Mail - Retrieveing Mail from multiple accounts

I have multiple e-mail accounts, one for each family member (1 primary plus 4 for my kids) and would like to retrieve all e-mails to the same in-box (to keep track of my kids messages). Mail Help instructed to create aliases for my primary e-mail account. I went to Mail>Preferences>Account Information>E-Mail Address and listed the e-mail addresses separated by commas. After saving, then restarting my iBook, Mail will still only retrieve messages from the primary account, not any aliases. Where did I go wrong? Thanks.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

If all email accounts are provided by the same provider, are the 4 additional accounts alias accounts with the provider?
An alias account to a primary account shares the same user name and password in addition to the same incoming mail server as the primary account.
If each of the 4 additional email accounts require and have a different user name, you cannot create the additional accounts as alias accounts to or with the primary account with the Mail.app or with any email client.
When creating separate accounts in Mail, each account has its own Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk mailbox (when Junk Mail is set to automatic) but you can view received messages by all accounts by selecting Inbox in the mailboxes drawer. When opening Inbox in the mailboxes drawer revealing the account named Inbox mailbox for each account, selecting an account named Inbox mailbox reveals messages received by that account only in the message list. When selecting Inbox in the mailboxes drawer reveals a blended Inbox mailbox for all accounts and the same applies to Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk in the mailboxes drawer.
Are you aware of Parental Controls included with Tiger?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/family/

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Spam has become a real issue for me, and I get a lot of spam messages which get through both the spam assassin filter from my host and get through the "intelligent" filtering in mac mail. However, some of these messages come in identical or nearly identical either multiple times, or into multiple accounts. So, what I want is a filter (or script) which can detect that there are identical messages which were received on multiple accounts. I never receive valid emails on multiple accounts - so detecting identical subject and/or sender and then automatically junking both copies of the message would cut 20-40% of the spam which is currently getting through filters. Is there a way to do this?

If all email accounts are provided by the same provider, are the 4 additional accounts alias accounts with the provider?
An alias account to a primary account shares the same user name and password in addition to the same incoming mail server as the primary account.
If each of the 4 additional email accounts require and have a different user name, you cannot create the additional accounts as alias accounts to or with the primary account with the Mail.app or with any email client.
When creating separate accounts in Mail, each account has its own Inbox, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk mailbox (when Junk Mail is set to automatic) but you can view received messages by all accounts by selecting Inbox in the mailboxes drawer. When opening Inbox in the mailboxes drawer revealing the account named Inbox mailbox for each account, selecting an account named Inbox mailbox reveals messages received by that account only in the message list. When selecting Inbox in the mailboxes drawer reveals a blended Inbox mailbox for all accounts and the same applies to Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk in the mailboxes drawer.
Are you aware of Parental Controls included with Tiger?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/family/

See mail from multiple accounts

I could have sworn that when I got my iPhone I could see my mail from all my accounts. Then I played with preferences and I am stuck with the one I selected as default. Is it possible to see all accounts?

If you have multiple email accounts, you have to go into each one individually, then into the inbox, to see emails for that account. There is no summary view that shows all the emails from all the accounts in one screen.
I went over to the iPhone feedback page and left them a message suggesting that as a future enhancement.

Sending mail from multiple accounts

HI! I have set up two Yahoo accounts on my I phone. #1=work and #2=home. If I send mail or reply to mail from my home address then it actaully sends it from my work address. How do I get it to send it from my home address? Changing the default account does not work. The only solution I have found has been to turn off the account I do not want to send from. This is a big pain when I am in a hurry. Any suggestions?

Try reseting the phone (hold down home and sleep/wake buttons at the same time until the Apple logo comes up)
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Receiving email on Mail from multiple accounts

Have a Mail (1.3.11) account which has been working just fine for years. Also have a gmail accn't which some correspondents use, the emails from which I would like to receive when I open my regular Mail app. There is a Mail Help document: *Adding multiple email addresses to the same account* the instructions for which I think I've followed correctly, i.e., entered in the email address field the two accounts separated by a comma [Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Select specific account] and Saving these changes when closing the Preference Pane; yet my gmail msg's are only showing up in gmail and not in Mail. HELP. Thanks......

There is no such thing as “Mail (1.3.11) accounts”. Mail is a standard POP & IMAP mail client, not an ISP. You can set up as many mail accounts in Mail as you wish as long as they allow POP or IMAP access, but the mail accounts themselves must be provided by someone else.
Also, why are you following the instructions of Mail Help’s “Adding multiple email alias addresses to an account” article? What does the Gmail account have to do with the other mail account you already have? If they are different mail accounts (i.e. different User Name and Incoming Mail Server, you must set up them as separate accounts in Mail, not as multiple email addresses associated with the same mail account. How do you expect Mail to be able to access your Gmail account if you don’t tell Mail which incoming mail server the messages should be downloaded from?
Instructions for setting up a Gmail account in Mail are provided here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13275

Is there a way to see all your new mail from multiple accounts on one page?

I'm currently receiving emails from four different accounts on my iPhone. I love getting all my emails like this, but it would be even nicer if I didn't have to navigate between all the different accounts.

Nope. There is no universal mailbox on the iPhone.

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I have a PowerBook pro and I set up 2 gmail email accounts. When I prepare a new message there is a pull down list for the "from" column where I can select one or the other address to be the "from" address. However when I send the messages they both always are sent from the same address. I am using gmail imapi and I believe I've got all the settings correct. Does anyone know how to solve this?
Please help.
Thanks.
Steve

Are both accounts Gmail?
If so check the outgoing server for each, which should be the same, and that for each address it contains the Correct Return address.
I suspect the Return Address for both accounts is set to the same Gmail address.

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I want to retrieve e-mail from my account on Gmail in my application, but I have a problem. I cant establishe a connection with pop3 server...
Do you have an example (full) in Java code for retrieving a mail from Gmail account.
I used the example from JavaMail Api 1,4 Specifications, but I have a problem with the parameters. (protocol null), and I dont know why...
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i hv retrived messages from gmail.but i m geting problem at the time ......
when i m reading mail which hava attachment.........
it is only showing attachment name...but not shoing the body part....
this is my programe........
plz any body help me its very urgent.........
give me a programe how to find the attachment name with body part........
//java msgshow -D -T pop3s -H pop.gmail.com -U user -P passwd
package MailServer;
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.event.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
import java.util.Date ;
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static String host = null;
static String user = null;
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static String url = null;
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static boolean verbose = false;
static boolean debug = false;
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static boolean showAlert = false;
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     static String attachment = "";
     static String indentStr = " ";
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static String subject = "";
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What's wrong with my Apple Mail?! It only retrieves e-mails once I send an e-mail from the account concerned!

Well, that's it really. I need to send an e-mail from an account for apple mail to retrive new incoming mail.
This has started happening since I upgraded to Mavericks. It's very temperamental. Some days it needs massaging to get my mail (as per above), other days it works like a well-oiled machine.
Any thoughts anyone?

If no one replies here try the Java Mail Forum:
http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=43

"This message cannot be sent at this time." I have been getting this pop-up for 3 days when trying to send out mail. I don't know what to do! I cannot send mail from this account on any ISP. Please help!

"This message cannot be sent at this time." I have been getting this pop-up for 3 days when trying to send out mail. I don't know what to do! I cannot send mail from this account on any ISP. Please help!

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Hi Again,
I am hoping someone on this forum will possibly have an answer to a very confusing problem.
I can't seem to get one of my e-mail accounts to be set up 'properly' on my iPad 4. The account in question is an account from BT, which has @btinternet.com at the end of it. I have 'installed' and deleted this account more than ten times. When setting up this account (as with all other accounts that DO work properly), the only info I am 'asked' to input is my name, e-mail address and password, in the 'text entry spaces' that relate to the INCOMING mail server. When this is done I USUALLY see the word 'verifying........' Then the 'blue tick marks' confirming that the info I have entered is correct. The validity of this info is also confirmed by the fact that this account can RECEIVE the e-mails sent to it.
Each of the last four or five times I have deleted this e-mail account and re-installed it I have NOT seen the word 'verifying.....' And I have NOT seen the aforementioned blue ticks. Selecting 'done' after re-entering my info just makes this settings box disappear, rather than show the verifying and the blue ticks, which then allows me to see that the account is 'properly' set up - or should be anyway.
Even so I still get all the e-mails again, but still cannot SEND, OR REPLY
The error message I get every single time I try to SEND, OR REPLY using this same e-mail account is:
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My username and password are NOT incorrect. The set up process does not even ask for a username or password for 'SMTP'!
Even if I go further into the settings for this account, I can find two spaces where I COULD put a username and password, for SMTP, but these spaces already have the words 'optional' in them so they are not supposed to be 'required'. Even if I DO put in these spaces my surname and password for this e-mail account it does not make any difference.
I have tried 'switching on' the 'other mail servers' which are shown below the 'Primary mail server' in another settings box, for the btinternet.com e-mail account settings, but this still does not stop the error message, AND the e-mail in question is then actually sent from one of the e-mail accounts connected with the 'other mail servers' - I know this because it appears in the 'sent' items folder of whichever account my iPad has decided to use at the time (not always the same one either). It also appears in the sent items folder of the account that I TRIED to use, despite the fact it was NOT sent from this account, and the error message said I cannot send mail (from this account).
I have contacted Apple Tech Support and they have told me that the problem is NOT with the iPad, it is with the 'account provider'. This is because they say that the info held and used by BT - the info that is used as the 'correct info', that is compared to what I have put in the set up boxes on my iPad - IS actually the info that is incorrect despite the fact that the info I use on my iPad and the info I use on the BT website (which was originally determined by ME when I first got my account) and is held by BT, is the info that is causing the problem of the error message. To put it another way, the info referred to in the error message is NOT incorrect, the error message is incorrectly generated.
Typically, BT have tried to deny the problem is caused by them because 'the info referred to' - which is my e-mail address and password - works correctly an ALL places that is supposed to work (on the BT website) AND works with the BT/iPad applications like BT Wi-Fi, BT Smart talk, etc. :( :( :(
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Many thanks
Bob

Update to above question:
Hello All,
To anyone with the same problem described above, on THEIR iPad (if it is running iOS 7.0.2):
Go to Settings; Mail, Contacts, Calendars; DELETE your *******@btinternet.com e-mail account, that you originally set up either using 'Other', or the 'BT' option which I am sure was in the list previous to the iOS 7 update.
Then ADD a NEW account choosing YAHOO from the list of options. DO NOT USE 'OTHER'.
Enter the correct details just as you (almost certainly) had already done in your previous attempts using 'other'.
When you see the 'verifying......' and 'the blue ticks' you should be able to exit settings and open your mail app and then receive all your 'old' e-mails again, AND be able to SEND as well.
All my 'old' e-mails, were NOT found in the 'old e-mail' folder though. THEY are still in my inbox.
So this fix worked for me.
After I deleted my account from 'OTHER' and put it in Yahoo, I like other people also ended up with more folders.
I hope this works for you on YOUR Apple devices.
Bob

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Had some problems receiving mail from an account and the service provider suggested I recreate it and try again... In doing so I deleted the old account and have lost all of the messages in the old inbox and sent mail box. I cannot find anywhere where these might have been put and expect that they have disappeared but does anyone have any tips for finding and restoring them?
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It all depends on the type of account and how it was configured. For IMAP-type accounts, mail is stored on the server, and setting up the account again is all that’s needed to regain access to your mail.
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Did you select “Directory Management Service” option, if so, please make sure you configure the Central Administration application pool identity account to have the Create, delete, and manage user accounts right to the container that you specify in Active Directory.
Did you install Exchange server 2003 in your MOSS environment? If so, you should add an SMTP connector in Exchange Server, if you don’t know how to do that, you can post your issue into the following forum:
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262947.aspx
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