Lion email trouble??

Just bought a new mac mini with 10.7 Lion. I am using the email that came with the OS but for some reason the emails in my inbox are delayed anywhere from 10 minutes up to 2-3 hours.  I can go to my charter account and see the new messages but they do not show up in my apple mail inbox for sometime.  I have gone into the prefences and changed the "receive emails" to every 1 minute but they are still delayed.  Any ideas??

Couple more things I've noticed.  If I click around on some of the different folders like sent or trash or junk mail, sometimes the emails will suddenly start loading into the inbox and there they are.  If I go to the Charter email and see some new emails, then go back to my Mac mailbox and do the "click around " thing, if they don't come in I can quit my mac email and restart it and there they are.  It's fairly frustrating to have to "click" around or shut down my email in order to get my emails. 
Still no ideas???

Similar Messages

  • Mountain Lion email

    Is anyone having trouble with Mountain lion email? I can receive but not send messages.

    Regarding not being able to send emails with Mountain Lion, this might help - courtesy of those magnificent teccies at o2.
    Go to mail - preferences - account info - outgoing mail server - select EDIT SMTP list - select Advanced - select use custom port - type 25 into box and click ok. 
    Thia worked a treat for me.
    o2  reckon Apple are well aware of the email problem and are working on fixing it. The sooner the better I say!

  • Lion email does not work with Verizon FIOS - Eudora does

    Recently I have not been able to send email using my Verizon outgoing server on the Lion email client. I can receive OK, but the server keeps rejecting something and a window pops up asking me to select a different SMTP server.
    Before I called Verizon, I decided to see if there were any free eMail clients I could use as a test and the new Eudora showed up when I did a "Bing" search.
    I just installed Eudora and after a very quick setup, I sent a message using the Verizon server without any problem, the mail coming into both the Eudora and Lion mailboxes.
    So the problem is not with Lion, but with the Lion eMail client. I know Verizon does not officially support Macs, but since Eudora works, I have localized the issue to the standard Lion email client.
    Anyone else have a similar experience with Verizon or some other ISP in not being able to send eMail?
    First, Eudora is an answer. Second - I would like to resolve the problem with the Lion eMail client - it must be some obscure server setting. I know that it used to work, but I am not sure whether it was with Lion or Snow Leopard. Usually when I send an eMail, I use Cloud and was using MobileMe so I did not notice whether or not Verizon's SMTP server was working.
    I noticed it today when I could not reply to an eMail that came in on one of my Verizon accounts.
    Here is the Eudora URL
    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Eudora_Releases
    Click Mac Disk Image and voila! there you go.
    (works for me)

    Thunderbird might work, but as long as Eudora is working I am happy.
    The built in client used to work with Verizon which is what puzzles me.
    I think you are right, the MacMail app is primarily for cloud these days.

  • Have installed MacOsX Lion has trouble hooking up to my StoraNas server with my usual username and password, some who can help me?

    Have installed MacOsX Lion has trouble hooking up to my StoraNas server with my usual username and password, some who can help me?

    This is a common problam discussed on the Netgear forums.  I have yet to see a solution, just comments that there will need to be a fix from Netgear.  if anyone has heard of a solution or of the update being issued, please let us know.

  • Can anyone tell me how to turn off message preview in Lion email? Thank you

    Can anyone tell me how to turn off the message preview in Lion email so that I only have the person's name and the subject line of the email, not the text body.
    thank you for your help.

    First goto preferences
    then click on viewing in the top bar
    then where it says list preview click the drop down then click none
    Hope this helps 

  • Lion email with *.pct attachments causing mail to hang

    Hey all -
    Though this was not and still is not an issue for mail under Snow Leopard, it seems that messages that have a *.pct (Macs PICT format for images using Apple Quick Draw apparently) are causing Lion Mail to go off to obilvion - leaving no option but for a force quit.  
    What's also a pain is that since Lion Mail folds notes together, a conversation that was fine is now corrupted upon the receipt of a note with the blated *.pct file.
    Under Snow Leopard on a Mac Book Pro I find no issue opening these messages or even the file itself, let alone saving it or doing most other things that I have tried.   But sending this file to the Lion Email causes a serious issue as soon as I try and open that note on the Lion Mac Pro.
    As it is not easy to tell what file types may or may not be attached till you see them, this is sort of like Russion Roulet email.   When the system hangs I have now learned to bring up mail on another system - even an iPad or iPhone seems ok with this - where I can read the note, save the file or otherwise clear the problem.
    Because Lion want to be extra friendly and restart from where it was - I have run into the issue where it hangs on a note and then after Force Quitting it immediately leaps back onto the same problematic note - thus the need for some other system to move the note elsewhere or delete it.
    Working with different *.pct files doesn't seem to matter - those that I have tried have all caused the Lion mail to hang.  Notes have of course been sent to Apple, but thus far crickets....
    Wondering if anyone here has found a solution for this.  I am guessing that *.PCT files are going to be an issue for Preview too under Lion, but actually have not tried that yet.
    Cheers

    Hi, as far as I can tell, that log doesn' help, just tells us Mail crashed, and is far too long to really peruse.
    Could be many things, we should start with this...
    "Try Disk Utility
    1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
    2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
    *Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
    3. Click the First Aid tab.
    4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
    5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
    http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
    Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
    (Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
    If perchance you can't find your install Disc, at least try it from the Safe Boot part onward.
    Open Mail>highlight the Mailbox it is in, from the Mailbox menu, choode rebuild... any change?

  • Mail (Mountain Lion) emails disappear - vanishing email - missing emails

    Problem:
    I have 5 different email addresses configured in Apple's Mail application. One day after checking Mail several times through a day, I open Mail and all 5 email accounts show empty inboxes and outboxes. I was shocked and in panic mode because I have thousands of emails going back to 2012 I needed to refer to.  
    My setup:
    (I'm sure this issue is not limited to my setup)
    15" Mid 2010 i7 MacBook Pro, running OS Mountain Lion 10.8.5, Mail version 6.6
    My search for an answer:
    I've been Mac since the early 90's & I knew finding a solution from apples website would be a ton of work because of Apples mind numbingly pathetic search support.
    So I used "the google" to help me.
    I found a long history of disappearing issues with Mail since Mountain Lion's introduction.
    With that long history, the fixes were many.
    I tried two of them:
    1- Mails Mailbox pulldown window Rebuild.
    2- "home" folders now hidden "Library" remove Mail and Mail Downloads folders..
    Neither solution worked for me.
    After a lot of time on the google I found help.
    Solution:
    I found a solution and I'm posting it here in hopes that others find it faster then I did here:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11704
    In steps:
    Mail should not be open, if it is quit Mail.
    1 - On your mac, go yo your "Home" folder.
    Details for finding this folder:
    It is the folder icon that looks like a little house.
    A simple way to get there:
    With all apps and windows closed, at the top of your monitor, far left, is the Apple icon, next to that is the word "Finder", go right and click on the word "Go", in that drop down menu/window click on "Home"
    2 - Open "Library" folder in "Home" folder.
    Details for finding this folder:
    It is a folder that starting with Lion is now invisable/hidden from your view. So you first have to make it visable/unhide it.
    A simple way to get there:
    As listed above, at the top of your monitor, far left, is the Apple icon, next to that is the word "Finder", go right and click on the word "Go", in that drop down menu/window now click on "Go to Folder". That will open a window with a box for you to type. In the box type "~/Library" ... more help...  the ~ key can be found in the upper left corner of your keyboard just under the esc key. Press the shift key then the `~ key.
    3 - Open "Mail", then "V2" then "MailData" inside that folder delete any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm.
    Details for finding the items to delete/trash/put in recycle bin and empty:
    Inside your now unhidden "Home" "Library" folder, open the "Mail" folder, inside that folder open "V2" folder, inside that folder open "MailData" folder, inside that folder look for any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm. and throw them in the trash and delete/empty trash.
    4 - last step. Open mail.
    It should open with a window "Mail message Import" click on "next" it will prosess/make a new list of your existing emails (more emails will take more time) and you should be back in business.

    Thomas A Reed wrote:
    Yes I am and for good reason.
    You have never elaborated on those reasons.
    Have you ever looked at all the posts on these forums about Mac Mail? More then for any other Mail program on any other forum
    You should know better than to extrapolate conclusions from such questionable sources. Data on troubleshooting forums is always biased towards trouble, so you have no data about the ratio of people having trouble to people not having trouble. Further, comparing to other forums is similarly meaningless. Mail is the default e-mail client on the Mac, and will have a much higher portion of the market share than Thunderbird. So of course it will have more complaints, because more people are using it.
    If you have concrete reasons to constantly bash Mail, rather than hearsay and unscientific "data," I'm all ears.
    Don't waste your time Tom, this Shootist guy is not actually capable of answering anything put to him, eg: see below.
    Shootist007 wrote:
    Right whatever.
    EDIT:
    There goes the "Mac's, They Just Work" idea.

  • When I send an email with a photo from snow leopard to email of a lion user, the photo shows up in the Lion email sideways. When they email it back it returns to correct position. Is there something in Lion causing this?

    When I send an email via MACMAIL  with a photo from snow leopard to  an email of a lion user using At & T , the photo shows up in the Lion user email sideways. When they email it back it returns to correct position. Is there something in Lion causing this? This also happens when in in using iphoto'11 i share/email a photo to myself and the phot shows up sideways but is in a correct position prior to emailing.

    I recently tried sending myself an email through Thunderbird to another email account to see if that was the case, but the email came in with a font so tiny that it was unreadable. I had chosen a font type and size (arial 10) and just coming into my outlook inbox was virtually unreadable.
    And referring to the person I work with, she doesn't have problems getting anyone else's emails, just ones I send from Thunderbird.

  • Mountain Lion Email doesn't work even with 10.8.1 update!

    My mail application completely failed shortly after the upgrade to Mountain Lion. None of the user advice has repaired it from these forums, so I have now resigned myself to using my ipad and iphone to conduct all my business emails. I was hopeful that this first 10.8.1 update from Apple would restore the my mail application. I can frustratingly report that no, it certainly hasn't. No change in fact. I click on the mail app and the beachball of death continues for about 5 minutes then it comes up with a message 'there is a problem with your mailboxes' with the option to quit or quit and rebuild index. If I choose that latter, the beachball resumes it's rotation forever or until I hard reset the machine as all other programs crash at this point. Apple, please help FAST, this is no way to run a business!!!!

    Agreed, but I think that for most Mail seems to be working fine. There don't seem to many posts complaining about Mail problems - well no more than usual.
    Have you tried a Safe Boot which sometimes helps in solving odd problems. and if that doesn't help, re-installing the OS using the Recovery HD?
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
    For a Safe Boot restart holding down the shift key until you see a grey progress bar. Once booted restart as normal from the Apple menu.

  • MAC OS X Lion downloading Trouble.

    Im having trouble installing OS X Lion, my internet connection is working properly. Apple starts downloading the app, but it only gets to 10 MB/4GB, and stops and restarts download from 0. It repeats this process for 5 times. At last shows me and internet connection problem. But it works properly.

    This answers the question for Lion users
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3891253?start=0&tstart=0

  • After loading lion email bodies disappear in old mail folders

    Older exchange based mail folders show only headers but no content in mail...

    Ernie,
    thanks for the links.
    I'm not sure which mail version I was using, it was under 10.3.(the latest version)
    I compared the mail files on my laptop to the mail files on my desktop.
    It seems that I'm in trouble.
    Using the "INBOX.mbox" as an example, in my laptop files there is a folder called "messages" and inside there are xxx.emix files. On my desktop in the "INBOX.mbox" the "messages" folder is missing. This is the case for all the mail folders saved from the old OS. There are no xxx.emix files to be found.
    Fortunately I have most of my received emails backed up also on the laptop.
    I'm guessing I can import those. I'll just be missing all my sent emails from the desktop.
    The main glitch that occured when installing Tiger is that the 10.4.7 upgrade caused my desktop to not start up past the spinning cog screen. I then re-booted from the install disk and used the utility app to copy the info from the main hard drive to a secondary drive. I did this after the initial 10.4.0 install. I'm guessing that something did not make the transfer? I had to do a clean install to get the computer to work. I hope this makes sense.

  • OSX Mountain Lion Email APP

       I have a problem with ny retina macbook pro I updated to OSX mountain Lion after update the EMAIL APP in the area when you see the new emails if you scroll up or down begins to see deteriorate like garbage then I made a click in that area and the garbage dissapear and I can see the list of emails but is so bad because if I scroll down to see old emails I can´t see nothing because I see garbage and that garbage disappear when I make a click making useless this problem the email app. Any suggestion on how to fix that issue?
       Note: Is just the problem with email app other apps and whole system are running perfect.
      Than you

    I solved doing from that link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4145777?start=0&tstart=0
    this:
    1. Bring up System Preferences, go to iCloud and uncheck "Contacts"
    2. You need to remove the folder /Users/<your_name>/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
              If you have issues removing, quit Mail and Contacts
              If you don't have contacts in iCloud, try renaming the folder
    3. Reboot the machine
    4. Bring up System Preferences, go to iCloud and now check "Contacts"
    Now when you bring up Contacts, it should sync with iCloud, Mail and Messages will work fine.
    Then:
    After trying everything listed in this thread without succes, deleting the following finally solved my problem:
    ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
    ~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
    This solved the issue.
    Thank you anyway

  • Mountin Lion has trouble with external monitors

    Not so much a question as a shout-out. Since going to Mountain Lion, my pretty new (February this year) MacBook has been having no end of trouble with external monitors. I use it a lot with the clamshell closed with two different external monitors of two different sizes, one at home, one at work. It sometimes thinks the one is the other, or if I unplug the monitor in sleep, when I later open the clamshell, the screen stays black and I have to force a reboot with the power button. Never had these problems with exactly the same set-up in Lion. Sometimes it also refuses to find a connected monitor or projector, I have to pull the dangle and put it in again.

    If memory serves, one of the 'flaws' with BM's hardware is that it will not convert on-the-fly.  So if your sequence doesn't match what the TV is accepting, you get black.
    For example, my TV will not accept 1080p, only 1080i, so working in a 1080p sequence would produce no image for me as the BM will only output exactly what's in the sequence, it can't convert my 1080p/24 sequence into 1080i/30 for output.
    Now I'd expect your TV would have no trouble accepting a 720p signal but, maybe the above data will lead you down a path of investigation.

  • Mail in Lion - Emails Get Stuck in Outbox

    I just got a brand new MacbookAIr with Lion preinstalled.  I have three different email accounts (Exchange, MobileMe and Gmail).  When I send an email, from any of the three accounts, it gets stuck in the Outbox for an extended period of time.  By closing and reopening Mail, or by deleted and resending the email, eventually it will get sent, but this is crazy.
    I called APL-CARE yesterday and the told me because I was in a hotel, the hotel may be blocking some ports.  Sounds hard to believe, especially because the mail eventually goes out.  Today I am in a different hotel (different chain, etc.) and am having the exact same problem.  This can not be a policy of hotels these days, can it?
    Has anyone else had this issue with Lion?  I had been using Mail with these three accounts on Snow for a long time and its worked fine - never an issue.
    I hope I'm not the only one with this issue.
    David

    Hi,
    Thanks for Diane's suggestion. If it still doesn't work, I suggest you post the question in Office for Mac forum to get more specific support:
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac
    The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
    Regards,
    Melon Chen
    TechNet Community Support
    It's recommended to download and install
    Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
    programs.

  • Email trouble with iPhone4 and iPhone6

    I am having trouble forwarding emails or responding to emails when trying to add a new email address to the thread. When I start to type in the new email address, email automatically shuts down and I'm am sent back to the home screen on my phone.  It only happens when the first letter of the email address I type in is the letters d, l, m, p, or r.   The exact same thing happened on my iphone4 and is now happening on my iphone6.  Is it an issue with my email account or a software issue?

    It's an issue that happens occasionally with the Verizon/Yahoo accounts, and has nothing to do with your software/hardware.
    If you have your username without the @verizon.net, try adding it. If you do have it already, try taking it off.
    If a forum member gives an answer you like, give them the Kudos they deserve. If a member gives you the answer to your question, mark the answer as Accepted Solution so others can see the solution to the problem.
    "All knowledge is worth having."

Maybe you are looking for