Mail.app settings

hello,
simple question.... i just configured a personal account on my mail app, how can i export the settings to run them on a different computer?

If the different computer is another Mac and you have Mobile Me you could simply sync the settings of Mail.
If this is not the case, the best way is to open both computers and follow the Mail preference of the working Mail.app on one and just copy the same info on the other.
May be there is a simpler way but... it is not so much data and not so difficult.

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How to sync mail app settings across multiple devices?

Hi all,
I've been using an iPad Air for a while now, and I have multiple email accounts with various settings associated to them (Signatures etc.) on it. I just bought a new iphone 6, and I want all my mail settings and accounts exactly in my iphone as well. Is there any way to do that or will I have to manually configure email accounts?
Regards,
Hanit Banga

Good day Hanit,
One way to do what you want would be to back up your iPad and restore that backup to your new iPhone. All of the mail accounts that exist in the iPad would become part of the iPhone. See this article -
Get help restoring from an iCloud backup - Apple Support
In particular the section titled Can I restore my iPhone or iPod touch using a backup made from my iPad?
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Safe computing,
Brett L

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I'm having problems with my Mail app sending out emails out of the wrong Gmail account. This was happening to me in Mountain Lion amongst other Mail app headaches, and I was able to fix it after weeks and weeks of troubleshooting. In Mavericks, the Mail app was mostly working correctly.
When I updated to Yosemite (did a clean install), I thought my Mail app was working correctly. At the end of November, I had some iCloud issues asking for passwords for all my apps. I had to remove iCloud in System Preferences and I added it back on. Anyway, here is my issue:
1. I have three gmail accounts, let's called them: primary@gmail, subscription@gmail and business@gmail. Over a year ago, I removed the business@gmail from the Mail app because the job was done. The primary@gmail and subscription@gmail were the only active gmail accounts I had in my Mail app.
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3. I went into business@gmail in webmail and there were all the emails responses. I forwarded them to my primary@gmail account and in the Mail app I looked at View>Message>Raw Source and I saw that the emails first tried to use my SMTP from primary@gmail but ended up using my business@gmail account which was no longer active in the Mail app. So when the people hit "Reply" to my emails they were sent to business@gmail in webmail.
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I went through my Mail Preferences Account Information and looked at Edit SMTP List. I had all these Gmail SMTPs there so I deleted all of them to start fresh. I left the iCloud SMTP info as it was.
When I tried to add a new Gmail account in System Preferences under Internet Accounts, it would only allow me to add one Gmail account and not another Gmail account. After a few tries, I was finally able to add the second Gmail account. I did go and look at Accounts in the Mail Preferences and I properly assigned the two Gmail accounts to only use the Gmail SMPT that is assigned to it.
Here are my questions.
Do I need to do anything else to make sure that the Gmail accounts in Mail app settings remain as they are and this doesn't happen again. I've made sure that business@gmail is not in my Previous Recipients or in my Contacts.
I've noticed that the SMTP for iCloud is listed as "None" some of the time and I have to keep selecting iCloud over and over again. I'm hesitate to remove iCloud from my Mail app because I had to do this at the end of November when I had the iCloud password thing happen and I had a big problem getting my Notes data back.
If I remove the Mail.plist in Users Library, would I have to go through all the settings in Gmail webmail and Mail App or would some of the settings be there?
Any help would be appreciated.

You set it up, and you failed to distinguish between the SMTP servers or assign the correct one to your copy of Mail (it doesn't actually know which is which, you need to inform it)
Open Mail>Preferences>Accounts (NOT Mail>Accounts) and go down to the SMTP server list, choose the correct server for each account then check the box that says 'Use Only This Server' for each account.
This is not automatic, you get to choose and if you don't then this will result.
Remove the non functional ones.

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I've been using Mail.app for years. I'm currently using the most recent version 4.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.7. At some point recently (perhaps with the 10.6.7 update), my sorting preference no longer persists between selecting Smart Folders.
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Well, is there a way to redirect unwanted mail back to the sender ? Or, a way to have unwanted mail go directly to rash?

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Looking fwd to your responses.

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Thanks guys!
what i mean is: I want to set up an account once to use it on both devices, the mac and the iphone. a new account should automaticly appear on the iphone after i set it up in mail.app.
earlier i could set up an account in mail.app and check a checkbox in itunes/overview to automatically sync the account settings to the iphone (and vice versa). the account was then automaticaly installed and set up on the iphone according to the mail.app settings. when i changed the settings in mail.app they also changend on the iphone. the account had to be installed once and could be used on both devices.
to me it looks like i have to set it up twice now, since the checkbox to sync accounts in itunes/overview disapeared (with mavereicks?)
hope, i was clearer now :-)
best, philipp

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Mail Server Settings for Email Clients

There must be something wrong with my iCloud account but I can't figure out what it could be:
I can't add my iCloud account to third party clients (Postbox, Airmail & MailPilot) I get error messages.
I succesfully added my cousin's iCloud account in those apps, on my own iMac in all 3 apps, no problem at all, yet It doesn't work with my account even though I'm using the exact same settings in both cases!
I'm using the following settings
IMAP Server: imap.mail.me.com
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SMTP Connection Type: Start TLS
SMTP Authentication: Auto Detect
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They're Apples instructions, not mine.
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Simple Concept: I don't want Notification Center to open Mail.app!! I want Notification Center to give me notifications!! (What a novel concept!)
I have been unable to get Mountain Lion to not open Mail.app when I receive a calendar notification.
So ultimately I want the Notification Center in Mountain Lion not to tell Mail.app to open for a given calendar event, when I've already gotten the emailed notification in Sparrow! Alas, this simple request seems to be impossible, according to the infrastructure built into OS X 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion).
Technical details:
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If I tell ML to ignore alerts, then I won't get the alerts in notification center when I am in front of my mac.** (Duh)
More info below:
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**I want Notification Center to tell me that I have a calendar event. I don't stay logged into gmail on the browser at home on my personal computer, I have my mail client and calendar clients to do the work that would normally take up two browser windows, and what's the point of notifications if they aren't being used??!?

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My Mail.app has been reset to default. All mailboxes gone!

I guess some file containing Mail.app settings got corrupted. Now when I open Mail all of my mail accounts/mailboxes are gone!!
Of course I haven't got a backup of my Mail preferences file... sigh
The Mail folder ~/Library/Mail/ still contains all of my mailbox folders.
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Dual PowerMac G5 2.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 5GB RAM, Dual Maxtor 250GB 16MB Cache

Hello Daniel.
Do the following.
Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Delete the com.apple.mail.plist file.
Note: Deleting or moving the com.apple.mail.plist out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information the same as before, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailboxes at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder from the Desktop.
And now is the time to backup the new com.apple.mail.plist file with the Mail.app quit when doing so. If this happens again (which it shouldn't happen often - I've never experienced the same with Jaguar, Panther or Tiger), you can replace the existing com.apple.mail.plist file with a good working copy from your backup with the Mail.app quit before doing so. This won't require re-entering all email account information.
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I can access my account on iCloud.com, but I can't use email clients without getting error messages prompting me to check my password or login.
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Password: Your iCloud password
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