Mail Receives Mail Late

Am i the only one...but every-time i start mail.....or occasionally when i click the "get mail" icon...i begin to receive mail that should have been received days ago...my iphone receives email at the exact time it is sent.... i only have Gmail, and it is very fusterating......it's either i recieve some email messages or none...then a few days later i receive alot of old ones.......but the iphone retrieves it all the time without delay.....what can i do?

It's possible that it's somehow server related, but I'm having a very similar experience. It seems to be related to the size of your IMAP mailbox. Unfortunately with imap you can't choose to sync only some messages, so it's scanning your entire database on server and client side. It seems to take longer for read messages than unread messages to update.
I can't find a solution to this anywhere in the threads. I experience the problem differently on my two different macs, but I do experience it to some extent on both macs but neither blackberry nor iphone.
For me, the other oddity is that Mail never exits, I always have to force quit.

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Suddenly my (1 year old) MacBookPro's Mail program will receive but not send to my gmail account. When it trys to send I get the message:
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The server “smtp.gmail.com:[email protected]” cannot becontacted on the default ports.
Select a different outgoing mail server from the list belowor click Try Later to leave the message in your Outbox until it can be sent."
I have a MacBook Air on which the Mail program works perfectly. I've verified that the MBA and the MBP are using identical settings.
Any thoughts on what I should try next?

Just execute the three commands in three different terminals.
The IP-Number you connected to is strange. A reverse-lookup gives:
$ nslookup 74.125.53.108
Server: 192.168.178.1
Address: 192.168.178.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
108.53.125.74.in-addr.arpa name = pw-in-f108.1e100.net.
That is definitively not google. Is it the same from both notebook? If not you have a dns problem on the MacBook Pro! It could be your local router or some kind of proxy of your internet-provider.
Try entering the IP directly. So, a forward-lookup (in terminal) should give the following IPs:
$ nslookup smtp.gmail.com
Server:                    192.168.178.1
Address:          192.168.178.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
smtp.gmail.com          canonical name = gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com.
Name:          gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com
Address: 74.125.39.109
Name:          gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com
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Use one of the above IPs directly in Mail as your server for sending mail. Does this help?
If not: Did you try the "Connection Doctor" in the windows-menu of Mail? At which point it becomes stuck?

Mail: Received mails - addresses with foreign chars

Hi
It's hard to describe my problem in the topic
I am using Apple Mail, currently Version 2.1.1 (752.3). Now I have a weird issue with mail addresses. When I receive email (mostly from our company's outlook users), some of the mail adresses in the TO or CC fields are split and unusable. An example: I receive a mail with CC to a guy called "René Füglister". His mail address would be [email protected] or something. The sender sent the mail to "René Füglister <[email protected]>". Now, my CC line looks like this:
Füglister, René Füglister <[email protected]>
When I try to reply to all now, it tries to reply to "Füglister" and "René Füglister <[email protected]>". The fist one is obviously wrong and gets rejected by the mail server.
I have experienced this ONLY with foreign characters. What can I do?
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Rico
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Okay, I have had the problem of not being able to send email although I was recieving email. After reading prior posts on this topic, I turned OFF all three of my email accounts and then turned them back on and that worked!!!!!!!
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Are you sure the account is checked for new mail?
A .Mac type account is really an IMAP type account so any mailboxes stored on the server (under the .Mac account icon in the mailboxes drawer) are automatically synchronized with the server when first launching Mail and connected to the internet if the account is enabled under the Advanced tab for the account preferences.
I have 3 POP type accounts, a .Mac account and 2 IMAP type accounts. As a test, I deselected "Include when automatically checking for new mail" for all accounts and then quit and re-launched Mail. None of my accounts checked the incoming mail server for new mail but all server stored mailboxes for my .Mac account were synchronized with the server.

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The stored mail & received mail on iphone & ipad.
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(2) Bpel is receiving email notification
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Check the help menu when mail is open to be sure you followed all of those suggestions.
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+4) Make Sure That You're Not Being Blocked by a Firewall+
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+6) Send Yourself an Email+
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+7) Find Out if Your Mail Servers Can Be Reached+
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+8) Check If Your Account is Using the Email Servers+
+To check if all servers are in use by your accounts, open Mail preferences, click Accounts, then click Account Information. From the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) pop-up menu, choose Edit Server List to display a list of servers. If you see an entry in the “In Use By Account” column for a server, that server is in use. If you have any servers listed that don't have an entry in this column, select the server, click Remove Server, and then click Done. If you see that your affected account isn't “In Use,” go back to step 5 to reset your server settings.+
+9) Make Sure That Your Account Isn't Offline+
+If Mail can't connect to and access your account's incoming server when it checks for messages, it will take your account “offline.” Take a look at your Inbox icon. If it appears dimmed or you see an exclamation point or tilde-looking icon (~) next to it or one of your account names (if you have more than one account), try taking it back online. Click the icon to the right of the affected account's name or select the account and choose Mailbox > Online Status > Take “account name” Online.+
+10) Reset Your Email Account+
+Try deleting your email account from Mail and then setting the account back up again. Before you do this, save all messages that you want to keep in a different mailbox on your Mac (to create a new Mailbox, choose New Mailbox from the Mailbox menu, choose On My Mac from the Location pop-up menu, type a name for your mailbox, click OK, and then drag the messages that you want to keep to this new mailbox). To delete the account, choose Preferences from the Mail menu, then click Accounts. Make note of the information for the account you want to reset, then select the account in the Accounts list and click the remove button. To recreate your account, click the add button and reenter the information for your account. You can then drag all of your messages from the alternate mailbox back into your newly recreated account.+
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