Mail.app won't leave my password field blank.

mail.app won't leave my password field blank on OS X Mavericks. I need it blank for security. How to fix?

anyone, anyone? I switched from a Windows desktop, and frankly, have had little but problems with the supposedly perfect mac... At least I could send **** emails on my Windows machine...

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Mail.app won't accept ']' in passwords

Here's an interesting problem with mail.app that I recently resolved. I changed my password on a groupwise server and Mail.app could no longer connect to the groupwise imap server on my laptop, desktop, or iPhone. It kept claiming the password was incorrect. However, I could still connect to that imap server with other mail clients such as groupwise and thunderbird using that password.
Eventually, I figured out that changing my password to something else fixed the problem. Changing it back to the offending password caused the problem to show up again, and changing it to something else caused the problem to go away again.
As far as I could tell, the offending character in the password was a ']' at the end. If I have the details right, removing that one character from the password enabled Mail.app to work again.
A weird Mac OS X bug with certain passwords?

Additionally I get the following error every time I try and add the mail.app to the dock.
Sep 13 22:04:53 Dark-Snow com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[299]: 2010-09-13 22:04:53.719 DockSyncClient[310:903] Dock Sync Client caught exception: ISyncInvalidArgumentsException: [ISyncConcreteSession clientAcceptedChangesForRecordWithIdentifier:formattedRecord:newRecordIdentifie r:keepAwayFromServer:]: you can't change the record identifier from 0D74D6B9-3A18-4AAE-AC81-3724C2D9ABC3 to /Applications/Mail.app: it is already associated with a different record.
Now what is peculiar to this is that the mobile me sync is not running at this time. I'm not logged into mobile me and have the sync turned off.

I have updated my iOS and now my hotmail will not verify my password through apple mail app. I have reset password - tried new password and old password and it still gives me password incorrect. Hotmail works fine on Mac. Has anyone had this difficulty

I have updated my iOS and now my hotmail will not verify my password through apple mail app. I have reset password - tried new password and old password and it still gives me password incorrect. Hotmail works fine on Mac. Has anyone had this difficulty and been able to resolve it?

Did you try deleting the mail account, then adding it back? I've read a lot of times that is what needs to happen in order for it to work properly.

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lou tetl,
The list in iTunes under the Info tab is the list of accounts you can transfer the settings for from your computer directly to the iPhone.
It is not a list of the accounts on the iPhone, or a list of all accounts on your computer.
Hope this helps,
Nathan C.

Mail.app won't work properly after installing Yosemite

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some updates on this issue, Mail application uses the same proxy that has been set on your system (system preferences==>Network==>Advanced==>proxies). People usually use HTTP/HTTPS proxy for surfing the web. You should make sure to set SOCKS proxy as well. Mail application works with SOCKS proxy. Note that port number for SOCKS proxy is usually different from the port number for HTTP and HTTPS but the IP address of your server (apparently) is the same.
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My mail app won't open.

My mail app won't open. If I click on it it pulls up a blank screen and closes itself. It's an iPhone 5s running iOS 8 how do it fix it?

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Hello,
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.
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/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
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Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
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Email app won't open. I get blank screen and it immediately force closes. I've rebooted the iPad several times. It still works on my iPhone 5s

Email app won't open. I get blank screen and it immediately force closes. I've rebooted the iPad several times. It still works on my iPhone 5s

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That's not good! We definitely want your device to work properly at all times. What email application are you attempting to open? When did the issue start? Do you receive an error message when the application force closes?
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MacBook Mail App won't accept password

I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012). I am using OS X Yosemite version 10.10.1.
Since changing my Gmail password recently, I have not been able to use the Mail App. It keeps asking me for a password. I have generated an App Password in my Gmail account and entered it using System Preferences/Internet Accounts and Mail/Accounts but this does not work. I have tried using both my Gmail password and the App specific one.
This happened a few weeks after upgrading to OX 10 Yosemite (10.10.1).
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Open /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access, then Window > Keychain First Aid, and proceed to repair the keychain. If that doesn’t work, you may try removing the password entry from the keychain and letting Mail create it again the next time it asks for it.
Note, however, that Mail often doesn’t correctly report what the problem really is. If Mail can connect to the server but cannot log into your mail account for some reason, it’ll ask for your password, regardless of whether that’s really the problem or not. Don’t keep entering the password every time, because that’s not the problem (click Cancel instead, and take the account back online afterwards).
Some ISPs refuse connection attempts if they are too frequent, for example, or limit the number of simultaneous connections that are allowed from the same IP address, or the account may have become full, or there might be a problem with the network, or there might be a problem with the server... If the latter (i.e. if there is a problem with the network or the server), the problem will probably fix itself after some time for no apparent reason.
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list.
What’s the time interval chosen in Mail > Preferences > General > Check for New Mail? If it’s set to Every minute, try changing it to Every 5 minutes.
Also, try using a different method to connect to Internet, if possible, or connecting the computer to Internet as directly as possible, i.e. bypassing any routers that might be present, using an ethernet cable instead of wireless, etc., and see whether that makes a difference.
You may also want to check with the provider of this account in case they’ve made some changes recently that could have a bearing on this.

Mail app won't send messages out

I am logged into gmail on my iPhone 4 mail app. I tried to reply to a message yesterday and it wouldn't work. The message sat in my outbox saying "unsent" because I needed to go to my mail account settings and enter a password. Well I went to settings, mail, account, and my password was stored there. I re-typed it anyway to see what would happen. I went back to the mail app, and the message still has not sent. But now I don't have an Outbox folder on the main page either! The only way I know it's still unsent is because when the app refreshes, it says 1 Unsent Message on the bottom of the screen.
So my question is, what is going on, where did my outbox go, why did it tell me to enter a password, and most importantly, why won't my message send?!
I was connected to wifi, if that makes a difference. And does it make a difference if it was a reply versus a new message? I just tried a test email, connected through 3G, and it says it sent.

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Mail App randomly re-asks Gmail passwords (all devices)

Hello all
I have a MBPr 13" Late 2012 (OSX 10.9.2 all updates installed) an iPhone 4S and an iPad 2 (both with ios 7.1), I use two Gmail account on MPB and iPhone and only one on iPad. I added the second GMail account on MBP and iPhone about 3 weeks ago. At the same time I set same account on iPad as the only acccount since I use this only for work.
It's about a week that Mail App randomly stops connecting to my Gmail accounts and asks again the password for one or both of the account. This on all devices. It may happen for instance that iPhone and iPad works fine, and on Mac I have to redigit the password. Or MBP and iPad works fine and iPhone aks the password. Or for a while all of them woks. To make it short, the malfunctioning seems to be random, using Wi-Fi, 3G, at home, at work, in the car.... in the morning, at evening...
Also if I don't care to digit again the password and I click on Cancel in the dialog box, after a while may happen the connection starts work fine again.
It seems to me that the problem is on Gmail Server, I don't know may be Gmail updated the services and Mail App needs an update, or big G is making a sort of maintenance?
Or maybe Mail App doesn't turns unstable with 2 gmail account?
I don't know... I wrote to ask some advice and to query if this is happening only to me, or someone else is experienced same problems.
Thanks

Sandra Foster wrote:
With IMAP, all mail syncs across multiple platforms. IOW, if you've read a message on your Blackberry, for example, it will show as having been read on your Mac, too — and vice versa. *With POP, you would see all messages as new on all platforms, no matter whether you've already seen them on one of them.*
GMail, however, has its own interpretation of how things should be, and what they call IMAP isn't exactly what everyone else understands it to be. ;S
Not true. The POP protocol deletes the email from the email server when it is downloaded to your email client, unless you specifically set your email client to leave a copy of the downloaded email on the server. So by default the popped email is only available on the first device to pop it.
What is GMAIL's interpretation of IMAP? IMAP and POP are email protocols not GMAIL interpretations.
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IOs 8.1 Mail app keeps asking for iCloud password

Since the update to iOs 8.1 i have a problem with my mailbox.
Every time i want to create a new mail, it asks me for my iCloud password.
This happens on my iPhone (6) and iPad (Air) while im in my iCloud inbox, Gmail inbox, or just the general overview.
Whenever i press the create new mail icon it will ask for my iCloud password.
- When i give the iCloud password (correct one) it wont ask for it again in the next 15 mins
- When i dont give the iCloud password (cancel) i can just send mails but it will ask for the password whenever i create a new mail.
What i did:
- Remove iCloud account > reboot > Add iCloud account > didnt solve the problem
- Remove Keychain > didnt solve the problem
- Remove iCloud photo's > didnt solve the problem
- Remove iCloud mail > still asks for the iCloud password.
- Remove iCloud > solves the problem but i dont want to remove iCloud
- Disabled all iCloud options, (mail, contacts, etc) > didnt solve the problem
- Disabled 2 step verification > didnt solve the problem
Everytime i want to create a new mail, u see the phone/pad use the "syncing icon" 3x 5 seconds, maybe a link here?
Anyone else with any ideas that i can try?

That's interesting that it didn't start to happen after a while on your work iPad. I just tried my iPad this evening and I'm getting the same iCloud password popup message when I try to create a new mail or enable "Contacts Only' in Airdrop.
I still think it's a problem with our iCloud accounts. Some flag in the system isn't set or something for some reason. I don't even have mail switched on in my iCloud account so there is no valid reason why Mail.app would try and authenticate to iCloud just because we create a new email.
Signing out of iCloud fixes the issue for me (not that it's a valid long term solution) so that points the finger directly at a setting on my server side iCloud account I think.

Lion Mail.app won't sync with Exchange 2003

Hello,
After upgrading to Lion, I am having an issue with my Exchange email in Mail.app. I get new emails, however if I file any emails from the Inbox into another folder and then leave view another folder or exit Mail, when I return the emails are back in the Inbox again. It is as if Mail is not syncing my changes up to the Exchange account.
This issue did not begin until I moved to Lion. I have compared my settings to another co-worker, who is also on Lion and connecting to Exchange 2003 and everything appears to be the same.
Thoughts? Solutions?

RevRangwar,
Yes, I think I was. I went ahead and removed my Exchange account from Mail and re-created it as Exchange IMAP, and it appears to have resolved the issue.
Thanks for the help.

Mail App won't let me reply/reply all to messages

Hi folks,
Unfortunalty, I have a problem on my hands. My Mail application won't let me "Reply" or "Reply all" to certain messages. I noticed so far that I cannot reply to messages from the GMail domain. If I click on "Reply" or "Reply All", the buttons toggle like they have been clicked, but nothing happens. When I look in the Console application, I see the following entry every time I hit those two buttons:
2006-09-10 16:28:54.794 Mail[1654] * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
Now, I also cannot attach anything to any message. This is a consistent problem that is a real pain! If I want to send an attachment, I have to go to the webmail portal and use that to send messages with attachements. When I click on the paperclip icon in the toolbar, I see this message in the Console application:
2006-09-10 16:51:13.154 Mail[1654] Exception raised during posting of notification. Ignored. exception: * -[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil
What does this mean and what can I do to correct this issue? Thanks in advance!
Jaime Rios
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Hola Jaime.
This problem in Mail is usually caused by some Launch Services cache or preferences corruption. The following article describes how to manually reset Launch Services -- the notes at the bottom of the article also provide information about the side effects of deleting each of the files involved:
Resetting Launch Services
If you prefer using a cache cleaning utility instead of following the manual procedure described in the previous article, this other article provides links to some utilities that can be used for troubleshooting and cache cleaning:
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption
It seems that the most appropriate utility for solving this particular problem is Tiger Cache Cleaner, but you may also want to consider other utilities, such as OnyX, or Cache Out X, which are free. Whatever utility you choose, be sure to read this first:
Side effects of System cache cleaning
As an example, this is how you should proceed with OnyX:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Launch OnyX and enter your administrator password.
3. Click Maintenance. In the Reset section, check LaunchServices database.
4. You may uncheck any other pre-checked options if you wish.
5. Click the Execute button.
6. Restart the computer.

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