Problems downloading e-mails from a POP account

Hi... my emails are being downloaded in the iphone but when i connect my laptop and open outlook those e-mails are not downloaded into my computer. Then, when i try to open the emails in my iphone, it says " Message has not been downloaded from server" , so I cannot forward the content again into my laptop.

You need to check the settings on your iPhone to see if you have it set to delete the messages from the server after you pick them up from the phone. One of the things about POP3 mail is it is designed for access from one mail program. In other words, if you access from one device. If you set the iPhone to leave the mail on the server, it will be available for you to check from your home computer/laptop.
Hope this helps you.

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Hello,
I have a problem with Mail, as I can perfectly send but not receive Mails from my Pop-Account. The settings are fine and the problem came up suddenly. When I try to get mail from Pop-Account the application starts to load, shows the number of mails in the account, begins to count up the size and then stops. I can even see the title of the mails by opening the window of the Account, but Mail does not download them.
I would be really pleased if anybody could give me an advice what to do.
Thanks a lot an greeting from a German in Bahrain
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Hello and thanks to both of you,
I am using Mail 3.1 and the Account is coming from Strato, a German provider. Before, I had no problems neither with receiving nor with sending, but suddenly it stoped. I tried another account (gmail) that worked without any problem. Also your advice with SSl and the ports did not help . I Also phoned the Helpline of the provider Strato without any result . Also the place does not change - it neither works at home nor at work.
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I have a IPod Touch with the latest software installed (I believe that is 3.1.3).
I have 2 email accounts which I use, a MobileMe account which I am not having any problems with, but my POP account is having problems sending emails. I can receive emails just fine but when I send an email from my POP account I get the error "cannot send email - sender address was invalid". I have deleted the account and set it up as "Other" with all the same settings that are on my Mac but It still does not work. By the way the outgoing server is smtp.west.cox.net if that makes any difference.
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Thank you, Baforer. Between your solution and another person having the same problem, I was able to solve mine, an error message saying "Sender address is invalid" when I know my email address WAS correct.
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Hi Folks,
My Mail app is configured to download POP mail from my Gmail, Yahoo, and personal domain accounts, so that I can read it all in one place, and have a copy of messages on my computer.
I tried .Mac for a while last year, but because these are all POP accounts, the synchronization essentially meant that the same messages were downloaded to each Mac I used. At least, that's how it worked for me.
I now have to reconfigure one of my Macs, a PowerBook, due to a hard drive crash. And I'm thinking: If I want to use Mail on my Powerbook and my MacBook, would I essentially accomplish the same thing as .Mac synchronization by making sure each copy of Mail is configured to leave my messages (Gmail, Yahoo, personal) on the server? Wouldn't I then just have the same messages downloaded to each machine whenever I logged into Mail?
Just trying to wrap my head around the most efficient way to set this up. This approach wouldn't exactly be efficient, but it seems to me the most thorough without having IMAP available, and would allow me to read and respond to messages regardless of the computer I'm using at any given time. Does this make sense? Thanks for any insight.
Michael

would I essentially accomplish the same thing as .Mac synchronization by making sure each copy of Mail is configured to leave my messages (Gmail, Yahoo, personal) on the server? Wouldn't I then just have the same messages downloaded to each machine whenever I logged into Mail?
Yes: this is exactly how I do it, except that I set Mail on each machine to delete messages from the server after a week. You do this each account, in the 'Advanced' tab, and you have the choice of after 1 day, 1 week, 1 month or when messages are removed from the inbox. This prevent you clogging up the server, and as long as you use each machine within the specified period you will get all your messages downloaded to each one. Of course on one machine you won't know if a message has been read or answered on another, nor will you have a record of sent messages on other machines unless you Bcc the answers to yourself.
I have it set up to Bcc automatically (using QuicKeys but you could do it manually of course) so that each machine sends to an email address specific to that machine, from which it is forwarded to the main account: then using a rule that if a message comes from the machine it was sent on it's deleted, otherwise it's moved to the 'Sent' folder.

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This is a Microslop proprietary problem/bug when the sender of a message uses Outlook as their email client and uses RTF for message composition, and especially when sent thru an Exchange Server.
http://www.pchell.com/support/winmaildat.shtml
Funny that Microslop names this document - "How to prevent the Winmail.dat file from being sent to Internet Users" as if those not using Outlook as their email client and not thru an exchange server are from another planet or something. This is MS proprietary garbage they have known about for a very long time but refuse to do anything about.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138053/
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Popped 3 messages from my account to iphone (3.0). Deleted them on iphone. Then popped from my computer from the same account, and should have seen the mail on the computer. Advanced mail settings on the phone have all mailboxes set to iphone local, and push was on. Nothing should ever be removed from the server.

I have Deleted Messages under Advanced set to Never, but do not have anything available to change about Server settings under Incoming settings - just SSL, Authentication, IMAP Path Prefix, and Server Port.
As already provided, this is an IMAP account.
All server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account. You can select to store the account's Drafts, Trash, and Sent mailboxes on the server or locally, but the account's Inbox mailbox is stored on the server and cannot be changed.
When deleting a message from the account's Inbox mailbox with an IMAP account, the message is removed from the account's Inbox mailbox on the server and transferred to the account's Trash mailbox. This will be reflected automatically when checking the account's Inbox mailbox with the email client used on your computer for accessing the account since all server stored mailboxes with an IMAP account are kept synchronized with the server automatically with each email client used to access the account.
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I have several pop3 e-mail accounts set up in Mail. Messages are retrieved perfectly, but though I delete them in Mail they remain in the original account (ie: optonline). I need to then log into the pop3 account and delete them again in order to empty the originating mailbox.
IMac Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Advanced tab for the account preferences, is "Remove copy from server after retrieving a message" selected and if so, what is your selection below for removing messages from the server when downloaded by the Mail.app?

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In the past couple of days I have been unable to recieve any incoming mail, but I'm able to send emails out! There is nothing wrong with my actual server, so I'm not sure what is wrong with my mac.

I'm thinking this is an authentication or port issue. Is this how you set it up?
http://www.startlogic.com/support/tutorials/view_tutorial.bml?kbid=7958
The receiving email ports are:
IMAP is port 143
IMAP-SSL is port 993
POP is port 110
POP-SSL is port 995
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Problem sending via Mail from my GoogleMail account.

I set up my Mail account yesterday (with my gmail account) and it functions perfectly but for the fact that I cannot send any outgoing mail- I can only receive.
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I'm guessing that I've set up the outgoing server wrong. Does anyone know the correct thing to type into the server to make it work?
Any help greatly appreciated.
Glenn.

Hi Glennbm: This is a simple check for your issue. I notice in your post you have quoted "'Cannot send the message using server smpt.googlemail.com' If the outgoing server is input as shown that may be your issue. I believe it should be "smtp" not "smpt"
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Mail hang when getting email from multiple POP accounts

I'm posting this issue again.
Mail hangs while getting new mail from multiple POP accounts almost every time. When it does, only Force Quit can quit it.
The following DID NOT fix the hang:
- Reconstructing all mail boxes
- Exporting, deleting and reimporting all mail boxes
- Disabling all rules
- Deleting anti-spam history
- Deleting all emails from all mail boxes
Testing each POP account individually while putty the other two offline works fine.
I also noticed that sometimes the new mail counter in Inbox displays 2-4 new messages while there is no new ones. Switching boxes/folders and back to Inbox fixes it.
The POP accounts are:
One plain text POP
One secure POP
One GMail POP
Can anyone help?

You’re welcome.
I did try to clear the junk mail preferences
The Junk Mail preferences cannot be “cleared”. What do you mean?
it crashes almost every single time.
It doesn’t crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly). It freezes (i.e. becomes unresponsive), right?
I transfered my data to a Mac Mini. I had the same exact problem on it too!
so it seems it has nothing to do with the OS plugins or the setup I have.
Well, that would depend on what exactly does “I transfered my data” mean...
Try first disabling all the rules in Preferences > Rules AND the junk filter in Preferences > Junk Mail. If the problem persists, proceed as follows.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

The past few days my Mail app has started downloading multiple copies of e-mails from all pop servers. This is only happening on my Macbook not other macs. Deleting mail from server does not help. I ran ClamXav found 2 viruses deleted problem continues

opps. Long title there... The past few days my Mail app has started downloading multiple copies of e-mails from all pop servers. This is only happening on my Macbook not other macs. Deleting mail from server does not help. I ran ClamXav found 2 viruses deleted those. Checked for software update and installed suggested downloads. Problem still contintues. Any suggestions?

Folks,
even after having repaired the inbox folder under "properties" a few times, I still had some e-mails where the contents are different from the subject line.
In other words in the inbox there are two e-mails: one with subject line "abc", and another one with subject line "def".
When I display the e-mail with the subject line "abc", the contents are from the e-mail with the subject line "def" in the in-basket.
What else can be done to correct this problem?
Thanks and best regards.
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Switzerland
[email protected]

TS3276 can't download mail from windows live account. I have deleted and re-set up the account but still won't work. I can go online and access with no problem or get mail from other apple devices.

Not able to get mail from windows live account.

Firefox can find plugins in several locations, but Firefox 21 changed the location of the "shared" plugin folder so older installers like the Microsoft Windows Media Plugin no longer drop the DLL file in the correct location.
There apparently are two ways to address this:
(1) Change a Firefox preference so that Firefox checks the old location. Here's how:
(i) In a new tab, type or paste '''about:config''' in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(ii) In the filter box, type or paste '''plugins''' and pause while the list is filtered
(iii) Double-click '''plugins.load_appdir_plugins''' to switch its value from false to true.
This will take effect after you restart Firefox.
(2) Copy the plugins folder to the new location. Here's how on Win 7 64-bit:
Open a Windows Explorer window to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox
Right-click and copy the '''Plugins''' folder
Double-click the '''browser''' folder to open it
Right-click and paste
Right-click the new copy of '''Plugins''' and rename it to '''plugins'''
After restarting Firefox, the plugins in that folder should now be available.
''Edit: I suggest just doing #1.''

Problem Removing Junk Mail from POP Server

Is there a way to automatically remove junk mail from the POP server when I delete the Junk within the Apple Mail application?
The Mail application Junk filter is working pretty well for me on my primary MacBook Pro system. My inbox is mostly junk free and I like that I can check the Junk folder to see if any "good" e-mail got snared before deleting the junk from the junk folder.
However, "Erasing Junk Mail" from the junk mail folder does NOT erase the junk from my POP server. So if I check the same e-mail account on another computer or my Treo, I have endure the same junk messages again which can quickly mount up to 100+ messages over the course of a day.
I can manually delete messages from the POP server by using the Get Info window in the Shortcuts/Actions Menu at the bottom left of the Mail browser.
However, I have to manually identify and select the junk messages from all the mail on the POP server to delete it which is both tedious and time consuming.
Isn't there some way instruct the program to automatically delete Junk from the server when it's deleted from the browser?
It seems like it would be an obvious feature.
I've looked for some way to do this including apple scripts but I can't find a way to do it.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.

michellzappa,
All of my e-mail providers have some sort of web based access for my accounts. They identify, segregate and prevent any message marked as bounce from being downloaded to my inbox. Is this what you are describing as redundant?
Mail Scripts 2.7.10 by Andreas Amann, provides an excellent compilation of mail scripts.
I would advise that you create a new post with the title. "Can I write an applescript to automatically clean out messages on server every hour?" in the AppleScript Forum.
;~)

I have a problem. When I start to sync music to my iPod touch, you have to enter the password of your account. I downloaded the game from the general account, and do not always know the password. He writes that if I do not login, then the game will be era

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If they are Tunes purchased music you have to sing into the account that purchased them.
Is this the iTunes library/computer you sync with? You can rally only "sync" with one iTunes library/computer.However, yo can manually manage music and videos among different libraries/computer. See the manual method of:
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