POP3 mail problem solved

Please see my other post regarding email problems & a solution that I have tried & tested. I hope this helps others. /t5/Eseries-and-Communicators/POP3-email-query-on-E72/m-p/740655/highlight/false#M74549

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Mail & Adress Book: issues sending group mail - Problem solved

I started writing this discussion because I could not get something to work. As I wrote it, I made many tests to confirm what I was writing and also read several past discussions on the subject. I ended up solving my problem and decided to share my findings. Hope it is useful to other people.
EMAIL TO A GROUP WITH ALL RECIEPIENTS SHOWING IN THE «TO» HEADER - My problem solved
SENDING FROM THE MAIL APPLICATION:
To start do the following: Mail/Preferences/Composing check «Show members of a group»
Then for a group name with two or more words OR wit a one word group name, start writing the group name in the «TO» header of an email wait until the « () » appears highlithed in a color as you slowly write the Address Book group name and then select the group name from the scroling list appearing below which comes from your Adress Book (whether it's open or not). If you choose in a selection list before the « () » appears as you type, you could end up with an empty list and the group email does not work. When the « () » does not yet appear but the group name does below, it most likely will not work but if you scroll down you may find a second one that will. The whole thing is wear but once you get the hang of it you make it work everytime.
SENDING FROM THE ADDRESS BOOK APPLICATION:
If you try to send the email to a group from the application ADRESS BOOK by pressing «ctrl» & right clicking the name of the group and select «Send an email to GROUP-NAME», it will work also. But the group name must not have a space before its name in the Address Book (one could decide to do this to have a group to appear at the top of a list of groups). The latter was my problem and sending from the address book application did not work.
EMAIL TO A GROUP WITH «UNDISCLOSED RECIPIENTS» SHOWING IN THE «TO» HEADER - My problem solved
First one has to uncheck the «Show members of a group» in Mail/Preferences/Composing
Second strat a new email and proceed as described above in «1.» in the second and third paragraph.
As suggested in one discussion, if you still can not get it to work try closing your Mail and Address Book applications and re-open them.
As suggeted in another discussion by Ernie Stamper on May 15 2009 in the «Can't send an email to a group»:
«In Mail Preferences/Composing, select to Show members of a group, and then compose a message (no need to send for this test) using the group address -- do the 9 addresses show in the message header? If so, then report the name of the provider of the SMTP you are using. It might be that they do not allow the Group in the To -- when working correctly, the recipient sees only Undesignated Recipients in the header.»
I'm using Mac OS X 10.7.5 and Mail 5.3 (1283) on an iMac 2009
Can't send an email to a group.

Hi Priyanka,
I can't get it working. I get this error:
2007/03/25 17:23:00] Error in evaluate <from> expression at line "98". The result is empty for the XPath expression : "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')".
[2007/03/25 17:23:00] "{http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/}selectionFailure" has been thrown.less
- <selectionFailure xmlns="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2003/03/business-process/">
- <part name="summary">
<summary>
empty variable/expression result.
xpath variable/expression expression "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')" is empty at line 98, when attempting reading/copying it.
Please make sure the variable/expression result "ids:getUserProperty('esbMailTo', 'mail', 'jazn.com')" is not empty.
</summary>
</part
In users-properties.xml I have this:
<userObject>
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     <title>Loan Agent 1</title>
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        <timeZone>America/Los_Angeles</timeZone>
     <languagePreference>en-US</languagePreference>
     <notificationPreferences>Mail</notificationPreferences>
     </userObject> Any ideas?
Regards Pete

POP3 Mail Problems

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ONLY One of the accounts keeps asking me for my password.
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i kept having problems with mail asking for my yahoo password. tried keychain repair, removing the account and adding it back, removing the plist file and even reinstalled 10.5 (not because of this) and the problem persist. So I went to my yahoo account settings and in to the Pop settings. There, listed were the exact configuration specs. I referenced those against my current configuration (which was Apple's automatic configuration) and noticed the inbound and outbound servers were missing the word "plus" in front of their respective servers addresses. Entered the correct address, and so far so good. It hasn't asked me for my password in over a week now so I think I'm safe. I'm not sure if you're having trouble with your yahoo account or if you even have one. But if you've used the automatic configuration you might want to double check it against something documented from your email provider. Hope this helps. Cheers!

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If i have my pop 3 mail coming to gmail, but i still want to check my pop 3 separately from my blackberry, how do I fix this problem? I don't want my gmail on my blackberry to get emails from my pop3 accounts.

I solved this dilemma of getting things twice this way:
I forward the pop3 to my Gmail, because I like keeping things organized in one place and gmail works for me. When I set up the forward, though, I SKIP THE INBOX on gmail, and send it directly to a folder (or apply a label, in gmail's terminology). So it arrives on my phone from the pop3 account as soon as it comes in; gmail grabs every hour or so and there's a delay, but it eventually ends up in the gmail account, but I don't get a second notification from gmail because it's gone directly into the folder (been labeled) skipping the inbox.
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Upgrade install to 10.5 Mail problems solution

Ok, I am posting this after 2 days of research why Mail behaves crazily after I installed 10.5 via update. I tried archive and install as well with same Mail problems resulting.
Now maybe this wont work for everybody, but it solved all my problems like a charm resulting in Mail working perfectly now.
After one whole annoying day behind the forums I just thought I should post it.
The basic problem was that my Mail didn't want to receive messages while the progress bars were just spinning infinite. Quitting Mail had to be done via Force Quite to stop it.
First thing i noticed was that if I open "*Previous recipients*" panel I get the everlasting spinning beach ball.
So I gathered that there must be some problem in the communication between Mail and Address Book. I backuped the Address Book database and deleted everything I could find connected with Address Book.
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Address Book now contained no addresses. I opened Mail, and bingo everything started working, opening "previous recipients" showed 0 contacts and I starter using Mail without problems.
To finish the thing, just backup Address Book ad voila.
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Same thing here. All printers gone. Archive & Install 10.5 on a 2.33Ghz MBP. Cannot find my network printers. Tried everything I can think of. When I boot from my external drive (10.4.9) everything works great. Leopard also ate my company VPN and won't give it back. Any help would be welcome.

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MacBook Pro Printing & Mail Problems

My stepdad's Macbook Pro just came Fed Ex today. Amazing yesterday, it was in Shanghi.
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Apple support was useless. The person barely could speak English and the recommended solution was to re-install OSX. How could that help, I only had the computer for an hour and a half.
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http://www.fixamacsoftware.com/software/index.html.
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Alerta An error occurred with the pop3 mail server. Mail server responded;

Boa tarde, ao receber email´s aparece a mensagem:
Alerta An error occurred with the pop3 mail server. Mail server responded;
Não utilizo gmail nem yahoo, outros usuários recebem normalmente os emails.
PAra enviar está normal sem problemas.
Obrigado.

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Need Some Brain Storming Help WIth a Long Distance Mail Problem

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It looks like Mail has reset its preferences, including the account settings. What follows is a more thorough explanation that should allow you to determine whether that’s really what happened and what your options would be in that case. I’ll provide the full instructions I usually provide to solve this problem when having direct access to the computer, even though you may find some of them not practical or unnecessary.
Under some circumstances (e.g. lack of available disk space, filesystem corruption, repeated crashes), Mail may discard the current ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist preferences file and create a new one. This file is where all the account settings are stored. As a result, all the non-.Mac account settings are lost. If you have a .Mac account, however, that account would appear to have been preserved because Mail would set it up automatically using the System Preferences > .Mac settings — but may result in a different .Mac account being automatically set up if for some reason the System Preferences > .Mac settings differ from what until then were the Mail account settings...
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There are at least three ways to restore the account settings:
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(2) Set up your mail accounts again (you may want to quit Mail and trash the new com.apple.mail.plist first to start over). If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done. You’ll also have to re-configure some of the Mail > Preferences settings. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
(3) Mail may have renamed the old preferences file to com.apple.mail.plist.saved. If that’s the case, you may try trashing the new com.apple.mail.plist and renaming the old com.apple.mail.plist.saved back to com.apple.mail.plist. Again, be sure Mail isn’t running while doing this. Given the circumstances, there exists the possibility that com.apple.mail.plist.saved became corrupt, but that often is not the case and the settings can usually be restored by just renaming the file back to com.apple.mail.plist.
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Major Mail Problems!

Hi all, (Mac Mail 1.3.11 (v622) ) OSX10.3.9
i've been having some major mac Mail problems for a while now, with no clear understanding on how to resolve them. It may be the case that i am managing my mail all wrong, so any correctional advice would be welcome too.
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All email clients have limits and the recommended mailbox size limit for Jaguar and Panther Mail is 1 GB and for Tiger Mail, 2 GB. This problem is much more common with Jaguar and Panther Mail and has all but been eliminated with Tiger Mail which uses a significantly different mbox filing structure for each mailbox.
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Since you regularly receive and send a lot of graphic file attachments, you should utilize user created "On My Mac" location mailboxes to sort received and sent messages by category. This can be done on a monthly basis with the emphasis on not allowing a mailbox to approach or exceed anywhere near 1 GB in size and it is also a good idea to use the Rebuild Mailbox function on the most active mailboxes on a regular basis - once a month or so depending on activity.
Before upgrading to Tiger, I didn't allow any mailbox to exceed 500 MB or so in size and used the Rebuild Mailboxes function on the most active mailboxes once a month or so and never experienced this problem.
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Move the INBOX.mbox to the Desktop.
When re-launching Mail, a new and empty INBOX.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder. This will allow the Mail.app to function properly again with this mailbox and not risk losing any new messages received with this account while working on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop to recover the existing messages.
Control-click on the old INBOX.mbox moved to the Desktop and at the menu window that appears, select Show Package Contents.
List the package content file names and size of each providing this information here. This information is required to determine the next steps to take to recover the existing messages.

Mail Problem with multipart/mixed Content, "empty mails" via IMAP

I do need some help.
Here is my setup. I have a OSX Mountain Lion Server with the mail service running. fetchmail is collecting mail from a pop account. I have two Mac clients - one with Outlook for Mac, one with Apple Mail,
Everything is fine exept...
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- Is it a settings problem in fetchmail?
I don't know... I think it is a settings problem in the main.cf - but I don't know what to do.
Can anybody help???
Kind regards,
Robert.

Problem solved!
It was a bug in fetchmail. Try out the version 6.3.26. You have to compile fetchmail yourself... it is not a great thing. And everything is working.
http://developer.berlios.de/project/shownotes.php?group_id=1824&release_id=19356
Robert

Major mail problem: "One or more recipient address was invalid"

Hello,
I had my iPhone 3G for 2 weeks now. I have been experiencing some major e-mail problems - basically, I cannot send e-mails to anyone except myself. When I type in my address (the same one that I send an e-mail from) it all goes well. When I type any other valid one, it does not get through. I keep on getting a pop-up message "Cannot send mail: One or more recipient address was invalid" - even though the addresses *are, actually, valid*.
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I'm using a POP account. Still - I can send to myself, can't send anywhere else.
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And yeah, I have the latest software.
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