Imap server problems on MacBook

I am not able to get my email (ie. gmail) working on my macbook air. It states the server is not responding.
I have tried several of the suggestions: turning on imap in gmail, changing ports, etc. but nothing is working.
can someone suggest something?

Hey,
Did you manage to get an answer? Are you deleting internet temp files? Some time ago I had the same issue when I started using Veoh Web player.
It seems that software saved the downloaded video information and, of course, the free space began decreasing.
Not sure whether this answer may help you but, who knows? :-))
Kind regards

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Is there an IMAP server problem?

Since Friday afternoon my email client has been having extreme difficulty connecting to my incoming email server. As I write this post there are five unread messages in my inbox when I check the webmail site, but none have arrived in my client's inbox because it cannot connect to the server.
As far as I know, all the server settings are correct on my email client, and the fact that it was working fine until Friday afternoon supports this.
The problem seems only to be with the incoming server, because the in-built 'Connection Doctor' in the Apple Mail client app consistently shows the connection to the outgoing (SMTP) server to be rock solid. However it is forever showing the incoming (IMAP) server status as 'Connecting to server...' with a spinning gearwheel showing.
The server I have set as my incoming IMAP one is: imap.mail.yahoo.com
As I say, this has worked satisfactorily for ages, but has suddenly become unreliable.
We have two user accounts on the computer here, (each having different btinternet.com email address, and the same problem of not connecting with the IMAP server exists on both our BT email accounts.
I have been onto Apple Support, and by doing various diagnostic procedures they tell me there is nothing wrong with my Mail app.
I had a 'live chat' session with BT Support on Friday afternoon, and quite frankly I was disgusted at their response, which was to tell me that they 'didn't have the expertise' to deal with my issue. They directed me to sign-up to a paid-for service called BT Expert Tech or something...
Is anything going on with the IMAP servers, because everything seems to point towards it being them causing my current problems.

I have had issues with my imap account via. Yahoo, similar to you.
Mine works for a number of weeks then fails.
I have read somewhere that a setting of apple.imap.mail.yahoo.com is more reliable.
I tried it and it has been more reliable but recently started playing up again.
My solution was to use my iCloud imap account which is reliable and has never gone down.
I changed my bt accounts back to pop and have them forward the emails to icloud.
I keep the Pop accounts in the mail app on my MacBook Pro and on my iPad so I can send emails from those accounts.
I setup some rules in iCloud to sort the emails into folders created in iCloud for the BT accounts.
This works for me and is reliable.
I am hoping when BT change us to Critical Path email that iMap will then work correctly.
Good Luck

Repeated connection to Gmail imap server problem.

I get this message everytime I try to get my Gmail account emails, in Apple Mail: 'The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings." My account info is correct. I didn't change anything and all my settings are correct as far as I know. It first started happening on my iPhone, now on my iMac as well. I've tried specifying the gmail imap server (in quotes above) in the mail settings for my Gmail account, but to no avail. MANY people are having the same problem (google it if you don't believe me). Can anyone help?

Thank you for your advice, but I did that.... Perhaps 5 times with 2 step verification, 4 without. Finally I Tried changing incoming server to imap.googlemail.com as suggested elsewhere. It just started working within the last 3 minutes!!!!!!! I've been slaving over this computer for hours because of this. The outage may have started it, but seems something new took over. Who knows.

31.3.0 hangs when connecting to my IMAPS server (problem with intermediate certificates or SSL in general?).

After update to 31.3.0 Thunderbird hangs when connecting to IMAPS server aie.de (intermediate certificates in chain). No error message is given, Thunderbird just hangs with out updating the subject lines of the inbox.

It is a configuration problem of the courier imap ssl daemon, resolution is shown [http://xf.wiki.mithi.com/index.php/Error_observed_in_/var/log/messages_log,_imapd:_couriertls:_accept:_error:1408F10B:SSL_routines:SSL3_GET_RECORD:wrong_version_number#Resolution here]

Gmail server problem on macbook pro - os x

I keep getting a server delivery error on my gmail.
I receive emails but I have problem sending - especially emails with attachments, they do not even load !
My airport shows looking for networks so is it a network problem ?
Hotmail and all other web pages work fine the only problem is with gmail...
I checked on software updates and flash updates and all is updated.
Can anybody help ?
Thank you

The outgoing server for Gmail is "smtp.gmail.com" an you must override the default port to 465. You must use SSL to connect and must authenticate with your Gmail account and password.
If you have any more problems with your Gmail account, call back.
Clinton

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Problems with read/unread mail on IMAP server

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I'm having the strangest problem and I've yet to find a pattern or explanation for it. I retrieve all my mail from an IMAP server and store cached copies on my Mac. Sometimes after I've read a message, and Mail.app marks it as such, it will re-flag itself as unread after a number of minutes. Sometimes it's immediately, other times it's after several hours. It doesn't happen on all messages, just some, and seems to happen in at random in any of my IMAP folders. It's incredibly annoying. Has anyone else had this happen or do you know how to fix it? It doesn't seem to happen with other MUAs, just Mail.app. Thank you!

I brought this up with Apple and Mirapoint (the providers of our mail server infrastructure) a year and a half ago when I was running 10.3.4. The discussions ended up to a difference of opinion between the two companies concerning the IMAP spec. This has always been a issue with Mail.app ever since I can remember from back in the 10.0 days up until at least 10.4.4.
I will post the tail end of the discussion with the names removed to protect the innocent. I will admit that alot of this stuff is over my head. I also don't know how this applies to other mail servers. I don't think any other IMAP clients that I know of exhibit this read/unread state issue.
FROM APPLE:
Thanks for your patience on this escalation. A Mail.app engineer has reviewed the logs you sent in and determined that the Mirapoint server is returning the wrong response.
Specifically, in return to SELECT their server is returning:
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk Forwarded JunkRecorded)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk Forwarded JunkRecorded \*)]
* 11 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1057775569]
3 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
They are using the PERMANENTFLAGS response for session-based IMAP flags, which unfortunately does not abide by the IMAP spec. The engineer has agreed that Mail.app could likely do a better job handling session-based flags but concurrently Mirapoint needs to rev their software to return the appropriate response as per the IMAP spec.
MIRAPOINT'S RESPONSE:
I went through the spec (RFC 2060) and found the following...
IMAP server can allow a client to create permanent flags that can be stored:
Under Section 2.3.2. Flags Message Attribute
A keyword is defined by the server implementation. Keywords do not begin with "\". Servers MAY permit the client to define new keywords in the mailbox (see the description of the PERMANENTFLAGS response code for more information).
Also,
Under Section 6.3.1. SELECT Command
If the client can not change the permanent state of one or more of the flags listed in the FLAGS untagged response, the server SHOULD send a PERMANENTFLAGS response code in an OK untagged response, listing the flags that the client can change permanently.
Also,
Under Section 7.1 Server Responses - Status Responses....
PERMANENTFLAGS Followed by a parenthesized list of flags, indicates which of the known flags that the client can change permanently. Any flags that are in the FLAGS untagged response, but not the PERMANENTFLAGS list, can not be set permanently. If the client attempts to STORE a flag that is not in the PERMANENTFLAGS list, the server will either reject it with a NO reply or store the state for the remainder of the current session only. The PERMANENTFLAGS list can also include the special flag \*, which indicates that it is possible to create new keywords by attempting to store those flags in the mailbox.
Now, referring to the earlier IMAP session (over telnet ) that I had you do:
. select inbox
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk JunkRecorded Forwarded)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen NotJunk Junk JunkRecorded Forwarded \*)]
* 12 EXISTS
* 2 RECENT
* OK [UNSEEN 11]
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1056569562]
. OK [READ-WRITE] Completed
. fetch 1:* flags
* 1 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 2 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen NotJunk))
* 3 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen NotJunk))
* 4 FETCH (FLAGS (\Answered \Seen Forwarded))
* 5 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 6 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 7 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 8 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 9 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 10 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen))
* 11 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))
* 12 FETCH (FLAGS (\Recent))
. OK Completed
As you can see above, "NotJunk", "Forwarded" are the PERMANENTFLAGS defined and stored by Mail.App client, not the session specific flags. According to the snippets that quoted above from the IMAP specs, I think Mirapoint is correct in its PERMANENTFLAGS response.

IPad not using Sent, Trash folders of IMAP server

The iPad 1 is running iOS 5.1.1. I have created an IMAP mail account and in Mailbox Behaviors have mapped Drafts on the iPad to Entwürfe on the server, Sent on the iPad to Gesendete Objekte on the server, and Deleted on the iPad to Papierkorb on the server. When I send mail from this account it does not appear in Sent. Using a Web mail client I can verify that it does not appear in Gesendete Objekte either. I have the same problem when I delete mail from this account on the iPad: the mail does not appear in Trash (on the iPad) or Papierkorb (on the server).
I have setup the account on an iPhone 4S, and the same problems occur there. On an MacBook Pro running OS X 10.7.4 I have also setup an IMAP account for the same server and have performed tha same mapping of the Mail folders to the server's. There, everything works as expected. When I send a mail from that account on the Mac, it appears in Sent, Gesendete Objekte and in Sent on the iPad and iPhone. Similarly, when a mail is deleted from the account on the Mac, it appears in Trash, Papierkorb, and Trash on the two iOS devices.
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OK, I have found the problem. One of the mail accounts, for vtx.ch (formerly tiscali.ch), was configured to get mail from vtx's POP server, but to send it from my domain's SMTP server. For some reason, mail that was sent from my domain's mail server was being put in the local Sent folder of the vtx account. The same was true of Trash, Junk, and Drafts. I was able to fix this by deleting the vtx POP account and creating an IMAP account instead. I could map the folders of the vtx IMAP server to the right ones on the iPad and specify my domain's SMTP server for outgoing mail. Everything now works as expected. In particular, if I forward a mail from the vtx Inbox, it is sent using my domain's SMTP server, but appears in the Sent folder of the vtx account, while doing the same thing with a mail in the Inbox of the account corresponding to my domain's email server causes the mail to appear in its Sent folder.
I suspect this is a bug due to an oversight on Apple's part, as usually every email service has its own servers. The vtx SMTP server doesn't allow me to send mail from outside the vtx domain, i.e., I can only send mail from its Webmail interface using vtx's SMTP server. That's why I have to use another SMTP server to send from outside vtx.
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Can access mail on home IMAP server from work, but not at home

At home I have an Xserve running Snow Leopard Server with IMAP service enabled. This runs all my personal email. Even Gmail and iCloud accounts have their incoming mail forwarded to that server, because I prefer to house my own data. I have dynamic DNS with an MX record. The Xserve also runs DNS and resolves "imap.myip.net" to the internal IP address of the Xserve, and, when I am and work, "imap.myip.net," through the dynamic DNS service, resolves to the outside IP address I have through my ISP. My router forwards external requests on Port 993 to the Xserve internally.
Until recently, I could move my MacBook Pro between home and work and access my email without problems in either place. It appears that since the 10.8.2 update, I can no longer access my email from home, where I am on the same subnet as my IMAP server. When at home, Mail accesses external email servers (Gmail and my work account) without problems. For the accounts on my home IMAP server, the Mail Connection Doctor states that the IMAP server could not be contacted.
However, I can clearly ping it from my MacBook Pro, which means that it is reachable and that my internal DNS is working.
I just fired up my work VPN, and, sure enough, messages that Mail hadn't been able to collect are trondling into my Inbox. In other words, when making Mail access my mail server through the Internet there is no problem.
Even before the Mountain Lion update I found that I had to relaunch Mail when I returned home from work, or Mail couldn't connect to the mail server. It seemed like Mail cached the resolved IP address it had gotten at work, which is the external IP address of my home network, and failed to re-resolved the address of the IMAP server once I woke up the computer, after getting back home. Quitting Mail and relaunching it did resolve that, but it was annoying.
I have never worked with Little Snitch, but it might provide some answers as to what Mail is attempting to do, when it is failing to access the server. Do any of you agree or recognize this issue and have a solution?

It looks like a simple reboot fixed the problem.
Mac OS X is, by and large, so stable that I don't even consider rebooting as a troubleshooting step. There have been a number of application glitch that required a quit and re-launch to fix them, but that didn't do the trick with Mail. Very possibly reconfiguring everything from scratch had something to do with the fix, but in a way that required it to be combined with a reboot.

Yahoo IMAP server - Rejected Password

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This is definitely an issue between Apple Mail (which, frankly, bytes anyway) and/or the keychain, but I didn't bother refreshing the keychain...I got another mail app and the problem disappeared. I get ALL my mail, with no problems and I even got Rules to work, which I never could in Apple Mail. Plus, there are a bunch of addons (I haven't tried any) that look pretty neat.
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There are plenty of other mail apps, all touted as 10 times better than Apple Mail (mainly because they work and Apple Mail doesn't). Sparrow is another one, although I never tried it, and it's only $9.95 USD: http://sparrowmailapp.com/mac.php
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Mail.app doesn't hava connection with imap server when changing network.

Ive got a strange problem after upgrading OSX from 10.6.8 to 10.8.4.
I have got a xserve, with osx 10.6.8. (mail) server installed on it.
When i am in the office (LAN) mail works just fine. if iam home and wake my macbook from sleeping i see in the mail app the attention mark telling my something is wrong with the mail account.
If i open the connection doctor it say's can't connect to IMAP server. if i check my iOS devices there is nothing wrong, everything is working and i can send/recieve mail. on iOS and OSX the settings are the same with SSL enabled and password type.
When i tried to telnet the mailserver address with the IMAP or SMTP port i get a connection. so, there is no firewall blokking my connection.
But now the strange thing when i quit my mail.app and start it again the mail gets connection again. So is there a problem when changing networks when the Mail.App is stil active?

That's just to bad, will it be solved in a future release of OSX?
I don't know... maybe Apple will force me migrating to Mavaricks.
it seems that although w'r using DNS, the outside ip gets remebered or the connection isn't closed down properly when putting the macbook to sleep.
I can try offcource to configure the outside LANip (Non dns) in my mail client.
I will post with results..

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I have mail set up on both my iPhone and MacBook Air. Everything works great with mail on the iPhone. However, periodically throughout the day, Mac Mail decides to stop connecting to the imap server. Quitting Mac Mail and restarting it corrects the problem. It continues working for awhile but then stops at what seems to be random times. It's quite frustrating.
Any ideas how to correct the problem on the MacBook Air.

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I get nothing but error messages, -"Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: 113 that mail is not available" or 364? there are hundreds stacked up.You must give answers to how to fix these when we do "search" add the error code number

I get nothing but error messages, -
"Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: 113 that mail is not available" or the same with: 364?
Now there are hundreds stacked up on my desktop.
I cannot find the answer anywhere. You need to give answers to how to fix these errors because when I "search" "error code" or the number there is NOTHING. NOTHING! Yet you give us these stupid error codes
then you do not give us ANYTHING on how to fix these. These error codes make me so mad it makes me hate outlook, and hate the developers and hate microsoft. How in the world can you give us ERROR codes without the explanation of what
to do or how to fix it. You need to add each error code number in your "search" then explain what it is and how to fix it. I am not a tech. I am a lawyer. I have googled the entire string of error code and nothing is clear.
So, for the last several years, I get these error codes. Also, there is another error code that won't go away--it is the password error code that asks if I want to store the password. Yes, so I say YES. but it pops back. I am sick of this. This is the reason
I hate Microsoft and I love google. #1 they respond to error, #2 them try to fix them you do not. I paid the full price to buy the OUtlook 2010, almost $500 just to get outlook, and all I got was error codes. I could not even open it because all I would get
was that error codes and NO ONE knew how to fix them. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM that you cannot fix the stupid error codes that you imbed? PLEASE HELP

Hi,
I understand how frustrated you are when facing such an issue, maybe I can provide some suggestions on the problem.
Based on the description, you should be using an IMAP account setup in Outlook. As for the error message, usually it's caused by a corrupted message on the Server. I suggest you logon the Webmail site, check if sending/receiving emails works well.
If you find any unusual emails that cannot be read or sent, try deleting them to try again.
I also suggest you create a new profile to setup the IMAP account:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us
Contact your Email Service Provider to get the correct and latest account settings, since you have been using Outlook for years, some settings may have been changed while you haven't been informed.
For the steps to setup an account in Outlook 2010, please refer to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/outlook-help/add-or-remove-an-email-account-HA010354414.aspx
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

No access to IMAP server in Mail after installing Yosemite.

Installed Yosemite on my I-mac and now cannot access email on SMTP IMAP server. Keep getting error messages. Black triangles with an exclamation mark appear beside account name in the mailbox. Spent 2 hrs. on the phone with my Internet Service Provider and got it to work, but as soon as I was off the phone it reverted back to same problem. Is there a mail problem in Yosemite?

try this - worked for me. read in another thread...
For those of you having email password issues, I'd suggest:
1) Close your mail client (i.e. Apple Mail, Thunderbird, Outlook, etc).
2) Launch "Applications" > "Utilities" > "Keychain Access.app"
3) Select "login" from the sidebar top left area, then select "Passwords" in lower left area
4) Click into the Search box in the upper right and search for your ISPs server names. For example, type "aol" or "google" or "comcast", etc.
5) Look through the search results for password entries related to your SMTP (outgoing) or IMAP/POP (incoming) mail servers. Select them and delete them.
6) Open your email client and try to receive mail, and then to send mail. You should be prompted to enter your mail username and/or password.
Hopefully this might fix issues for those of you using mail clients that use Keychain for credential storage.

Multiple clients with same account on a single IMAP server

Hi,
I am connecting to a IMAP server using same account but from 2 different machines. From one machine a mark a message as SEEN=FALSE. But on the second machine, the flag will still be TRUE.
Is there any way to co-ordinate between multiple clients so that all the clients are in sync.
Regards,
Nitin.

I was able to resolve the problem using addMessageCountListener and messagesAdded method, as suggested by you.
I am now facing another problem. Whenever a new message is received, code inside messagesAdded method gets executed. Here I am trying to spawn another thread and do some stuff. But this new thread is not starting at all. It goes into some JavaMail:EventQueue and does nothing. What is the concept of EventQueue here? How can I get this new thread executed?
Also will there be synchronization problems in messagesAdded method. Say I received a message and I am processing it in the messagesAdded method. In the mean time another message comes up. How will this behave.

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