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Hello, I've read and read and searched and seached. Having an issue with numerous requests for mail password and mail not sending or receiving most of the time. Not connecting to mail servers. I've not changed a thing abd have even set up a new mail account with mail assistant. The strange thing is if I leave mail open and connect to Yahoo via the internet and sign in to the Yahoo mail then all of a suddden Mac Mail with start working.....like it takes that maneuver to get Mac Mail to connect to the servers. My original Mac Mail was set up as POP and it worked great for years. When I set up a new account last night it set itself up as IMAP but both are having the same problem, One with the lightening bolt and the other with what looks like a lock.
My iPhone mail works with no problem and it usually gets the mail first. I've done everything I can think og with the exception of deleting the passwords in keychain. But I've checked them in Keychain and they are the right passwords. I'm thinking AT&T / Pacbell / Yahoo must be having some kind of server connection problem but it's getting irratating whatching the bouncing mac mail icon.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
I'm running 10.8.2 OSX and Mac mail is 6.1
Thanks,
bgoodz

Well, tried all different types of settings recommended and still nothing until I sign in at Yahoo mail via the internet and then "send/receive" in mac mail and the server connection happens. Don't know why this is but once you make the connection to mail over the internet then mac mail works but if you don't connect over the internet then mac mail won't connect to the Yahoo/ ATT/ Pacbell servers.
This all started out of the blue recently and the only thing I can think of is the upgrade to ML and any new Mac updates recently done. It could be a sleep thing also as everything works until I check it the next morning after the system went to sleep and no mail server connection.

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(Mac Mail) How to obtain Yahoo! Mail when: You're inbox dissapears or does not show after all settings seem perfectly in place.

Hello everyone!
Note**: I am in no way attempting to illustrate how to get FREE email listing from Yahoo! Mail, I am only reciting what I have stumbled upon. I do not know if Yahoo! actually wants this to work in Mail. but it does, so if they didn't want it to work they will patch it or something. I recommend that you take advantage of their paid service(annual) which allows POP forwarding of emails quickly and withou any need for reconfiguration.
I hope this "fix" is not being rementioned or creates redundancy, however after hours of searching all sorts of foums(including the Apple forums ofcourse) I was unable to find a true fix. Simply put, I just got a brand new Macbook Air 13'' for Christmas 2011. I also bought a Macbook Pro 15'' back in late 2010. I was never able to get Yahoo! Mail configured even through methods of IMAP rather than POP or POP3. Oddly enough, on my Macbook Air and Pro, now, when I try to redo the Yahoo! settings, my Inbox would display messages for a matter of seconds and then the messages would dissapear. However, there was still a number next to my Yahoo! e-mail, accurately indicating how many unread messages I had. I fixed it like so:
1) Go to www.yahoo.com-- Configure Yahoo! account via account settings to work off of IMAP rather than POP Forwarding. Do so by going into account options on the top right or left hand of your screen and clicking through the forwarding options until you see IMAP. Make sure you save your new settings! This is very simple and I feel requires no further explanation. If you become confused, let me know and I will go into detail then.
2) Once your Yahoo! Mail account is IMAP simply go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File. Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the "+" sign as opposed to the "-" sign you will see there. This will allow you to setup an account or additional accounts. A window then will appear with options:
3) ****Make sure you ARE connected to the internet wirelessly or via ethernet for this part!****
---------- Full Name: (Enter Full Name Here)
---------- Email Address: (Type in full email address, e.g.: [email protected])
---------- Password: (Type in your password to your email account, this IS CASE SENSITIVE.)
4) Now! Listen! (lol), hit create and let the mac show you the settings it has pinged back from the Yahoo! mail server. It should illustrate that your e-mail is an IMAP based email address etc. As long as the account is created with the IMAP configuration and Mail reads it as so, you have succeeded thus far.
5) Critial Step here: Go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File. Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the Yahoo! IMAP account. Close to the top of that page between the different Mail options and the account settings you will see three different bar pages: a) Account Information, b) Mailbox Behaviors and c) Advanced.
6) Click on the Advanced tab. Do not touch anything on this page, except, IMAP Path Prefix. This is located in the middle of the Advanced page screen right above Port, where you will see |Port: 993 (Box IS checked for: USE SSL). In that IMAP Patch Prefix type the name of your Inbox(I say this because some people rename it in Yahoo!). Mine is simply "Inbox" so my configuration in Mail looks like so: | Imap Path Prefix: Inbox |. After this, click on "General" or attempt to close the Mail options window and it will as you to save the new setting. Ofcourse, hit yes and click the Get Mail envelope and you will see your Inbox populate, assuming you have new mail.
What this means: Test your OUTGOING mail server by sending yourself an e-mail either from your Yahoo! Mail or from another email. Thus, this will allow you tot est your INCOMING email as was now reconfigured to IMAP by seeing if you actually receive the email.
Reason for doing so in this sequence: By letting Mail create the account it will properly import all of your mail folders you have in your Yahoo! Mail account. Obviously, your Inbox and Outbox as well as Sent and Trash folders will import but I have additional folders, for example, that also imported for putting financials or receipts into different folders for organization. Once these are populated naturally, by changing the IMAP Path Prefix you're telling the Mail application where to send your new emails. Atleast this is my understanding of it.
Unfortuntely, I am not an officially educated 'techie", however, I have been fiddling with computers over the last 20 years and have been training myself to become Apple expert, seing as I have decided to completely convert to Apple products. Apple is just reliable. This, to me, is priceless. I truly hope I have helped you and that I have saved hours of Youtube video watching as well as forum searching for many. Should you have any questions, FEEL FREE to ask! I love helping others, hense why I have made this post(my first Apple post). Happy Holidays everyone and enjoy!

dechamp wrote:
What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
The Yahoo server did exactly what you Mail program told it to do.
Mail/Preferences/Account/Advanced - This setting is adjustable for each mail account.
I didn't know about this feature until it was too late. I have already unchecked it for future emails.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
Not Really, you could forward them to your account, after you've told your mail program not to delete the emails at all, but they will show up as being from you instead of the original sender. The originals at Yahoo have been dumped and probably purged. It would take an IT manager at Yahoo to manually replace the emails, not much chance of that.
I've already asked yahoo to "restore" my inbox to a day ago. That should help me with retrieving some of the messages back, I hope.
Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
The sync feature refers to IMAP email accounts like .Mac or .Me or an Imap gmail account. I didn't think Yahoo offered IMAP email accounts.
Apple's MobileMe membership will let you sync your Mail, AddressBook, Calender, personal website with iWeb, etc.
"MobileMe is a service that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync."
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
I wanted to use Mac Mail, see if I liked it or not, then decide to get a MobileMe account. However, this is still a side note, since my yahoo account is my main email client.
You seem to be very well informed, and I was wondering if I can ask you to clarify a point for me. Do you know how to archive the inbox in the Mac Mail?
And thank you for answering my queries.

Why won't Mac Mail receive messages from Yahoo?

I use Mac Mail as an IMAP on both my MBA (OS X 10.6.2) and MBP (OS X 10.6.8). My MBA also syncs with my Dad's MobileMe account. About 4 weeks ago my MBA spontaneously stopped receiving mail from my Yahoo account (and sending...sometimes). It thinks a lot and sometimes even shows me it's about to start downloading emails but it doesn't follow through and they never show up in the inbox. The sound for no mail goes off when it finally finishes thinking. Now my MBP stopped receiving mail today as well - same symptoms. (My Dad's MobileMe is the only email account still working.) I can see the new emails on the server and my BlackBerry so my guess is that it's a Mac Mail problem. What gives? How do I fix?

Pressed "Rebuild" and nothing happened.
Did you have that account highlighted?
Well, don't know much about Mail in 10.7, but here's my 10.4/10.5 notes...
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

Mac mail stopped working with Yahoo! mail

Last month my mac mail app stopped downloading any of the normal mail from my frontier.com mail account hosted by Yahoo!
All I see is Apple mail coming in occasionally. This is beyond strange and it looks like a problem specific to Mac Mail as Thunderbird downloads everything using the same settings.
Has anyone else run into this with Frontier? Please help!

Sometimes this issue is caused by a misconfiguration or incompatibility of the Exchange server, or perhaps by a bug in Mail. If so, you won't be able to resolve it yourself. The fact that your iOS devices may be working well with the same account isn't relevant, because iOS uses a completely different protocol (ActiveSync) to communicate with Exchange servers. By default, OS X Mail uses the EWS protocol.
Each of the following steps has been reported to help, at least temporarily, in some cases (not all):
1. Back up all data. Open the Internet Accounts pane in System Preferences and check to make sure you don't have duplicate Exchange accounts. If you do, delete all but one of the duplicates. If there are no duplicates, delete the account and recreate it with the same settings.
2. Rebuild the affected mailbox.
3. Reindex messages.
4. Follow the instructions in this support article to disable autodiscovery. You may need to get configuration details from the server administrator.
5. In the Keychain Access application, delete the password item for the account. The next time Mail tries to access the account, you'll be prompted for the password. Check the box to save it in the Keychain.
6. If you've created subfolders of the Exchange inbox, log in to the server through its web interface, move the messages out, and remove the subfolders. The inbox should have no subfolders.
7. Synchronize with the server using IMAP rather than EWS. This is only possible if IMAP is enabled on the server.
8. Consider using Outlook instead of Mail to access your Exchange mail. It uses yet another proprietary protocol (MAPI) that isn't available to other mail clients.
See also this discussion.

Can I sync Mac mail w/iphone and Yahoo mail?

I'm used to checking my Yahoo mail on my Mac using the mail program (not Mobile Me). Now that I've got an iPhone it checks it on Yahoo mail and uses Yahoo mail folders. I've got lots of stuff stored on my Mac in mail folders and still prefer to check my mail there. When I send a mailnote from my Mac it, obviously, doesn't show up in my sent mail in Yahoo. Is there a way to sync all of this? I really prefer the Mac mail interface than Yahoo's web browser interface. Also, the filters (a.k.a. rules) work way better in Mail.
Thoughts or am I missing something?
Thanks.
-Robin

Robin,
iTunes will sync the email account settings to the iPhone, not the actual emails and folders.
When you setup the account on the iPhone, by tapping Add Account> Yahoo!> entering you account info, it is setup as a IMAP account.
Heres a thread discussing not being able to setup up a Yahoo! IMAP account on a Mac or PC: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1020969
You can contact Yahoo! support here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/
Also you can workaround the issue by setting up a MobileMe or Gmail IMAP account.
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Mac Mail turned all my Yahoo mail accounts inactive and I can't restore them. Please help!

I was using mac mail this morning with my 2 yahoo email accounts. Out of nowhere the accounts went inactive. When I went to the mail settings and tried to restore the email by clicking the mail check box nothing happen. I can still send and receive mail on my phone but the mac mail program is another story. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Mac mail 4.5 and yahoo mail

Anyone else having problems with mac mail 4.5 and sending mail with yahoo.mail server. Mine is so erratic It's driving me crazy. It works fine for a while then all of sudden it will just stop working for days at a time. This happens without me changing any settings whatsoever. I have other mail programs using the same servers AND THEY WORK FINE. So this is total crap. When I try getting help from my ISP they said it is a mac mail problem. When I try to get help from APPLE (which is pretty much non existant) they say its an ISP problem. The only thing I know is that its' my problem and I've given both these companies tons of money and they've left me hanging out in the breeze with arguably the most basic and important funciton of having a computer and an internet connection. Screw them all I say.
Anyone out there to help with this quandry. By the way I've used mail connection doctor. It has problem connecting to the outgoing server, but then it does and says all is fine. But I still cant send mail. I go back to connecton doctor and do a "check again" and now it CANT connect. Jeez this is just awful

I finally got my "Send" to work:
Mac Mail Version 4.5 (1084) Settings for YahooPlus email accounts:
In your Yahoo account:
Before setting up Mac Mail, check that you have:
     Subscribed to Yahoo! Mail Plus
     Enabled POP
In Mac Mail:
Preferences > Accounts >
     Select your Yahoo account.
Account Information tab:
     Incoming Mail Server: plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com
Advanced tab:
     Port: 995
     Select: Use SSL
Account Information tab: > Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP)
     Click on the up/down arrow and select Edit SMTP Server List
     Select your Yahoo account
     Select the Account Information tab
          Server Name: plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
      Select Advanced tab:
          Port: Use default ports (25, 465, 587)   [Or you can also select Use Custom Port: 465]
          Select Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
          Click OK
     Close Preferences (Save settings when prompted)
The information was extracted from
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/ymail/mailplus/pop/pop-30.html;_ylt=Akicod 1myG2IJofQmUDz9qdfPnpG

Mac Mail not sending my yahoo emails

Since yesterday, my Mac Mail will not send emails out for my Yahoo smtp email address. This has been set up for almost two years and I did not change anything. I am still receiving my email fine! I'm not getting the normal relay error message I sometimes get with other email accounts. It just sits in outgoing for hours!
Can anyone help me?

Try opening up a terminal window and telnet to the smtp server's port 25. If that doesn't work, there is probably some firewall issue or you might have mistypyed the name of the smtp server.
The telnet command would look something like ...
telnet smtp_server 25
If you get a response from the SMTP server, check with your ISP's tech support to verify that you are connecting properly.

Mac mail keeps rejecting my yahoo password

This problem has happened to me twice now.
I have my yahoo email account set up in my mac Mail. Recently I keep getting this message saying that Yahoo.ca IMAP server "imap.mail.yahoo.com" rejected the password.
My password is all correct and I checked "Remeber this password in my keychain" but it still doesn't work. This message keeps poping out everytime no matter whether Yahoo is trying to receive new emails or not.
I originally thought it was a probelm from Yahoo, and I had emailed them this problem, and they said they had solved this issue from their end even though I kept telling them my password is still not accepted. The strange thing is that I think I could still send and receive emails (although not sure if I am receiving all the emails since the message kept poping out and that my yahoo keeps on going processing mode and then in the end a triangle with exclamation mark just appeared)
Another strange thing is that I have another Yahoo account on my Mail, yet this one never had simialr problem like this before. It is alsways this particular account I have that is having this problem.
I tried changing my password, logging in Yahoo from their website making sure the POP setting has checked. Still didn't solve my problem
I have tried going into my keychain to verify and repair my password from Keychain First Aid. But no problem was found.
I have also tried deleting my account from Mai Preference and re-added back on, still doesn't work.
The first time this problem had happened to this account, I ended up deleting it from Mail and added back on and it seemed to work, however this time nothing seems to be working.
Please help me!
Thank you.

Hey I also have this problem, but I think I might have diagnosed the problem (temporarily at least).
I realized that ever since I started using the Mail app, I rarely logged in to my actual Yahoo account. When I logged into Yahoo account, my account was actually temporarily deactivated as I haven't logged in for more than 2 weeks. So I signed in, and everything went back to normal.
Now the Mail app has stopped asking me to key in my password (at least for the last hour, so I'm happy).
Hopefully this will work. If it asks again, I will just log into my Yahoo account online.
Cheers!

Question: all Mac mail gets forwarded to Yahoo

I hope someone can help me with my new MAIL problem. Ever since YAHOO updated their mail site, ALL of my mail is being forwarded to my Yahoo address. I still receive everything through MacMail....but then it also appears in my Yahoo account.
My cable carrier is Charter and I do not have forwarding set in any of my Mail preferences. I just had a thirty minute session with Charter's MailSpecialist troubleshooter and she confirmed that 'mail forwarding' is not enabled in any of my accounts: She says it's a MAC problem.
I also contacted Yahoo and they say, also, that it is a MAC problem...
Here are the addresses I have set up in MacMail:
charter.net POP (two addresses)
MobileMe IMAP
mail.com IMAP
anyone have any ideas?
thanks

Seems the problem has been solved at the senders end after my heart rending plea. Mail now being received. Thanks to anyone about to respond

.Mac Mail, Yahoo & Leopard Mail - How to get all in sync?

Hi there,
I'm trying to get .mac mail to syncronize my yahoo mail and all the folders to my computer and .mac. However, it appears that .mac webmail is not pulling in what is on Yahoo or my computer. Does anyone know what the settings are?
Thanks!

>>I have Admin credentials[ Username and Password] , by using this i need to Access all user's mail boxes and Contacts.
Admin credentials mean nothing in regards to Mailbox access, so to use delegate access you would need to grant rights to the every Mailbox using Add-MailboxPermission (or if you only want access to the Contacts folder use add-mailboxfolderpermission
to add/change rights on the contacts folder) or you need to setup and use EWS Impersonation
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/dd633680(v=exchg.80).aspx .
>>And i read aboutimpersonation that all needs permissions.
By default the only user that can access mailbox content is the owner of the mailbox, you will only be able to access content in a Mailbox if its has been shared with you or you grant youself rights to the mailbox using Exchange Admistrative credentials.
All of this will leave an audit trail.
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Glen

I can't find older emails in my Yahoo account or iPhone app BUT I am able to see them on my Mac Mail version of email. sent emails are OK.

... for the past few months i have noticed that emails in my inbox Yahoo mail account older than a few weeks keep disappearing. i cannot find them in my Yahoo account or iPhone app BUT i can see them on my Mac Mail version of email. Emails that i have stored into folders in my yahoo account are still there... same with my sent emails... it's just the Inbox emails.. strange, very strange. I don't know how to 'move' the emails from my Mac Mail back to my Yahoo account.

Please read and begin using Can receive email, but not send email. I had a similar issue with Comcast mail (could receive by not send) and found my answer in this letter. For me it took resetting the outgoing mail and telling the system to use a password when sending outgoing mail. If you need help with that please advise and I'll tell you where to look.

Mac Mail deleted inbox messages from yahoo mail, how to get them back?

I recently started using the Mac Mail client with my yahoo-plus email account.
What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
The inbox messages can still be found in the Mac Mail inbox, but not in yahoo's inbox.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
I would appreciate you help on this issue.

dechamp wrote:
What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
The Yahoo server did exactly what you Mail program told it to do.
Mail/Preferences/Account/Advanced - This setting is adjustable for each mail account.
I didn't know about this feature until it was too late. I have already unchecked it for future emails.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
Not Really, you could forward them to your account, after you've told your mail program not to delete the emails at all, but they will show up as being from you instead of the original sender. The originals at Yahoo have been dumped and probably purged. It would take an IT manager at Yahoo to manually replace the emails, not much chance of that.
I've already asked yahoo to "restore" my inbox to a day ago. That should help me with retrieving some of the messages back, I hope.
Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
The sync feature refers to IMAP email accounts like .Mac or .Me or an Imap gmail account. I didn't think Yahoo offered IMAP email accounts.
Apple's MobileMe membership will let you sync your Mail, AddressBook, Calender, personal website with iWeb, etc.
"MobileMe is a service that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync."
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
I wanted to use Mac Mail, see if I liked it or not, then decide to get a MobileMe account. However, this is still a side note, since my yahoo account is my main email client.
You seem to be very well informed, and I was wondering if I can ask you to clarify a point for me. Do you know how to archive the inbox in the Mac Mail?
And thank you for answering my queries.

Yahoo! Mailboxes to Mac Mail

For years I've been using Yahoo! Mail and just using the web interface. Why? So that if I was at a different computer I could still see all of my mail - including any in folders that I had set up in Yahoo! Mail. I did this despite hating the interface. I'd like to move it all into Mac Mail - since I can now just sync it on my iPhone and get the same results w/ a better interface.
I can't figure out how to get Mac Mail to see my Yahoo! Mail folders & import them. It's all fine for anything in my Inbox.
Can someone get me going? Thanks, in advance.
-Rob

I'm aware that MobileMe will let me do what I'm trying to do, but I'm not really into spending money for a service that I don't need. I have no need to instantly (or remotely) sync devices. I can happily wait until I'm back at my computer & can plug in a cable. I'm not quite sure why I'd ever need to sync my phone to my computer over wifi. If I'm missing the point of MobileMe - then please let me know. Btw - I don't need networked storage either.... I'm a fairly simplistic user.

Mail 3.6 Checking Yahoo Mail - Can I Add Junk E-Mail To My Yahoo Spam List?

Evening all.
I use Mail 3.6 to check all my e-mail accounts, including Yahoo mail. When I receive spam e-mail to my Yahoo account, I can add it to my spam list, but only for Mac mail and not my Yahoo spam list. Obviously the beauty of the Yahoo list is that I don't ever see spam from that address ever again (I have it set to delete immediately). Can I do this through Mail?
Many thanks,
J

Necessity being the Mother of invention, I built a crude work-around and fixed half of the problem. I'd still be interested to hear if any of you have 'solved' the other half.
First half fix: On the mail.yahoo.com site, go to the Sent folders and select all of the messages there. Then, in the header, click on the "Move..." button and then select the "Inbox" as the destination. (N.B. This can not be undone; You can move messages from the Inbox to other folders, but not to your Sent folder. Go figure.) The next time you synch (or "Get Mail") from the Mac's Mail app, these "sent" messages will appear in your Inbox. Sort the Inbox by sender and move the messages sent by you to your "Sent" mailbox folder.
Now you've got a complete history of emails, both sent and received, on your Mac.
Second problem not fixed: Messages sent from the Mail app do not appear in the "Sent" folder on mail.yahoo website. So while your Inbox is synchronized between your Mac and your yahoo! account, your Sent items are not.
I was hoping that synching my Mac Mail with .Mac would allow me to see my sent messages remotely, from any internet browser. But at first blush, that dog don't hunt.
Any advice - short of a wholesale move to my @mac.com email - would be appreciated greatly. Even if the advice is "give up the ghost; can't be done; give up the yahoo email"!
Cheers.
-David

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