Problems replying and redirecting mail

Whenever I try to reply or redirect an email, I have to wait a few minutes watching the spinning beach ball. I click the reply or redirect button, but of the original email, only the reply address and the subject come up. This is repeatedly happening. When I tried to send the blank page (to myself) because the content had not shown, Mail crashed and I sent the report Apple which itself took a couple of minutes of beachball watching.
Sometimes however the original email comes up immediately. This just happened with absolutely no change to the system or applications running, nothing quitted and my browser (Omniweb) was still open.
I have 2GB of ram although I have a dozen menubar items open from startup. I'm planning on upgrading to 3GB as I believe lack of memory could be the problem.
Have you had similar experiences or do you know the answer?

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 (Parallels in particular, if you have that installed) and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
Some people have reported that in their case the problem was a font issue. Take a look at the following article:
Font Management in Mac OS X Tiger and Panther
Make sure that the required fonts are installed in the right places and enabled in Font Book. You may also use Font Book to validate fonts and resolve duplicates.

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1) When I reply to an email starting from the inbox , the from is properly placed. Let's say I get an email in my company's inbox, I reply and the from is selected as my company email.
But when I move that message to a folder, and then I reply to that email starting from the new folder, the from is not the right one, but it takes another random email from one of my 3 accounts (most usually the first one but I'm not sure). So I must manually change the email sender to the proper one everytime. This happens with all of my 3 accounts
2) I have 3 SMTP Server settings to send mail. The company's SMTP server, iCloud and my ISP SMTP server for the free account.
My company's SMTP server setting uses standard ports, password authentication, but doesn't use SSL.
Sometimes when replying I find the email not leaving the outbox, with an error. Then I go and check the SMTP server settings, and I find the SSL setting ON. I turn it OFF and it works again. But sometimes it goes ON again , randomly, and I can't figure out how to stop this weird behaviour.
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Kind regards

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Hi,
I am not able to to reply to emails using yahoo mail configured in ipod touch, I have this message : Cannot Send Mail The connection to the outgoing server "(null)" failed.
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I had the same problem with Yahoo! Mail but even worse I found that I simply could not send any mail at all. The problem only arose this week after installing the new (1.1.4) software upgrade.
I had originally set up Yahoo! Mail using the option given on the Mail screen and it worked perfectly until the upgrade, which may just have been coincidental, I suppose. But I was then unable to send any mail at all. I deleted the e-mail account and then reapplied it but not by opting for the Yahoo! option on Mail and instead set it up as an 'Other' POP account, being sure to deactivate SSL and instead go for Password verification. From what I gather this is just how you would set up a Yahoo! Mail account for MacMail and this basically applies the advice that BT gives for Yahoo! Mail users with a Mac.
It then worked fine, but I lost the really cool real-time sync with Yahoo! Mail which I had had previously.
I have since managed to get Yahoo! Mail working again properly by simply trying and trying and trying to reapply the account as a true Yahoo! Mail account on the Mail icon and eventually it gave in to my dogged persistence.
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Unable to reply and forward mail from discussion services in webcenter spac

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I am Mustaque.
Currently i m working on oracle webcenter 11g. I am not able to reply and forward discussion topics from webcenter spaces. Its throwing error msg :
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Have you gone through the post install steps?
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I am running server 10.5.8 and have had amazingly few issues or crashes. I'm a novice, know zero about UNIX, but have a server for a small office that i set up and has run without issues for years. It hosts our website and email and some basic file sharing and ftp.
This past week, I tried to add a user in Workgroup Manager, that is basically just an email user. Worked fine in Workgroup Manager, and activated the account and enabled email as both pop and imap. i also deleted some users that are no longer with us.
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no they did not show up there either.
i opened up users and groups and just tried adding the user to the access list.
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When I first got my Imac I transfer all data from my older machine running OS X. Mail worked just fine for a couple of weeks then it started having the same problem I have now. I tried rebuilding and throwing away the preference but no luck so I gave up and reinstalled Mail which caused me to lose my emails and accounts. I set up everything again and things ran fine for the past year. Now I’m having the same problem.
My emails accounts are POP. I have no problem receiving them or reading them. When you click the “reply” or “reply all” buttons you get no response. You can click “forward” and type in a email address but then no further action can be taken. When you click “new message” it will only let you type 2 characters in the message and then beeps at you. I made no changes to the system before this happen. Everything was working fine one day and the next day the problems arrived. Any suggestions?
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What you say about reinstalling Mail, besides being a bad idea, doesn’t make sense to me. Reinstalling Mail cannot have caused you to lose anything — actually, that’s precisely why reinstalling Mail is rarely appropriate or useful to solve a problem.
If you lost your mail it has to be because you did something else you shouldn’t have done either, such as deleting the accounts or something like that. Or maybe nothing has really been deleted and your old mail is just inaccessible as a result of something you did...
Anyway, the problem you describe is caused by some Launch Services cache or preferences corruption that affects the built-in spell checker. The following article describes how to manually reset Launch Services — the notes at the bottom of the article also provide information about the side effects of deleting each of the files involved:
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If you prefer using a cache cleaning utility instead of following the manual procedure described in the previous article, take a look at this other article for general troubleshooting and cache-cleaning procedures. Actually, you should also verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described there:
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption
The most appropriate utility for this particular problem probably is Tiger Cache Cleaner, but you may also want to consider other utilities, such as OnyX, or Cache Out X, which are free. Whatever utility you choose, be sure to read this first:
Side effects of System cache cleaning
As an example, this is how you should proceed with OnyX:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Launch OnyX and enter your administrator password.
3. Go to Maintenance > Reset and check LaunchServices database.
4. Un-check any other pre-checked options.
5. Click the Execute button.
6. Restart the computer.
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BTW, after having verified/repaired the startup disk (as described above), if the version of the system software on the Install disc used to reinstall Mail is earlier than what you’re using now (and only in that case), then you must also reinstall the Combo Update for the type of computer and the version of Mac OS X you’re using, to bring Mail back in sync with the rest of the system:
About the Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo Update
Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo Update for PowerPC
Mac OS X 10.4.9 Combo Update for Intel
After installing the Combo Update, the computer may restart twice and the first restart may take several minutes. This is normal.
You may want to take a look at the following articles for guidelines on how to properly install system updates:
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Reply and forward not working in full screen mail app

In the full screen version of the Mail application in Lion I can't reply or forward any messages. I have to go back to the old view in order to respond to mail. Is anyone else having this problem and if so, is there a fix? The full screen apps and new mail program were a major reason I upgraded..

I regularly experience the same problem. It also occurs with Compose.
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Automated Reply and Delete of Selected Messages in Mail

First the situation, I do support work and have been receiving direct e-mails for support requests for the last 14 years. With additional people in the group, I want to force people to send e-mail to our helpdesk e-mail address to get support so other group members can provide assistance. Of course, these are old habits to break. I've been sending a canned message stored in Stickies saying something like "Your e-mail has been deleted, go to the helpdesk for support", but would like to automate that process.
I found that in Entourage, you can create a rule, not have it active, and then manually run that rule by selecting "Message -> Apply Rule -> <Rule-Name>". Unfortunately, I don't normally have Entourage open.
How would one use Rules in Mail.app, Automator, and/or AppleScript to accomplish this? I looked around at the default actions in Automator for Mail, but didn't really find what I thought would work. I also searched around for new actions to Mail, but still didn't find a way to reply-to and delete selected messages.
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When I try to reply in Mail, I hear the sound of a new window opening
What do you mean? There is no such sound in Mail...
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
The problem you have in Mail is usually caused by some Launch Services cache or preferences corruption. The following article describes how to manually reset Launch Services -- the notes at the bottom of the article also provide information about the side effects of deleting each of the files involved:
Resetting Launch Services
If you prefer using a cache cleaning utility instead of following the manual procedure described in the previous article, this other article provides links to some utilities that can be used for troubleshooting and cache cleaning:
Resolving Disk, Permission, and Cache Corruption
It seems that the most appropriate utility for solving this particular problem is Tiger Cache Cleaner, but you may also want to consider other utilities, such as OnyX, or Cache Out X, which are free. Whatever utility you choose, be sure to read this first:
Side effects of System cache cleaning
As an example, this is how you should proceed with OnyX:
1. Quit all applications.
2. Launch OnyX and enter your administrator password.
3. Click Maintenance. In the Reset section, check LaunchServices database.
4. You may uncheck any other pre-checked options if you wish.
5. Click the Execute button.
6. Restart the computer.

G-Mail and Apple Mail problems

I have had tons of problems with my Mail app and Gmail. A window pops open and asks for my password and then does not have any effect on allowing retrieval from the server. Often times I cannot download my mail from gmail at all....have you had similar problems??
OK....
this gmail/mac mail problem caused me a ton of suffering.....but I think I have it figured out....
I think the problem stems from the fact that if you use gmail through a browser and send messages, for example if you are away from your computer, then those sent messages eventually get stored as new conversations. When you return to using your mail app the messages you sent will appear in your inbox as new mail, sent by you.
I am not quite sure how the next step happens but after a lot of fidgeting what I found was that, after erasing my inbox in gmail(this is probably not necessary), after backing up the messages, I went into gmail's preferences and in POP and Forwarding I selected allow POP for all mail. What happened next was unusual....even though the entire mail box on the gmail server was empty.....when Mail started to get the messages it showed that there were over 300 messages to download. The interesting thing was that most of these messages were sent by me to someone else and had an attachment.
After downloading and erasing all these old messages that were causing this case of Mail constipation I went into Mail preferences>>>accounts>>>advanced and clicked the box "remove copy from server after retrieving message" option and then "right away"in the pull down menu. I also clicked the "remove now" button to clear all previously downloaded messages from the server. I noticed on the Mail app that this happened almost immediatly as Mail went about removing all these old messages from the server.
Since this I have not had any problems. I believe that the problem lies somwhere in the way that Gmail creates "conversations". Somehow sent mail gets spirited away in some nook on the server and accumulates, eventually causing a case of constipation. These backed up messages somehow cause the Mail app to not be able to retrieve new messages. If you find this happening do as I have and see what effect it has. Allow your Mail app to down load all the messages it "sees" and keep an eye on what they are(this may take several hours). Often they will be old and previously sent/downloaded mail. Erase them and make sure that they are erased from the server using the advanced option in Mail preferences.
Maybe someone with a more technical background can explain this phenomenon better.
Good Luck.

"A search for Mail AND Gmail in these forums (or a
search for just Gmail restricted to this particular
forum) could have saved you a lot of time and would
have provided you a better understanding of what's
going on (note, it should be "Gmail", not "G-Mail")"
I wonder what the purpose of this reply of yours could be. If it is that something I've said has upset you, I don't know what it could be and I really wouldn't care if it wasn't because your statements could mislead other users into misunderstanding how Gmail actually works. There is nothing in the post that originated this thread that has not already been discussed recently in this forum, except for false assumptions that I'll have to clarify now.
First, choosing a setting in Preferences... > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server after retrieving message has no effect on a Gmail account, absolutely none, no matter whether you choose "Right away", or "After a month" or anything else. Yes, Mail will no longer see those messages, but neither would it had you chosen to leave the messages on the server instead. The messages are simply no longer available there for any POP mail client after having downloaded them. The messages are still on the server, however, and you can read them with a web browser. That's how Gmail works.
Second, clicking Remove now in that same preference pane in Mail has no effect on a Gmail account either, absolutely none. The reason this doesn't work is the same as before. The messages on the server have been hidden by Gmail after downloading them and POP mail clients can no longer see them, nor delete them, nor do anything with them, until you go to the Gmail web site and configure your mail account to make all messages still there available for POP download again.
Third, the only way to get a message deleted from the server with a Gmail account is to log into your account with a web browser. Now, if you want your messages to be deleted immediately after being downloaded by Mail, you can accomplish that by choosing the appropriate setting in the web account settings page -- and you are limited to the options provided there. Mail's own settings will continue to be completely and utterly ignored by Gmail.
Now, had you searched these forums as I suggested or just followed the links I provided in my first reply would certainly have saved both you and me and probably anybody else that chose to read this thread a lot of time.
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Mail reply and forwarding not working

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I spoke to Mac support about 10 days ago and we created a new acct. and imported the emails. Things worked for awhile, but the same problem has started again.
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Hello nina:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Try rebuilding your mailbox(s).
Barry

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Hello John
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Hi folks, lots of syncing and e-mail problems here:
Syncing: My phone won't sync iCal (it tells me my phone is disconnected), my safari bookmarks or my email accounts. I've been through the threads here, tried resetting iSync, tried deleting calendars and resetting to 10 days instead of 30 -- still no luck. For e-mail, initially iTunes saw the e-mail accounts but did not sync theml. I tried the one-time advance settings and now it's not even seeing the accounts and still not syncing them. and for Safari, no luck with the bookmarks at all even thought the check-box is checked.
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Test in a new user and try sending info in each direction. If it works - then your phone works fine.
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On Friday, running under 10.4.5, Mail started acting strangely (it would have the gray wheel around my main accounts -- from two different servers). I would have to force quit. At the same time, address book stopped opening (it would require a force quit as well) and iCal similarly began to have problems (it would not accept new events and would also require a force quit). I upgraded to 10.4.6 and now Mail (2.08) will not open at all and the other problems continue. I have verified the permissions. there is plenty of free space. I am not keen to reinstall and since the problem occurred without any other apparent problem, I wonder if anyone has a solution.
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I'm having the exact same problems -- plus Safari is repeatedly crashing. Strangely, it's only happening on one side of the two user set up!!
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On Friday, running under 10.4.5, Mail started acting
strangely (it would have the gray wheel around my
main accounts -- from two different servers). I
would have to force quit. At the same time, address
book stopped opening (it would require a force quit
as well) and iCal similarly began to have problems
(it would not accept new events and would also
require a force quit). I upgraded to 10.4.6 and now
Mail (2.08) will not open at all and the other
problems continue. I have verified the permissions.
there is plenty of free space. I am not keen to
reinstall and since the problem occurred without any
other apparent problem, I wonder if anyone has a
solution.
MacBook Pro
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I have been trying to set-up an iCloud e-mail account but keep getting the messages that it cannot set-up the account.
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Welcome to the Apple Community SupportLesley9119.
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