Mail, Entourage, Messenger Progs not working

Suddenly, i cannot receive or send e-mails via Mail or Entourage. I cannot log on to Yahoo Messenger or MSN. However, my internet connection is fine (am posting using offending laptop). I am connect via Airport to another mac which is working fine. Any ideas?

Hello,
I also have been having problems with my Mail and Messenger. Here is the problem, maybe somebody can help me.
Mail keeps crashing everytime it imports emails. I have reset the junk mail.
My msn messenger shows me the emails I have it my account but when I click on it I simply arrive to the hotmail webpage and then I cannot login. I have downloaded it from several areas and it never works. Now I have uninstalled it and I can get to my mail through safari. What could the problem be?

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Hello, I have iMac Itel i3, from Oct, 2010 and have OS 10.6.7 and multiple users.
About 3-4 days ago the Mail icon in dock had question mark and was accidently removed, along with program on my user. Oops.
1. Mail 4.4 is on other users and works fine, but for me it does not work and tells me V4.3 does not work with latest OS X.
2. I reloaded software from my user with original disks (Oct, 2010) and got Mail 4.3 again. Mail 4.3 did not work with latest OS. I am unable to load Mail. Gives Yellow error message.
" You have Mail version 4.3 (1081/1084). It can’t be used on Mac OS X Version 10.6.7 (Build 10J869). For more information, click the Help button."
3. Tried to update software and look for update for mail 4.3 on Apple site to no success.
Hate to go to MS-Entorage ( I may need to learn something new and alien) mail program since contracts are in Mail/Address Book.
Ideas?
MattDeeds

Matt,
I would download and run the 10.6.7 combo update.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1361
Regards,
Captfred

In OS Yosemite the search function in Mail, Finder, Spotlight- does not work

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
2,6 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB
OS Yosemite,
Finder versión 10.10.1
Mail Versión 8.1 (1993)
In OS Yosemite the search function in Mail, Finder, Spotlight… does not work. Messages or documents with the search criteria are there and one could find them manually, but the search function fails to find them. Following advice from Apple Support (728965377):
1. I applied an Apple protocol for adware removal (Remove unwanted adware that displays pop-up ads and graphics on your Mac); I had none, because I had formally utilized a similar protocol that I had found in Internet, actually an app that implemented automatically Apple's adware removal protocol.
2. I rebuild the post boxes in Mail (Mail (Yosemite): Reconstruir buzones); It took a while but it functioned properly
3. I re-install the System (OS X Yosemite: Reinstalar OS X); It took about 4 hours but there was no problem whatsoever with the installation.
Afterwards I searched for messages in Mail, and documents in Finder and Spotlight, without any difficulty. The search function in all of them was working properly. But the next time that I needed to search messages or documents, an hour later or so, the problem reappear and a couple of new issues occurred:
1. in app RagTime 6.5.2 (Build 1821), www.ragtime.de, the menu bar disappears (it is invisible), when one performs certain operations, e. g., calculating a value with a formula, whether it is in a spreadsheet or some other component (text, drawing, etc.). After touching with the cursor the menu bar is visible again.
2. after reading an e-mail in Mail or copying an address, this is seeing as a floating object in the finder and over every application. There is no logical way to get rid of the floating object and neither copying or deleting or cutting it. It is not a big issue but nonetheless bothersome.
3. In Mail, messages with Flag or in VIP contacts cannot be seen in the appropriate folders, only in the Incoming mail folder, together with other messages. It seems to me, this issue is part of same search function problem.
4. The preview function within Mail does not show the attached documents to a message, whether it is in the IN, OUT or Draft boxes.

Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try again to re-index Spotlight. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
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I have to reinstall Mail as it's not working well. How can I make a back up of my emails so as not to lose them all?

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Thank you for your time Woody. Recently the Mac seems to freeze a lot, seemingly due to a problem with the airport, especially if the computer is inactive for anything more than a few minutes. Then yesterday I suddenly couldn't send or receive messages so I got in touch with my server and they reconfigured the mail account. I can now receive messages but can't send them, always getting a timed out message when I try to send an email. I phoned the server again and they said it must be a problem with Mail as we tried sending a message online from the server's webpage and it worked fine, so they suggested I reinstall Mail. So hence my original question. Sorry for the rambling! I'm not very computer minded.

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We just migrated from 10.9 server to the new 10.10 server and noticed that our per user mail quotas were no longer working. If I change the Server app - Mail setting - to have a global mail quota on it work, however, we have a few accounts that we need to leave unlimited and the per user quota will not override the global quota. So far we have had to leave the global quota disabled because of this.
Even without global quota turned off - trying to set per user mail limits is still not working. We are changing it thru the Server app and clicking users - selecting a user - then select edit mail options - and changing the setting for the limit size. No matter what we set it to - it will not work.
Does anyone know what command or how to change the per user quota limits from the command line? I found that Dovecotadm quota -u username shows you what the quota is, but I am stumped as how to change it via a command line or thru another method since the server app is not working.
Any help would be appreciated!
ps. Also posted my doveconf -n file below, but I am missing if there is anything not configured properly.
bash-3.2# dovecot -n
bash: dovecot: command not found
bash-3.2# doveconf -n
# 2.2.5: /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/dovecot.conf
# OS: Darwin 14.1.0 x86_64 hfs
aps_topic = com.apple.mail.XServer.a1c54f6d-f4ad-4431-b882-0f11570dd637
auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 plain login
auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-userdb
auth_username_format = %n
debug_log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-debug.log
default_internal_user = _dovecot
default_login_user = _dovenull
disable_plaintext_auth = no
first_valid_gid = 6
first_valid_uid = 6
imap_id_log = *
imap_id_send = "name" * "version" *
imap_urlauth_submit_user = submit
info_log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-info.log
log_path = /Library/Logs/Mail/mail-err.log
login_log_format_elements = user=<%u> method=%m rip=%r lip=%l mpid=%e %c
mail_access_groups = mail
mail_attribute_dict = file:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/attributes/attributes.dict
mail_location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/%u
mail_log_prefix = "%s(pid %p user %u): "
mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk
managesieve_notify_capability = mailto
managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date ihave
mdbox_rotate_size = 200 M
namespace acl-mailboxes {
list = children
location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/users/%%u:INDEX=/Library/Server/Mail/Dat a/mail/shared/%%u
prefix = shared.%%u.
separator = .
subscriptions = no
type = shared
namespace inbox {
inbox = yes
location =
mailbox Drafts {
    special_use = \Drafts
mailbox Junk {
    special_use = \Junk
mailbox Sent {
    special_use = \Sent
mailbox "Sent Messages" {
    special_use = \Sent
mailbox Trash {
    special_use = \Trash
prefix =
namespace list-archives {
list = children
location = maildir:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/listserver/messages/archive/lists/%%u:INDEX=/ Library/Server/Mail/Data/listserver/messages/archive/shared/%%u
prefix = archives.%%u.
separator = .
subscriptions = no
type = shared
passdb {
driver = od
passdb {
args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb
driver = passwd-file
plugin {
acl = vfile:/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/global-acls:cache_secs=300
acl_shared_dict = file:/Library/Server/Mail/Data/shared/shared-mailboxes
fts = sk
quota = maildir:User quota
quota_warning = storage=100%% quota-exceeded %u
quota_warning2 = storage=85%% quota-warning %u
sieve = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u/dovecot.sieve
sieve_dir = /Library/Server/Mail/Data/rules/%u
stats_refresh = 30 secs
stats_track_cmds = yes
protocols = imap lmtp sieve pop3
quota_full_tempfail = yes
service auth {
extra_groups = _keytabusers
idle_kill = 15 mins
unix_listener auth-userdb {
    user = _dovecot
service dns_client {
unix_listener dns-client {
    mode = 0600
service imap-login {
inet_listener imap {
    port = 143
inet_listener imaps {
    port = 993
    ssl = yes
service_count = 0
service imap {
client_limit = 5
process_limit = 200
service_count = 0
service indexer-worker {
user = _dovecot
service lmtp {
unix_listener lmtp {
    mode = 0600
service managesieve-login {
inet_listener sieve {
    port = 4190
service pop3-login {
inet_listener pop3 {
    port = 110
inet_listener pop3s {
    port = 995
    ssl = yes
service pop3 {
client_limit = 5
process_limit = 200
service_count = 0
service quota-exceeded {
executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-exceeded .sh
unix_listener quota-exceeded {
    group = mail
    mode = 0660
    user = _dovecot
user = _dovecot
service quota-warning {
executable = script /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/dovecot/quota-warning. sh
unix_listener quota-warning {
    group = mail
    mode = 0660
    user = _dovecot
user = _dovecot
service stats {
fifo_listener stats-mail {
    mode = 0600
    user = _dovecot
ssl = required
ssl_ca = </etc/certificates/mail.maxxx.com.3524D1A33970C65E8A8DFF78E757DDE3C66AED10.chai n.pem
ssl_cert = </etc/certificates/mail.maxxx.com.3524D1A33970C65E8A8DFF78E757DDE3C66AED10.cert .pem
ssl_cipher_list = ALL:!LOW:!SSLv2:!EXP:!aNULL:!ADH:!eNULL
ssl_key = </etc/certificates/mail.maxxx.com.3524D1A33970C65E8A8DFF78E757DDE3C66AED10.key. pem
ssl_key_path = /etc/certificates/mail.maxxx.com.3524D1A33970C65E8A8DFF78E757DDE3C66AED10.key.p em
userdb {
args = partition=/Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/partition_map.conf global_quota=0 enforce_quotas=yes
driver = od
userdb {
args = /Library/Server/Mail/Config/dovecot/submit.passdb
driver = passwd-file
verbose_proctitle = yes
protocol lmtp {
mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk sieve
protocol lda {
mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk sieve push_notify
protocol imap {
mail_max_userip_connections = 20
mail_plugins = quota zlib acl fts fts_sk imap_acl imap_quota imap_zlib
protocol pop3 {
mail_max_userip_connections = 6

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hi eric. many thanks.
i will have to read these links closer but what i meant to say is that the hard drive space that was being taken up seemed like it suddenly jumped way up because i had just gotten through a process in the last month where i am storing all my My Documents data on my Mac Pro. i am doing this in order to decide whether i should just keep it ALL on my Mac Pro and use ChronoSync to sync /some/ of it to my MBP.
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I have forgotten my answers to the questions which are asked to identify me, and I am trying to press "send instructions to my e-mail", but this does not work, what should I do?

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