working fine for me for many years. Last day or so all my non Exhcange accounts won't go online. I read through the forum. I have checked the connection doctor. It is "unable to contact server". I tried network utility to port scan the IMAPS port. That worked just fine. I do have a software firewall called Little Snitch. I checked all the rules in there. There are no block rules for mac Mail. I also dissabled the the firewall with no results. I was hoping to get my primary gmail account working. So I removed it and re-added it. No luck.
I think this problem may be related to SSL certificates. At work we have a firewall that does SSL termination. It has a self signed certificate on it. I have often gotten mismatched SSL warnings when picking up mail. I can't seem to find the SSL certificates anywhere on the mac so I don't know where to delete them. Removing and re-adding the gmail account should have refreshed the SSL certificate. So thism may not be the issue.
Any suggestions would really help.

Rebooting the Mac fixed the problem. I have no idea why. Still unable to locate the mail ssl certificates.

Mail won't set up IMAP account

Hello,
When setting up my Gmail account, I don't have the option to set it up manually as an IMAP account. After I enter my name, email and password in the first dialogue box, I click "continue" and it automatically sets it up as a POP account. I understand there's supposed to be a "automatically set up this account" checkbox but I'm not seeing one (there's only a "continue" button). I've already enabled IMAP on my Gmail account settings. I also trashed the Mail prefs file (com.apple.mail) and restarted my computer. No success.
I'd very much appreciate any advice, tips, etc.. Thanks very much in advance.
- Candice

Candice,
Welcome to the Discussions.
In my experience you should have the opportunity to change the POP type setting to IMAP, but haven't tried the Gmail lately. However, if you hold down the Option key while clicking on the + sign to add an account, you will go into manual mode.
Ernie

Outlook 2010 won't let me set up a second imap account

I am attempting to set up a secon IMAP account on my outlook 2010. When I click the "NEXT" button and try to save the setup file using "Add New Account" I receive a message "The Requested Operation failed" and I can't get beyond this.
And, Outlook doesn't remember the settings I just input.
Anybody else experience this and have a solution. I would be most appreciative.
Dale Peronteau
[email protected]

Hi Dale Peronteau,
I'm posting to check if the problem has been solved.
And here are the detailed steps on how to create a new profile to test this issue:
1. Exit Outlook.
2. Go to Start > Control Panel, click or double-click Mail.
3. Click Show Profiles. Choose Prompt for a profile to be used.
4. Click Add.
5. Type a name for the profile, and then click OK.
6. Highlight the profile, and choose Properties. Then Email Accounts.., add your email account in the profile.
7. Start Outlook, and choose this new profile.
Also, you can try to repair your Office from Control Panel > Programs and Features, right click the Office program and choose Change, then Repair.
Sincerely,
Max Meng
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.

HT1296 I have switched from a Exchange account to an imap account and now my contacts won't sync from my computer to my iPhone - what to do?

I have switiched from an Exchange account (which I just deleted) to a imap account account. But I can't seem to get my contacts to sync from my laptop onto my new account.
What should I do?

What do you mean the ones "unique" to your phone? If you were not syncing them with something, they are gone. They are only part of the backup to preserve the list of favorite numbers and recent calls.
Don't worry about having to restore the previous OS. You can not do so at all.

Mail Won't Display Both POP and IMAP Accounts in Inbox

When I set up Leopard Mail I had my two accounts gmail and Comcast set up as POP3 as gmail hadn't enabled imap on my account yet. With imap now enabled I went and switched my gmail account over to imap from pop. The gmail account seems to work fine, but my pop account essentially disappears. Pop3 emails (comcast account) don't appear in the Inbox. However, I can search for them and then they can be found. When I removed the imap account, the pop3 emails appeared back in the inbox exactly how they should be. When I remade the imap account they disappeared again.
I can't see what I am doing wrong, so this looks like a bug. Opinions?
Andy

Okay, it just fixed itself without me doing anything, or even quitting the program again. It still seems like a bug.
Andy

Imap accounts won't go online

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for