MAIL AND .MAC

When I first bought my Apple I set up a Mac mail account. When the .Mac trial was almost over I bought a subscription and set up another email account. I thought I deleted the old account, but when I click on the postage stamp an apparently empty mailbox pops up and asking me for my passwor, which it won't accept. I want the old account completely deleted and the new one in its place so that when I click on the postage stamp the new account will show up.
How do I fix my mess to straighten this out?

Hi Rhonda
First, make sure that your .Mac details in System Preferences are correct. Open System Preferences, go to .Mac, and check your correct account username and password.
Then, go to Mail, open Preferences from the Mail menu, go to Accounts, and make sure that you only have one, correct, .Mac account listed on the left hand side. If your old one is still there, you should make sure you have any email you need from it (move it to a local mailbox if necessary), then delete the account by clicking the "-" sign at the bottom left.
Matt

Similar Messages

My 10.8.3 update did not install properly citing an 'Unknown Error'. Now, my Mail and Mac App Store aren't working. What went wrong and how do i fix it ?

My 10.8.3 update did not install properly citing an 'Unknown Error'. Now, my Mail and Mac App Store aren't working. What went wrong and how do i fix it ?

I tried this and still have the same problems. If I open Address book or the Mac App Store I get the library rebuild popup and a hang. I created a fresh user and then things are better apart from the printing issue. Its clearly some 3rd party software issue but the crash logs are meningless to me. I used the excellent Etre check app from http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck so I have a list of what is being loaded and can compare clean and crashed user info but as I cant work out which of the startup items, launch agents, launch daemons etc that are causing the problem.
I have eliminated Dropbox, Mac Keeper and Witness, and it isnt related to my exterrnal LED cinema dispay or my external thunderbolt drives, or any USB devices if thats any help to anyone else. Info from Etrecheck follows -
Kernel Extensions:
          com.oxsemi.driver.OxsemiDeviceType00          Version: 1.28.7
          com.rogueamoeba.InstantOn          Version: 6.0.2
          com.rogueamoeba.InstantOnCore          Version: 6.0.2
          com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower          Version: 1.5.3
Problem System Launch Daemons:
Problem System Launch Agents:
Launch Daemons:
             [not loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist
             [not loaded] com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
             [not loaded] com.bombich.ccc.plist
             [not loaded] com.dymo.pnpd.plist
             [not loaded] com.intego.BackupManagerPro.daemon.plist
             [not loaded] com.micromat.TechToolProDaemon.plist
             [not loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist
             [not loaded] com.orbicule.witnessd.plist
             [not loaded] com.sierrawireless.SwitchTool.plist
             [not loaded] com.stclairsoft.AppTamerAgent.plist
             [not loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.privileged_startx.plist
             [not loaded]          pcloudd.plist
Launch Agents:
                 [loaded] com.divx.dms.agent.plist
                 [loaded] com.divx.update.agent.plist
                 [loaded] com.epson.epw.agent.plist
                 [loaded] com.lacie.raidmonitor.daemon.plist
                 [loaded] com.lacie.safemanager.daemon.plist
                 [loaded] com.micromat.TechToolProAgent.plist
                 [loaded] com.orbicule.WitnessUserAgent.plist
                 [loaded] org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist
User Launch Agents:
             [not loaded]          .DS_Store
                 [loaded] com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
                 [loaded] com.adobe.ARM.202f4087f2bbde52e3ac2df389f53a4f123223c9cc56a8fd83a6f7ae.plist
                 [loaded] com.digitalrebellion.SoftwareUpdateAutoCheck.plist
                 [loaded] com.divx.agent.postinstall.plist
                 [loaded] com.google.keystone.agent.plist
                 [loaded] com.propaganda.dejavu.dvmonitor.plist
                 [loaded] com.valvesoftware.steamclean.plist
                 [loaded] com.zeobit.MacKeeper.Helper.plist
User Login Items:
          iTunesHelper
          Synergy
          TomTomHOMERunner
          Dropbox
3rd Party Preference Panes:
          Déjà Vu
          Flash Player
          Flip4Mac WMV
          GR-55
          Paragon NTFS for Mac ® OS X
          Perian
          Printopia
          TechTool Protection
          Witness

Windows Live Mail and Mac Mail

Hi,
I have Windows Live Mail up and running nicely through Mac Mail (I have just switched from PC to Mac). However I'm wondering what's the right way to sync them fully. I mostly access email through Mac Mail now but whenever I need to access Hotmail through the web, all the msgs I have read or deleted earlier are still showing as unread.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Helen

I see no one else has answered so I’ll try to get the ball rolling and maybe others will chime in.
First, I am not familiar with Windows Live Mail so I can’t guarantee to give directions to get you there from here but I’m sure there is a way. Some Googling found these paths:
A tutorial on the process (transferring mail and contacts):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpSQ3-DKxSc
Uses https://convertmyemail.com/
$20
Also https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2536701 which points to
http://www.windowslivemailconverter.com/mac/
$50.
That led me to “elm to mbox” where I found
http://download.cnet.com/EML-to-MBOX-Converter/3000-2369_4-75999580.html
$50.
and
http://www.emltombox.org/to-mac-mbox-converter.html
$50

Yahoo mail and .Mac

Here's the problem: when I'm on a web page and click on a "Contact Us" or "Send us an E-mail" link, my computer opens the Mail app. and I get a window prompting me to set up a .Mac account. I use Yahoo mail (the free kind) and don't really feel the need to set up a .Mac account (you have to pay for those, right?).
I downloaded "Yahoo Mailer" from macupdate.com. This software redirects from the link to a blank "Compose" window on my Yahoo mail. That part works fine, but the "To" box is empty, when it should have the recipient's e-mail address. At this point, I'm not able to contact anyone who has just a "Send us an e-mail" link. Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

When creating an account with the Mail application, .Mac is selected as the account type by default but it isn't required to purchase a .Mac account in order to use the Mail application to access an email account.
The Mail applications supports the following account types:
.Mac (which is really an IMAP account and behaves in the same way)
IMAP
POP
Exchange
But Yahoo prevents accessing a free Yahoo account with any email client such as the Mail.app but you can access a Yahoo Mail Plus or paid account as a POP account with an email client such as Mail which costs only $20/yr.
To each his/her own but I prefer using an email client such as Mail over webmail access which is primarily designed for accessing an email account when away from your computer using another computer besides your own with internet access.

Mail and .Mac Mail

Hi.
I am switching over to .Mac mail and I think I have have done something wrong. I have a gmail account too, but I'd rather just use one (.Mac) account.
After I draft an email in OSX mail, I then select which server to use to send the email. My gmail outgoing server works fine but the .Mac sever in the dropdown box says (offline) all the time and therefore doesn't work.
Any idea what I have done wrong?

Changing the port didn't help me. What did help was in Mail-preferences deleting the smtp-connection and maually add a new one (with the same name/ip and port). After that sending mail worked as good as in 10.4
Willem-Jan

Desk top mail and .Mac Mail

I am using my desk top mail and my .Mac mail, when my .Mac Mail syncs it updates my .Mac desk top G4 and my .Mac power book lap top but it does not sync my mail account. Should Mail be automatically updated when I sync the .Mac address or do I have to updated Mail independently.
Hope that makes sense
Thanks
Mike

Hello Mike.
A .Mac type account is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way.
If you are accessing your .Mac account as a .Mac type account with the Mail.app on both Macs, messages in the account's Inbox mailbox on the server are kept synchronized with the account's Inbox mailbox with the Mail.app on both Macs automatically.
With the Mail.app on both Macs, you can also store Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server and after doing so, these mailboxes/messages will also be kept synchronized with the server with the Mail.app on both Macs automatically.
With the Mail.app on either Mac, if you move messages from the account's Inbox mailbox to a user created "On My Mac" location mailbox which is stored locally on the hard drive, this process saves the transferred messages locally on the hard drive and removes the messages from the server at the same time. Messages removed from a server stored mailbox to a locally stored mailbox will no longer be kept synchronized with the Mail.app on another Mac since the messages are no longer located in a server stored mailbox.

Leopare Mail and .mac password glitch

I cannot send or receive mail via .mac because it asks for my password which I enter and it says nope...but I KNOW it's right...so I go to .mac and try and get reply that it's the wrong username and/or pw, but I KNOW it's right, so I click on forgot pw, reenter it and voila...it works for both .mac and mail...UNTIL next time...anybody experiencing this and what the heck is going on. It just started, got my Mac in Dec and all was fine until about March and from there it's been downhill with my Mac experience.

If you haven't already done so, I would try running Keychain First Aid on your login keychain, which is done via Keychain Access.
Launch Keychain Access, which is located at Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access.app.
Select your login keychain under Keychains, and at the menu bar, go to Keychain Access and select Keychain First Aid.
Enter your password, select Repair, and then Start.

Syncing Yahoo Mail and Mac Mail

I upgraded to Yahoo Mail Pro in order to use my Yahoo Mail through Mac Mail. When I delete an email through Safari/Yahoo, Mac Mail does not reflect that. How can I sync the two so that what I do in one occurs in the other? Further, for some reason all but four of my emails got deleted out of my Safari/Yahoo account. How the heck did that happen?
Message was edited by: Jerdog

You can't. Yahoo Plus only offers POP access. To do what you want, you'll need an email provider who offers email via IMAP.

Painful Mail and .Mac issue.

I own 2 domains and therefore have my own email addresses for them. I also have a .Mac account and use that as my main mailbox getting everything forwarded into it and then picking it up with Mail.app. The problem is that I never want to send mail via my .mac address I will always use my own domain. Mail seems to randomly choose my .Mac account to send the mail from which is increasingly annoying. Is there a way to stop this and set a proper default FROM account?

Why not just have mail download the messages direct rather than forwarding them to your .mac account. that way each email would reply from the email address that you received it in. You can access multiple email accounts with mac mail.app. The only problem you might have is with smtp not forwarding some accounts. .mac usually will process smtp mail from another account.
jercro

Apple Mail and .mac

I have it set up in Mail to download my email from the .mac server. Is there a way to sync the 2. I find it frustrating that when I delete an email in Mail that it still stays on the .mac server. Is there a solution?

In Mail Preferences, Accounts, tab Advanced, you must set "Remove copy from server..." to " when I delete from Inbox"
To delete the ones that are there now, you can open your inbox folder with the little triangle in front of it, and Control-select the .Mac account.
This should now open the status of your .Macmail folder, you can delete them here.

Mail and .mac account

Hi
Can someone tell me if I am right in thinking that isync will keep mail on my PBP and mail on my .mac account both updated each time I use either of them? Any tips to keep this happening smoothly?
Thank you

It's not quite like that:
A .Mac account is Apple's name for an IMAP account. With these account types, all items that you don't deliberately remove from the server In Box will stay there. (You can choose for all your sent mail you be added to the server Sent box by selecting 'Store sent messages on the server" in the Mailbox Behaviours tab. There's also an option for Drafts, Junk and Trash.)
When your mail data is stored on the server, you can view it from your laptop or online or from any other computer that has your username and password. (If you think of these being windows on the server mailboxes it might be clearer.)
Occasionally, you will have to weed-out messages by moving them off the server and on to your local computer (at which point that's the only place that you can see them), simply because of the amount of space allocated for storage - but you will get a warning to do so.
dot Mac syncing will sync details of your mail accounts between computers, together with associated rules if you choose these options. However, it does not copy any actual emails.
I have received, sent and drafts stored on the server, so I can pack-up at work go home and have all in both places.
Ask away if you have any further questions.

Mail and .mac mail not working

Well, I've sent 3 emails to customer service to no avail, so hopefully someone else on these inter-tubes is having the same problem. 3 days ago my mail stopped working. Mail on my Mac continually says my password has been rejected. OK, Mail sometimes is flaky. I can live with that (for now), but I also can't get email from a web browser. I can log in just fine and dandy. Bookmarks? Check. iWeb web sites? Check. iDisk, iCards, iCal? Check, check, and check. Mail? "Your information could not be displayed. Click here to try again." I've clicked "here" more times than Steve Jobs says "Amazing" at a keynote. I've tried on several different computers all with the same results. If anyone can help I'd be eternally grateful. Thanks! FYI, I have had this account since iTools.
Allen

Try recovering/changing your password. Take a look at theses sites which may help you:
http://myinfo.apple.com
http://iforgot.apple.com

Outlook mail and mac

I've got a pc phone that downloads from my contacts in Outlook, does anyone know if it will sync with mail on a mac?

EvilDuc996,
Please tell us the make and model of the phone, what mail applications you're running and on which machine, and tell us which you want: Mail synchronization or Contacts synchronization. These are two different problems/issues.
What's a PC phone?
-Wayne

Problems with mail and Mac App Store, can't reinstall mavericks.

I have a 2012 Macbook Air. A while ago, I started getting this message when I tried to open mail.
Also, when I try to open the mac app store, it looks like this regardless of the tab I choose.
First, I tried backing everything up through time machine and restoring my mac, but that did nothing. Next, I tried repairing the disk through recovery mode, but it said everything was ok. Lastly, I tried reinstalling Mavericks through recovery mode, but I got a message saying "OS X Mavericks failed to download. Use purchases page to try again." Of course, I can't use the purchases page because it won't load . The nearest Apple store is 2 hours away, so I'd really like to avoid visiting one, if possible. I would be grateful beyond words for any help. Thanks in advance.
Lane

Just to confirm, you can boot into the Recovery Drive by holding down Command R when restarting.
When you select to reinstall OS X, what happens?
Fix for missing MAS
It's possible #1 will do the trick, but you might need to do the additional steps in Keychain access.
1. Delete the files /var/db/crls/crlcache.db and /var/db/crls/ocspcache.db. These can be found using Finder’s Go >; Go To Folder menu (Cmd + Shift + G). This resets the cache of accepted certificates in the system. It doesn’t remove them, it just forces the system to rebuild the caches upon restart.
2. Open Keychain Access (/Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access). Select Certificates in the Category picker on the left side. In the search bar, type in the word Class. Look through that list, and find any certificates that have a blue + symbol over their icon. These are the ones you need to modify.
Select one that has a blue +, and hit Command + I. Click the disclosure triangle beside the “Trust” list to show the list of permissions. Now, what we need to do is to set this certificate to use the system defaults. However, for some reason, when you select it, it doesn’t save. So what you need to do is this. Under “Trust”, where it says “Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)”, change the dropdown menu to say “No Value Specified”. Then, close the window. It will ask for your administrator permissions. Then, open the info pane for that certificate again. Under “Trust” again, now set the dropdown that says “When using this certificate:” to say “Use System Defaults”. You can then close out of the info pane, and enter your password again. Do this for any of the certificates that have a blue + on their icon. There should only be one or two at most.
(Note: I had to toggle the settings before it would stick)
Restart your system.

Is anyone having difficulties with the new yahoo mail and mac 10.8.5?

I am using an older intel based imac desktop...it is updated to 10.8.5 I use Safari to browse. I use Yahoo for my email. I know...don't say it. Please. LOL
Anyway, it seems that Yahoo has changed their email system (again) and I am having all types of difficulties. For starters it keeps asking to I want to expand or collapse all. The icon or whatever it is called these days stays right there on my inbox and blocks me from getting to the email that is beneath it. When I try to forward and delete the sender's name, it deletes the entire email. Is anyone else having these difficulties?
Thank you
Paul

As a general rule of thumb, I never install updates until I read its info and I am having problems with my current software. I hide the updates until I need them. Usually this happens when I update or upgrade my os. I don't fix what ain't broken is my golden rule.
It is possible that you need to update or upgrade Quark in order for your newer printer driver to work. First I would try the following....
Disconnect all peripherals from your computer.
Boot from your install disc & run Repair Disk from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select Disk Utility.
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click First Aid.
Click Repair Disk.
Restart your computer when done.
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963 and restart your computer.
If your printer does not work afterwards, update or upgrade Quark. If that does not work, contact the printer manufacturer.

MAIL AND .MAC

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for