One of my POP mail accounts stop receiving new email

I have done everything that other postings say (remove the "AlreadyDownloaded) but I can only get emails as of Jan 9, 2006 and no further.
I can send emails, but Apple Mail won't retrieve newer emails from my server.
I checked and I can see/seend/receive emails from a webmail, even Entourage works fine.
What can I do?

I meant to say "stopped" receiving new email...

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Hello,
Today a little after 12pm, my Firefox Thunderbird stopped receiving new emails and I cannot send emails nor save them. Nothing is downloading. I restarted my comp twice already and updated FT, but still nothing. Please help!
John

May be problem with your Settings and Port
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/problems-sending-and-receiving-messages

IPhone mail app stopped loading new emails

Hello,
since two days I recognized increased Battry consumption.
Found out that the IOS mail app is the reason for.
Once mail launched, app says loading - the internet access circle appears and nothing happens.
Same happens with my wife's iPhone.
We're both on IOS 7.0.4
I have an 4s, my wife iPhone 4.
I have configured 3 mail accounts
T-Online and Gmail using Exchange profile and activesync and Outlok.com IMAP.
My wife is only using Gmail - same setup.
Normal retart or cold restart - nothing changes, no connection/update of emails.
Strange is that my iPAD 2 using same 3 accounts also on IOS 7.0.4 is working properly.
Tried to delete the Gmail account - iPhone preferences stopps at deleteing account.
No idea what this issue is cause by.
Many thanks for any help
Regards
Helmut

You want to access your gmail through the gmail server by deleting your account, put in your email again but put it through gmail hopefully this works good luck

I had no problem setting up my pop mail account for my primary email, but cannot set up a 2nd pop account for my secondary account. I'm using Ipad2. Can you help?

I cannot seem to set up a 2nd pop account on my Ipad2. No problems setting up the primary but the secondary keeps telling me that either username or password is incorrect. Both are correct. It's driving me crazy. Can someone help?
Thanks!

Maybe I'm not following completely, but you can configure email accounts manually, if you want. Just hold down the Option key when you click Continue on the first screen. You can then choose the type of account and set up the servers as you like.
This help page seems to think you can still use POP with Yahoo.
http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?locale=en_US&page=content&id=SLN4724

Mail.app stopped receiving new mail from Exchange

The mail server is Exchange 2007
It just happens every 20ish hr
Tried connection doctor and not help.
Only way to workaround this is you realize no new mail for a while then manually restart Mail.app.

Oh, existing topic
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15151424
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2300606

My emails from the last five years have disappeared and trying to receive new emails generates an error message

My antivirus scan secured a FakeAlert threat. Now, all emails from the past five years are no longer visible in my Inbox and are not in the Deleted Items folder. Any time I try to receive a new email I receive the following message:
"There was an error downloading the following message:
From: <sender>
Subject: <subject>
This message may contain a virus or there is not enough disk space. Skip this message?"
Enter No:
"Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the mailbox."
I have write privileges and 184 GB of free disk space. I recently deleted many emails and compacted my inbox. I cannot restore any files that the scan deleted because there are none visible.
I have contacted my antivirus software providers and they concluded that the problem lies with my email software. Can you please help?

REmove all emails from the Inbox to other folders.
When it is empty do the next stage.
If you are using a POP mail account and have some emails in the webmail view that are missing in Thunderbird, you could get everything currently on the server downloaded again.
Make hidden files and folders visible:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
In Thunderbird
* Help > Troubleshooting Information
* click on 'Show Folder' button
* '''close Thunderbird now - this is important. '''
* clickon 'Mail' folder
* click on mail account name
* Locate and delete these files: '''Inbox and Inbox.msf'''
* locate and delete this file: '''popstate.dat'''
* close the window - top right X
* restart Thunderbird
A new Inbox will be created.
A new popstate.dat file will be created.
It keeps a record of everything downloaded, as it is new and empty, TB will believe everything currently in server Inbox needs to be downloaded.
This will get everything currently in server Inbox back in Thunderbird. As you already have some emails, you may get some duplicates, but only the once.
I would not expect any emails are recoverable from the Inbox in Thunderbird because they may have been corrupted by either an unknown reason or by the antivirus program doing something with the file to make emails lose information, it is possible that when you compacted the file emails were lost. Compacting removes 'marked as deleted' emails, but if it didi not know where a marked as deleted email ended, good emails could have been removed due to the corruption.
In future, compacting should be done on a regular basis, but never compact a file/folder that you think may be corrupted. Getting the error message saying the file may be corrupted was a good hint that somethig was wrong.
Report back on results.

One of Three Mail Accounts not receiving msgs

Cannot retrieve msgs. in mail from one of three email accounts. All are set up the same. All three had been working fine for over one year. A couple days ago, one of the accounts stopped retrieving mail. I can see the msgs. on the mail server when I use a browser w/ webmail (which is Comcast), but I cannot retrieve into Mac Mail. I've not changed anything. I can send email msgs from all three accounts and can retrieve msgs. in two of the three accounts.
Also, I tried a different mail appn (i.e., Netscape Mail) and was able to retrieve the msgs. for the email account that is no longer working in Mac Mail. Help!!! I depend on this account for important communications...
Tom

As previously noted, the problem in retrieving msgs. to one of my three mail accounts was resolved, but I wasn't sure what the fix was. Well, the problem returned again today (after a couple months of no issues) where one of the accounts could not retrieve msgs. from the Comcast POP server. I searched the Apple Support site and noticed the recommendation to have different usernames and "different passwords" for each mail account on same server. Comcast Mail has a scheme of primary and secondary mail accounts. The mail account unable to retrieve msgs. from the server was a secondary account w/ a different user name than the primary, but the same password. I changed the password on the secondary email account (both on Comcast's server and in the local Mail preference) and all is working fine. I don't know for certain if this was actual fix or something else was changed by Comcast or me, but I believe this did it.
Tom

Could someone PLEASE tell me how to set up more than one POP mail account.

I am soooo frustrated. Before I upgraded to Tiger I had no problems setting up my mail accounts. Now, I can only set up one POP mail account. I have three mail accounts that I desperately need to set up from the same ISP server, all POP accounts. On Panther and earlier, all I had to do was add the accounts. Now I have ONE POP account and when I try to set up another I get an error message that I already have a POP account set up. Why is this happening and what happened to the old system that worked just fine. I am so annoyed with this. It simply defies logic!!!!

I don't know if this will work or not, but why don't you try using bogus pop and/or smtp server information when you initially establish the accounts with Mail's setup wizard? Just continue through the "warning: cannot validate server" messages that the wizard will give you. Then go into Mail > preferences > accounts and highlight each of the new accounts, one at a time, and try changing the incoming pop and outgoing smtp mail server information to what it is supposed to be?
For the "Outgoing" server just use the pull-down menu, to select it, and when all accounts are done, go into that same pull-down menu and choose "Edit Server List..." to remove the bogus smtp server information.
Incoming should be just renaming that pop server in the "Incoming server" field.
If that doesn't work, I've got something riskier you could try, again with no guarantees, and that is editing your ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file using either the Property List Editor that comes with XCode Tools (will launch automagically when you click on that .plist file if XCode is installed) or with the pico editor in Terminal, and possibly renaming some folders in your ~/Library/Mail folder, too. Again, start with the bogus server info, then find those entries in the .plist file and make changes there.
Note: if not familiar with the notation, "~" means your "home" directory.
(if this solves your problem, or is actually helpful towards arriving at a solution to your problem, please consider marking this reply as "helpful" or "solved," in addition to, if applicable, marking this question as "answered")

Using a POP mail account in mac mail

My friend has an AT&T sbcglobal POP mail account he has added to his mac mail app. Since it is POP mail it is not always received in his mac mail box if AT&T Yahoo account receives it first. I guess he can prevent the Yahoo mail box from downloading the messages if he signs out of the Yahoo account.But he also has an iPhone. So will he still have the race problem between the computer & the iPhone on which gets the mail first?
Appreciate any suggestions on how this can be solved?

For POP:
The following mail server settings will work with all AT&T email domains: @ameritech.net, @att.net, @bellsouth.net, @flash.net, @nvbell.net, @pacbell.net, @prodigy.net, @sbcglobal.net, @snet.net, @swbell.net, @wans.net.
Email Program Settings Field:
Enter:
Incoming (POP)
inbound.att.net
Outgoing (SMTP)
outbound.att.net(requires authentication)
Incoming mail server:
POP3
Incoming/Outgoing User Name:
Full AT&T email address, including domain (e.g., [email protected], [email protected])
Incoming mail port #:
995, secure connection (SSL) checked
Outgoing mail port #
465, secure connection (SSL) checked
I assume the settings you are refering to gives that delay for marking the messages as read when highlighted for that period of time. Probably for scrolling through the list without changing the unread status. Lion doesn't have that selection, so I can't test that at the moment.

I am currently volunteering in Uganda, so data is precious. I can no longer afford unlimited data, I pay by MB/GB. All of a sudden Mail has stopped receiving. I wait until about 60meg, but no new mail. Using Gmail. Doctor says connected fine.

I am currently volunteering in Uganda, so data is precious. I can no longer afford unlimited data, I pay by MB/GB. All of a sudden Mail has stopped receiving. I wait until about 60meg, but no new mail. Using Gmail. Connectivity Doctor says connected fine. No probs there. And weirdly, when I want to send an email. I write it, it takes absolutely ages to try to send but as soon as I click disconnect it sends the email. Very odd. I would just love to be able to write all my emails offline and save to drafts/Outbox and then just connect to send and check emails then disconnect again.

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Deleted Pop Mail account, which deleted all my messages in Inbox.

I deleted a POP mail account to use a new IMAP account. Unfortunately this seems to have deleted my Inbox and Sent Mail folders. Does anyone know any way I can retrieve these? I immediately closed out of Mail.I checked in User> Library> Mail, but I don't see the Inbox or sent .mbox. Anybody have any idea if they're retrievable? Thanks so much.
-Hannah

Hi Hannah, and a warm welcome to the forums!
It's Possible, but you must quit using the Computer immediately.
Either boot this one in Target mode...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
And recovering from another Mac, or booting this Mac from another HDD, then using Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
Or professional Data Recovery Services.
BUT, every second you use that Mac the chances will be slimmer.

Deleted POP mail account and messages went with it. HELP!!!!!!

To start off, I am fairly new to the Mac world. I have been having problems with Mail and my outgoing smtp server. I thought that if I deleted my pop mail account and then recreated it it would stop hanging on my outgoing mail. I am a previous Windows user and this practice causes no harm there and I mistakenly drew the same conclusion here. So I deleted the account and then set it up again and low and behold all of my messages are now gone except for the 850 or so that I have had this year.
Is there anywhere that I can find the old mail messages hidden on my mac? I'm sure that it has them saved somewhere, I just don''t know where to look. I would really appreciate any help. I had about 6000 messages from the last couple of years and I often need to search back through old emails.
Brad

When you go to delete an account, a warning pops up displaying
"This will permanently delete the account setup information, mailboxes, and messages from your computer. Copies of messages on the mail server, if they exist, are not affected."
If you acknowlege the warning and click 'OK' then the account setup information, mailboxes, and messages are permanently deleted from your computer.
If you want to have any hope of salvaging the data from the hard disk, you'll need to stop using the computer and either install data recovery software(FileSalvage, for example) on an external HD or send the disk out to a data recovery service.
For future reference, if you find yourself wanting to start over with a Mail account-or any app-you can delete the .plist file for the app from Users/~/Library/Preferences

Pop mail account and duplicates on mail.ap

Hi,
Mail is duplicating messages, I have a pop mail account and the preference setting is to erase messages on the server.
Some duplicates are from Nov 2006; after I erased all messages using the terminal and ssh connection.
I was told to rebuild mail index and did it, no improvement.
.......... any help appreciated, I have invested many hours into erasing duplicates ... thanks, Garrett
Why don't you try rebuilding your Mail index:
1. Quit Mail if it's running.
2. Go to ~/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file.
3. Restart Mail and wait for it to import your existing messages. When that's done, any duplicates or ghost messages should be gone..

Sorry, both at once is confusing in retrospect.
Just meant backup the whole works and drag the current cache & envelope out of their locations to the desktop.
What about the plist?
You can make a Copy of that to move to the Desktop. Sometimes that needs to be made anew also, but requires putting in account info and such, so we generally wait on that one.
What about the files on the desk top?
If everything works right, we can trash them, if nit we can mive them back.
I'm not sure from these ideas what might be the result or why there is a problem in the first place.
Same here, but those files can become corrupt.

I have a POP mail account on my Ipad. After I trash emails, they sometimes reappear latter that same day or the next day. Why is that and what can I do?

I have a POP mail account on my ipad. When I trash my emails, they reappear later that day or the next day. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and what to do to stop it? Thanks

I have that every now and then, especially if I have an interruption when using emails, like network loss, etc.
I think the email app loses track somehow of what emails it has fetched from the server and redownloads them.
If this continues, you can try deleting the email account and recreating it, but I occasionally have had this issue since I got the iPad 1 a year ago.
Note: My settings are Delete from server = Never.
(I clear the server's email with my laptop, not my iPad.)

Cannot setup 2nd POP mail account

When I go through the settings adding another pop mail account, I do not have an ADVANCED button to add the specific info like I do on the first POP mail account. This is a necessary step otherwise when I save it times out unable to connect.
The manual says there should be an ADVANCED button which there is on the first mail account buut not on subsequent accounts????
Why?????
When I added the second mail accoun to Outlook, it synced in just fine and an ADVANCED button was active. But I don't really want Outlook to pick up the mail for this particular website as I use Outlook Express for that purpose, but you cannot sync with bothe Outlook and OE. Of course deleting the mail account in Outlook removes it from theiPhone and I am back to square one.
Any ideas?
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When I save the settings it bombs because it attempts to verify and the security (advanced) settings are not set yet.
Ther error is:
Secure Connection Failed.
The certificate "[email protected]" may be invalid
My login requires the full email address as the username plus I need to change the SMTP to port 26 and requires auth

One of my POP mail accounts stop receiving new email

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