Mail problems BIG TIME

So I posted earlier about how every time I go into Signatures to add / change text it's unbelievably slow. Inserting the cursor takes forever and if I try to highlight a line of text and erase it it a) takes forever for the "highlighted" text to show up (and then the wrong text is usually highlighted) and then b) when it does highlight the right text and I hit the delete key I get the spinning beach ball and it takes about 15 seconds for the Mac to catch up.
Then I cut and pasted the signature into a new Mail message and formatted the text to plain thinking the bold text in the sig might have been the problem. Then, the text was just as difficult to edit (as I've explained above) within the body of the email. I tried to close the email and it took over a minute for the window to close.
Now I'm trying to save a 10 meg mp3 to the desktop from an email and, 15 min later, the file hasn't been saved to the desktop.
I'm thinking bigger problems are afoot here.

Are you experiencing performance problems like this in any other part of your system? If so, it sounds like you might be running low on disk space. Also, how long has it been since your computer was turned off? If disk space doesn't appear to be an issue, I'd suggest simply rebooting the system and see if that helps at all. If not, drop back by and we'll see if we can find some other solution.

Similar Messages

Mail problem after Time Machine restore

New to the community..........hello everyone!
I just did a Time Machine restore and everything seems to be fine except
for the fact that my mail seems to be stuck.........spinning as if there was mail to be sent out?
I found a post with a similar problem: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1897021&tstart=0
Just wondering if I should follow the advice mentioned on that post or is there an easier way to resolve this issue?
Thanks

Make sure your out going mail server set up is correct according to what your ISP requires. Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Account Information.

Big Time Capsule Problems

I'm having big problems with my time capsule.
I've had it a week and the first backup is not yet done. Today I have spent 6 hours watching it say 'preparing' but never backing up. Now it is saying 'failed' because 'The backup disk image could not be mounted.' What is going on?
Please help - I've spent nearly a week on this and I'm sick of it. It's not what I xpect from apple.

I have been having problems with Time Capsule being unable to create disk image or not mounting, on and off since I got it about a year ago. I have gleaned a series of different assists, which I apply en mass, each time I need to reset and start all over.
Here are the key things to do to rid it of gremlins. (I don't know whether they all help or one is the key to my problems)
1/ Network name. In system folder> Sharing make sure there is a name of your network. Less than eight characters and no punctuation.
2/ Run disk utility to verify and repair disks
3/ In TC preferences, select no disc.
4/ Turn off TC at wall.
5/ Delete the sparse bundle (Created by TC)
6/ Erase the disk (In disk utility), if it will allow you
7/ Change name of Time capsule in TC preferences. Same again, less than 8 and no punctuation
8/ Turn back on and select disk, newly named disc.
9/ Try backing up.
Even if you have done some of these before, I always need to make minor adjustments to the disc or network names to kickstart it again. This will necessitate a 24hour full HD backup to take place, and will wipe what is already on your disc.

10.4.6 update problems = Exchange - time of mail delivery is wrong

10.4.6 update
Entourage 11.2.3
Exchange 2003 mail server
date/time server my Mac is using: internal company time server
When I send an e-mail, the users with MS office 2003 (on a PC) have a time received of 1 hour later. If I send it a 9am, they get it ASAP, but it is marked a 10am.
MS office 2000 (on a PC) has the correct time.
Any insights?

This is the iPod nano forum.
Don't you need to post this in the Tiger Forum?

Mail problem in 10.4.7

I have just updated to 10.4.7 and it seems my IMAP account can no longer be accessed from Mail. I reinstalled the combo update and it did not help. I've also tried accessing the account from Mozilla - which works - so it's not a fault with my network connection.
Has anyone else had this problem? How can I fix this?
iMac G5 1.9 MHz 17 inch, 1.5 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)

I have the problem using pop under Mail.
This problem is not just with "Mail.app"
I tried using thunderbird and it came up
with the same problem.
I originally applied the Combo Update.
It rebooted twice (and then spent some time
indexing spotlight)
I repaired permissions (nothing of note
except /var/log/securelog which always
seems to revert
Mail didn't pop messages from any server.
I deleted all caches using Onyx, then
restarted and ran applejack AUTO
Still no luck.
I moved the preference file to the desktop
and recreated an account. Still no dice.
I am about to try and re-apply the combo
update one more time (but I don't think this
will have any effect)
I have done a keychain first aid (no problems)
I created a completely new account on my machine
and that account could also not read email.
My firewall is off. I can ping the pop hosts.
Something is screwed up big time.

Many syncing and e-mail problems.

Hi folks, lots of syncing and e-mail problems here:
Syncing: My phone won't sync iCal (it tells me my phone is disconnected), my safari bookmarks or my email accounts. I've been through the threads here, tried resetting iSync, tried deleting calendars and resetting to 10 days instead of 30 -- still no luck. For e-mail, initially iTunes saw the e-mail accounts but did not sync theml. I tried the one-time advance settings and now it's not even seeing the accounts and still not syncing them. and for Safari, no luck with the bookmarks at all even thought the check-box is checked.
Also, the iPhone won't receive e-mail from any of my POP accounts, even the one I set by hand (because none of the settings synced.) I used the same settings that I have on my desktop, but no luck. I use RoadRunner, so I know I can't send off it. But I went to the genius bar today and they told me to just leave the SMTP server field blank and I should be able to receive, but all I get on wi-fi and edge is a message that says, "Cannot Get Mail, the connection to the server "pop-xxxxxx etc" failed." even on my home netowrk, with five bars, it can't seem to connect. (btw, it does seem to be working properly on my .Mac account, but I don't use that account for most of my correspondence.)
As far as the sync problems, the genius bar told me to reinstall iTunes, which I did with the new update that just came out this evening. Still no luck.
any thoughts? bum phone? some setting I'm not catching? any help would be appreciated.
Dave
Quad G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

You will find the iPhone will freak out over any kind of perceived data corruption. Calendars seem to the worst for this (windows or mac)
Test in a new user and try sending info in each direction. If it works - then your phone works fine.
Other users have reported having to basically copy the contents of their calendars into a sticky or text edit window. delete the calendars and create brand new ones. they then just transfer the data back.

Recovery of more than one mail at a time from Time Machine

Hi. I'm trying to recover some old mails from Time Machine. My problem is that I can only recover one mail at a time. After it has been recovered Time Machine closes and I have to start all over again so this project will take some time:-). I've tried to highlight more than one mail but then mail crashes….I use OS 10.7. Can anyone help?
Regards
Henrik

just use "command" key:-)

E71 E-Mail Key and Related Mail Problems

Since my E71 was updated to the latest firmware (at a Nokia Service Center) around 6 months ago I have had a number of odd mail problems, which manifest themselves as follows:
After an initial boot everything with mail and messaging works fine as expected. However at least once or twice a day the phone switches unpredictably into an odd mode with the following symptoms:
1) E-Mail key stops responding to short or long presses.
2) New e-mails and sms messages which arrive do not appear on the home screen as usual, though they may (or may not) appear as small icons in the top right corner of the screen.
3) For new e-mails only the title/header is downloaded, whereas usually I have it set to automatically download the first 2 K of each message.
4) New messages still appear as 'unread' even after reading them. Manually setting them to 'read' works, but only after a long delay.
5) The flashing navigation key light which warns of new messages/mails gets stuck in flashing mode and will not stop until the phone is rebooted.
Problems 1-3 occur every time, and 4&5 occasionally, but all can only be cured by rebooting the phone, after which it works fine again - for a while.
Since I first saw this problem I have updated the firmware twice (it is currently on the latest version), but the problem persists. I wonder if anyone has seen this problem or has any idea how to fix it? It's a great irritation with an otherwise excellent phone, especially since it was all working fine when I first purchased it. Thanks for any comments or suggestions

For anyone who is interested, I've found the answer to my own question, though not the solution to my problem. After several days playing with mail settings I noticed that when Retrieval settings > E-mail to retrieve is set to 'Headers only' or ' Msgs & attachs', there is no problem. However, if it is set to 'Size limit' with a setting of say 2K or 5K (i.e. just enough to capture the first few important paragraphs of any message) then receipt of many types of formatted mails larger than the specified size causes the mail program to crash, and the OS to switch into the odd mode described in my earlier post.
This is particularly irritating since I travel frequently overseas in Asia where roaming GSM data use is expensive (and there are no caps or limits on roaming fees), and due to the nature of my work my e-mails typically come with long threads and large attachments. Therefore I am left with the choice between:
     A) Downloading mail headers only and waiting till I can find a WiFi connection to find out what the message actually says
     B) Downloading the whole message and paying many hundreds of dollars a month in data roaming fees
     C) Using the fixed mail size limit setting and accept that my mail program will crash several times a day and
          require the phone to be rebooted each time to restore normal functionality
Anyway, it seem this problem is clearly due a bug with the Nokia mail software in recent builds, since it worked fine with these exact same settings for the first year I had the phone, and repeated clean re-installs of the latest firmware do not fix the problem. Therefore, if any Nokia developers are monitoring this board you can add this to your bug list, and you know where to start looking for the bad bit of code.

Mail problems on Yosemite

Hi there,
Does anybody know if anything is going to be done regarding the mail problem on Yosemite?
this was a recurring on Maverics too...
Since i updated to Yosemite, mail does not work well on my iMac, i cannot get my mail... but i can send mail.
it does not seem to connect properly to my Pop account.
my mail does work well on my iPhone and other devices.
it was fine after the recent Yosemite update, and now it's back... and very frustrating,
is there anyone who can help ? or anyone at Apple that is going to fix it for once and for all ?
Thanks.

Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Also see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
OS X Yosemite- Reinstall OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.

Major mail problem

i have spent 22 hrs with Apple support on line about a mail problem. I have a new Macbook Pro and I want to know if after I format the hard drive for the 4th time, reinstall Mavericks can I generate a completely new Apple ID, and E-mail address, just abandoning the old ones. The same with I tunes just start over.

If you generate a new ID, any purchases you have made in the App Store or iTunes and any updates to the computer will not be accessible.

More and more mail problems

What a disaster. I've written about my mail problems before with mail before and I know what I managed to do this time is my fault, its something "I" don't understand about mail. But man am I screwed.
I use my imac 98% of the time and I get 100% of my email on it (mobileme, concast, gmail). All works fine.
A week ago I have an emergency appendix surgery and am doing rather poorly so I'm in bed on my macbook air. I need to get my email on that computer. I enable the email accounts so I can get all my "new" mail. Ugh, it starts syncing and bingo 2 weeks worth of mail on my imac is gone. No where to be found. Tons of work mail, important mail, lordy this is a mess.
I know it had something to do with syncing.. the only account that is imap is my mobileme but I lost a ton of mail in that and its not on either computer or on the mobile me page either. It's just gone. And so is the gmail on the imac and again that isn't imap its a pop account and it was mail that was not in my inbox, I had received it weeks ago and put it in other mail boxes I created (like the work folder). And it just is all gone.
IF anyone can shed some light on what I did and how to avoid this, I'd love that. Should I have just gone to the websites to check the mail (gmail site, comcast.net, mobileme site?)
I am really in trouble with this email thing I lost stuff that I can't recreate. What a huge huge mess.
thanks for any insight,
Susan

The issue....just resolved itself! I have not a clue how this happened...

Same work item in the work flow is generating 2 mails with a time gap.

Hi,
I have a workflow object where,The same work item in the work flow is generating 2 mails with a time gap.
Please suggest how should I resolve the problem.
Thanks in advance.

Hello Rob & Rick,
Many thanks for your inputs.
I am working on smartforms for the first time.It still some time till I find a solution with the inputs that you have suggested.
I will keep this thread posted,& if I am not able to complete the task,i will close the thread.

The mail starts an update, but when the updating is finished, I can't start the mail. Each time I try to open the mail, the update starts.

I have problem with opening the mail. Every time I try to start it there is an update. I have done the update, but still it starts each time.

You need to delete and redownload those applications.
(120277)

NEED HELP BIG TIME!

I wrote a few days ago about this and was told that gathering
information from a form using Post as the method and having the
results emailed to someone wasn't a good idea and that it didn't
work very well. People basically told me to investigate scripting
or hiring someone, or use a pay service like MailChimp. None of
these are options for me right now, I absolutely have to get this
site done tonight and the person I'm doing it for will not pay for
a service.
The client wants to have a form on his site to collect email
addresses so he can compile them into a mailing list to send out
infrequent emails notifying people of upcoming events he's putting
on. He's a local artist with a very modest following, nothing big
time. I have no idea about databasing or MySql, and the person
doesn't want to pay for a service, so basically I'm stuck doing it
the "unreliable" way.
Can someone walk me through how to do this in Dreamweaver? I
assume I add a form field, and put a text field and submit button
inside of it. Here's my questions, to get this to work and use the
mailto: thing, what do I put for...
Form Field: Name, Action, Method, Target, Enctype
Text Field: Name
Button: Type, Name, ID, Value
Any help would be greatly appreciated by one stressed out,
hack web designer, thanks!

If this client doesn't want to pay for a service then tell
him the best
you can do is gather INDIVIDUAL emails from his site and have
them
emailed to their email address. Then it's up to them to mail
out to
their modest following INDIVIDUALLY.
Basically you put a form on the site to collect the email
address of the
user. Like this:
<form name="emailForm" method="post"
action="formmail.php">
<p><label for="email">Enter email
address</label><br>
<input type="text" id="email" name="email"> </p>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
You would then need to send the submitted form to a formmail
script
which will then send it on to the clients email address.
A free script named Formmail does exist if you search for it
in google
under Free formmail script
You would need to alter the script as per the instructions
which should
come with it and then upload it to your cgi-bin assuming you
have one on
your server.
You then point the form at the script by filling in the
action attribute
like:
<form name="emailForm" method="post"
action="
http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/formmail.cgi">
I no longer use formmail because it can be a bit of an issue
to set up
for beginners.
I now tend to use server side scripting like php to gather
the
information. IF you have php running on your server then
NateMail is
FREE and very very simple script to set up. It comes with
clear pdf
instructions that will do the job in about 10-15mins.
http://www.mindpalette.com/scripts/index.php#NMAnchor
xslamx wrote:
> I wrote a few days ago about this and was told that
gathering information from
> a form using Post as the method and having the results
emailed to someone
> wasn't a good idea and that it didn't work very well.
People basically told me
> to investigate scripting or hiring someone, or use a pay
service like
> MailChimp. None of these are options for me right now, I
absolutely have to
> get this site done tonight and the person I'm doing it
for will not pay for a
> service.
>
> The client wants to have a form on his site to collect
email addresses so he
> can compile them into a mailing list to send out
infrequent emails notifying
> people of upcoming events he's putting on. He's a local
artist with a very
> modest following, nothing big time. I have no idea about
databasing or MySql,
> and the person doesn't want to pay for a service, so
basically I'm stuck doing
> it the "unreliable" way.
>
> Can someone walk me through how to do this in
Dreamweaver? I assume I add a
> form field, and put a text field and submit button
inside of it. Here's my
> questions, to get this to work and use the mailto:
thing, what do I put for...
>
> Form Field: Name, Action, Method, Target, Enctype
>
> Text Field: Name
>
> Button: Type, Name, ID, Value
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated by one stressed
out, hack web designer,
> thanks!
>

Problem using Time Machine with Seagate BackUp Plus Pls HELP!!

I have a late 2006 iMac (running OS 10.5.8) & am trying to back up using Time Machine with a new Seagate BackUp Plus drive. When I select the Seagate drive in Time Machine it tells me I msut first erase the (Seagate) disk. When I hit ERASE, I get a Time Machine error : COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK. I see from various posts that 10,5 & 10,6 have issues with some external drives so want to upgrade to Mavericks (to get around this incompatibility issue): HOwever apparently my iMac is too old (by 1 year) to allow this. Can anyone give me any advice on how to get my iMac content backed up via Time Machine using the Seagate BackUP PLus drive I bought (becasue it is supposedly "compatible with PCs & Macs".
Thank you!!
Wendy

Your Seagate drive should work just fine. If it doesn't have any important data on it, try re-formatting it with Disk Utility to blank it out. Or run the Disk verify/repair and see if you can get it to fix any problems.
I have a Drobo FS too. You probably need a firmware update, they issued one a while back to fix problems with Time Machine. Use the Dashboard or download it from their support site, http://www.drobo.com/support/updates.php
Just curious how long you let it run after it "stalled". If it is a big file it could just be taking a while to copy over, do you see activity lights on the USB drive? The first time you use time machine let it run overnight, it's going to take a while, after that it will update quickly.
While you're at it, you might want to verify your start-up disk too with Disk Utility.

Mail problems BIG TIME

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for