Intermittent failure to send mail and/or save sent...
Several times now I have sent mail & got no record of the sent mail - no settings change, just mail server behaviour.... I have set Mac Mail up for IMAP and asked to store sent messages on the server. Most times it is fine, but occasionally fails to save the sent message, although the message is delivered to the recipient.
More worryingly, and on random occasions, my sent mail is not even delivered - with no failure notice. BTYahoo server seems to deliver (goes ok) but then simply ignores or loses the mail, even though it appears in my sent mail folder. Other times I get no record of sent mail. Mac Mail doesn't seem to have read receipts as an option, so of course the only way to find it hasn't been delivered is when I speak or email again and am told it didn't arrive. Turns out that it fails to be received by all recipients, not just one, so seems to be a BTYahoo issue, not another mail server in the WWW.
Has anyone else discovered that mails sent aren't being received or stored? Or have ideas why this might be happening?
Certainly isn't acceptable mail server behaviour....
Cheers
Andy
I've been having problems with my BT Yahoo mail since day 1 (July 9th). It nearly always fails to send the first time but then sends fine the second time I try. For about an hour this evening I wasn't able to send or receive at all because of a bunch of acronyms that the server had stopped supporting.
I have no idea what's wrong or how to fix it. I just figured you'd like to know you're not alone.
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(3) What happens when you attempt to send Mail in the activity pane? Click, (at top of screen) Window, then Activity pane before the panic occurs?
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Following this article is advised:
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