Mail very sporadic in sending emails, sometimes not

I've been having problems recently using 10.4.11 and Mail 2.1.3. It's when I use Mail to access and use my AOL email. It started about 2 weeks ago -- suddenly. I have been using Mail with AOL about a year now, without problems -- until now.
I can retrieve my incoming mail, but have lots of trouble SENDing mail. At times, it rejects the password; at other times, it sits and spins, and then comes up with "can't send" message (takes 5 secs to as long as 2 minutes for this to happen); AND at other times, it goes through lickedy-split! I don't get it. I am using the correct settings (Port 587, SSL on and off, etc.) as I always have. I think it is AOL.
(BTW, I tested sending similar emails using my .mac account, and that seems to work fine).
I thought about deleting the Account out of Mail and setting it up again (if this is even worth it), but I cannot seem to find reliable method of being able to save all my old messages (which I have a LOT of). I know I can drag the Mailboxes folder out of my Preferences, but how can I bring them back into the newly set up account?
Any thoughts on either of these? (Sending and New Account set-up)
Thanks!

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. Leave checked (enabled) only the port configuration needed to connect to Internet and Built-in Ethernet (in that order if not the same), uncheck (disable) the rest of network port configurations, and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
Mail keeps information about outgoing (SMTP) servers in a separate list independently of the mail accounts themselves. The account settings just associate one of the available outgoing servers with each account. Orphaned or dangling outgoing server entries (i.e. not associated with any account) sometimes cause weird sending problems. Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Account Information > Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), choose Edit Server List from the popup menu, and delete any servers that shouldn’t be there — the Edit Server List panel shows the account each outgoing server is associated with.
If the problem persists and you have more than one mail account, try moving the account that has the problem to the top of the list in Preferences > Accounts.

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I already checked, do not check this mailbox when automatically checking for updates, and that works some of the time, but if I need to hit the Get Mail button, it gets mail from that, and I go from 7 messages to 850.
So is there way to be able to have an email address just to send from and not get mail from?

what you describe is strange. how exactly do you forward messages from the work account to gmail? if you do it on the server then there should be no duplicates and your work mailbox on the server should be simply empty.
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Hi All,
For some reason that I can't figure out is not send any email... Could yo please help me to find it?
DECLARE
CreationDate date;
ClosureDate date;
IncidentsQty NUMBER;
Tool varchar(100);
BEGIN
SELECT COUNT(STUCK_RELATED_TO_PROBLEM) into IncidentsQty
FROM INCIDENTS
WHERE STUCK_RELATED_TO_PROBLEM = :P57_INCIDENT_ID;
SELECT IDATE INTO CreationDate
FROM PROBLEMS
WHERE ID = :P57_INCIDENT_ID;
SELECT CDATE INTO ClosureDate
FROM PROBLEMS
WHERE ID = :P57_INCIDENT_ID;
SELECT TOOL INTO Tool
FROM PROBLEMS
WHERE ID = :P57_INCIDENT_ID;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND
THEN
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p_to => '[email protected]',
p_from => :app_user,
p_body => 'SERVICE DESK NOTIFICATIONS: NEW UPDATE HAS BEEN REPORTED INTO AN PROBLEM',
p_body_html => 'The details of the problem closed are the following: 
Creation date: ' || CreationDate || ' 
Closure date: '|| ClosureDate ||' 
Incidents Qty: '|| IncidentsQty ||' 
Observations: '|| :P57_IUPDATE ||' 
p_SUBJ => 'The problem for the tool ' || TOOL || ' (ID# '|| :P57_INCIDENT_ID ||') has been closed.',
p_cc => '',
p_bcc => NULL ,
p_replyto => NULL
END;

Hello Bernardo,
>
For some reason that I can't figure out is not send any email... Could yo please help me to find it?
>
Please do provide necessary information so the picture about your problem is clear for the forum members.
The blog post by one of the eminent person working with Oracle Technologies @Tom Kyte might help:
http://tkyte.blogspot.in/2005/06/how-to-ask-questions.html
Now coming to your posted procedure snippet:
APEX_MAIL.send (
p_to => '[email protected]',
p_from => :app_user,
p_body => 'SERVICE DESK NOTIFICATIONS: NEW UPDATE HAS BEEN REPORTED INTO AN PROBLEM',
p_body_html => 'The details of the problem closed are the following: 
Creation date: ' || CreationDate || ' 
Closure date: '|| ClosureDate ||' 
Incidents Qty: '|| IncidentsQty ||' 
Observations: '|| :P57_IUPDATE ||' ',
p_SUBJ => 'The problem for the tool ' || TOOL || ' (ID# '|| :P57_INCIDENT_ID ||') has been closed.',
p_cc => '',
p_bcc => NULL ,
p_replyto => NULL
);As you have not given APEX Version information I will go with APEX Version Application Express 4.2.0.00.27.
I would recommend you to go through the documentation of [url http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37097_01/doc/doc.42/e35127/apex_mail.htm#CIHDIEJI]APEX_MAIL to help you debug the problem.
This is what i want you to check with your email configuration:
<ul>
<li>Have you configured the email settings on the Instance Settings page.
Refer: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37097_01/doc/doc.42/e35129/adm_mg_service_set.htm#BEJBCEEH</li>
<li>Have you checked the configuration works fine? You can use the examples given in the documentation of APEX_MAIL.SEND Procedure.
Refer: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37097_01/doc/doc.42/e35127/apex_mail.htm#CHDDAAJE
Note: User SQL Commands from your APEX Workspace for this purpose.
Also after sending email check for the error in APEX_MAIL_QUEUE or APEX_MAIL_LOG using query:
-- Check whether the mail has been queued
SELECT *
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-- Push the mail for delivery
BEGIN
APEX_MAIL.PUSH_QUEUE;
END;
-- Check whether the mail has been delivered without any error
-- check for MAIL_SEND_ERROR column
SELECT *
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<li>Are you using Oracle Database Release 11.1 or higher version ? If yes then you have to configure network services to enable the host to send email. Refer: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37097_01/doc/doc.42/e35125/sec_admin_ssl.htm#HTMDB12006</li>
<li>Are you invoking the APEX_MAIL procedures through a database package? If yes then you have to set the SECURITY_GROUP_ID.
Refer the starting of APEX_MAIL documentation.
Use the following code before invoking APEX_MAIL procedures:
p_app_id should be the Application Number of your APEX application.
for c1 in (
 select workspace_id
 from apex_applications
 where application_id = p_app_id )
loop
 apex_util.set_security_group_id(p_security_group_id =>
c1.workspace_id);
end loop;</li>
</ul>
This is what i find doubting about the code snippet:
<ul>
<li>Is APP_USER passing valid email ID?</li>
<li>Note the usage of utl_tcp.crlf in the APEX_MAIL.SEND procedure examples in the documentation.</li>
<li>Why have you passed empty string to the parameter p_cc ? Note that empty string is not equal to NULL.</li>
<li>Instead of passing data directly to the parameters you can use variables, assign data to variables and pass variables instead.</li>
</ul>
In order to get accurate/appropriate response you should include at least following information with your question:
<ul>
<li>Full APEX version</li>
<li>Full Database version</li>
<li>APEX Web server architecture (EPG, OHS or APEX listener)</li>
<li>Browser(s) and version(s) used</li>
<li>Operating system with version, architecture(32/64)</li>
</ul>
The above information will help the forum members to ascertain the problem context and post most relevant response.
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Hope it helps!
Regards,
Kiran

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