Slow Outgoing Email after 10.5.4

Two weeks ago, I downloaded and installed the OS 10.5.4 Upgrade. Since I upgraded, the outgoing email on both my user account and on my wife's user account take between 27 and 37 seconds to go out, even if they are one-word messages with no attachments. I have spoken with my ISP and tried sending an email using Thunderbird. It shoots out a message in about a second - just like Mail used to do, so the ISP isn't at fault! Using Mail, the message does go out - eventually!
Trashing my own mail plist wouldn't account for the fact that this Mail slowdown is global on our Mac.
When I run Activity Monitor with Mail, I see that Mail is trying to handshake with my ISP for most of the time, but when the handshake has been made, the message goes out immediately.
I have no problem receiving email promptly and my Internet upload and download speeds are just fine. I have fixed permissions, but that does nothing.
Everything points an accusing finger at Mail after the 10.5.4 Upgrade.
Before I do an Erase and Install of Leopard, does anybody have a possible solution?

I was also observing an inordinate delay for sending Mail messages, which led me to this thread. Thank you for offering the solution to manually add the DNS addresses to the computer's System Preferences. That did the trick for me.
In my case, I located these two IP addresses (primary and secondary) in my router, which in turn had retrieved them from the ISP as a function of DHCP. I wonder if earlier versions of Apple's O/S populated these values in System Preferences or whether this behavior has more to do with changes (or a bug) in Mail itself.

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Slow outgoing emails

HI all....
I have been experiencing slow outgoing emails with it hanging at the very end when just about to send... ever since I upgraded oto 10.8.3 recently.... anyone else experiencing the same issue....
Can I reset my Mail app back to factory settings without ruining all my VIP favs, smart mailboxes etc..?....
I just wanna try and fix it that way...?
My service provider setup the account on Outlook and all working and performing fine.
Regards,
Anthony

If no change after the standard troubleshooting steps - powering the iPhone off and on, a reset which is similar to a computer restart, restoring the iPhone with iTunes from the iPhone's backup, and restoring as a new iPhone or not from the backup, make an appointment at an Apple Store if there is one nearby for the iPhone to be checked or a hardware problem.

Slow outgoing email

Incoming mail is as quick as ever, but outgoing mail, even small or short emails take at least 30 seconds now, using either my iMac or Macbook. It seems to have happened since I changed routers after the previous one failed. My ISP help line couldn't help - they don't think it's the router settings, I've checked settings in Mail preferences, I've deleted old disused accounts & can't think what else to do. It's not an enormous problem but I would like it to be as fast as it was previously. There was a recent software update but I think that was just to Safari, nothing to do with Mail. Connection doctor shows the SMTP accounts succeeding but taking a long time. Thanks for any help.
Janet

Janet, the genius bar couldn't help because my ISP blocks access except from clients' computers using their home wi-fi! Apple said Time Warner had been a consistent thorn in their side this way. You can't test email from the store, only from home!
Carlo, my only NON-apple account (I have two personal accounts) is a google account. So "Svynchronize all accounts" does not appear under the Mailbox menu, only "synchronize google."
Anyway, Janet and Carlo, both: thank you. I finally fixed the issue myself, by going back to the account settings and calling Time Warner. Turns out, one of their techs had long ago told me how to adjust the settings when I'm away from home, and I'd failed to RE-adjust them once back.The change was instantaneous once I made the minor corrections. So nice to have the instant WOOSH of outgoing mail back again :-)
And nice, too, to know there are helpful folks like you on the forum.
Louise

Does anyone else "lose" all outgoing email after shutting off an Exchange account?

I have an iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.1. A few times now I have experienced the following phenomenon and hope that someone can offer a resolution. This didn't happen on my iPhone 4 with iOS 5.
I have mutliple email accounts - icloud, gmail x 3, hotmail, comcast pop mail and a corporate Exchange account. I don't usually want to get Exchange mail on my phone but sometimes I have to turn it on. When I do turn on the Mail through the Exchange account, everything is fine. However, once I deactivate Mail in the Exchange account, the phone will no longer send mail from any account properly. This happens in a completely quiet manner - there is no "Sending" bar at bottom of the mail screen, the messages aren't stored in the Sent or Outgoing mail folder for any of the other accounts. There is no warning that the messages aren't being delivered. They apparently just cease to exist. The only way to resolve the issue is to reboot the phone - then everything goes back to normal.
Any idea how to prevent this from happening?
Thanks!

Try this:
Go to System Preferences - Bluetooth. Delete the keyboard from the list of devices by pressing the "-" button. Take the batteries out of the keyboard and reinsert them. In Bluetooth Preferences press the '+" button to add the new device. If the keyboard begins to pair, click the word "pair" and type in the passcode. Press return. The keyboard is now paired.
If the mouse is not pairing, try this: shut down the computer completely, unplug any USB mice, then turn off the power to the bluetooth mouse. ONce the computer starts up again, wait for the pop-up looking for a mouse. Turn on the power to the bluetooth mouse. It should work normally now.

How can I NOT have my outgoing emails accumulate on gmail?

I'm using Thunderbird with gmail via POP3, not IMAP. I want to just grab the emails, download them to my PC, and delete them from gmail. That part works great. But with both TB and my previous Outlook 2000, my outgoing emails end up staying on the gmail server. I see no control in TB nor on the gmail site to say "delete outgoing emails after sending" like is done when receiving.
Is this just the nature of email systems?
So every couple months I log onto gmail manually, and delete all of them. I just don't like my emails being available to a hacker.
Are there any settings to accomplish this?
Thanks.

You're right, for a POP account, the option "Place a Copy in:" in TB, under Account Settings/Copies and Folders would only enable/disable local copies to the Sent folder. If you want local copies, leave it checked.
To control the setting for copies to the Sent folder on the server, login to your Gmail account via browser, and look for an option to disable it there.
The 'Other' option in TB can be used to chose another account's Sent folder, e.g. underneath 'Local Folders'.

Outgoing email very slow

Outgoing email is very slow. Happened suddenly with no changes being made to the Thunderbird account. Have checked with server (Execulink telecom) and we have no problems sending directly from their web mail site. Takes almost 30 seconds to send an email with no attachments.

Sounds like you might have anti-virus software scanning the email before it is sent.
If this is the case then, try switching off the scanning to see if this improves performance.
It is also possible that your Sent folder has become very large.
Archive old sent emails, delete those you do not want, then right click on Sent folder and select 'Compact'.

Outgoing email settings change back to "none" even after I save

Hi I hope someone can help me. My server is bellsouth/att and I have gone through the settings for my mailbox with them over and over. I have the correct settings. (smtp.att.yahoo.com) I have three accounts in my mail (version 3.6) and for some reason the outgoing settings after I enter the correct setting - hit save - reverts back to "none". It says I have no outgoing mail server. I have to go into each account and change the settings back to the correct setting each time I want to send something out for each account. Also, somehow I lost all of my emails for the last year in my primary email. I'm getting so frustrated - I don't know what happened to my mailbox! Can anyone offer advice? Bellsouth/ATT have no idea anymore!
Thank you
Jessica

Go to Mailbox > Rebuild. If that doesn't fix it, try removing the account. Also try removing the file ~(Home)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist.

Outgoing Emails fails after Port 25 blocked by email administrator

Hi, our email team administrator has blocked the port 25 and restricted user to use SSL port 465 instead. The share point SMTP email setup page only shows TLS encryption check box (no ssl encryption check box available)
Is this a limitation on share point 2010 that only TLS encryption available? Please kindly advice.
Thank you.

Hi Layman,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to configure the SMTP to use port 465 for outgoing email in SharePoint.
Per my knowledge, Exchange server will secure communication over any port, but will not use SSL, so there is only TLS encryption in SMTP.
To use port 465, we can add the port 465 under Network tab to the Receiver Connector for SharePoint Outgoing email. And then TCP port number on Outbound Connections in
DSMTP Virtual Server properties.
More references:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/tirumals/archive/2012/03/17/step-by-step-configuration-of-outgoing-emails-from-sharepoint-to-microsoft-online.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829721/en-us
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/8dc08cf8-8662-4a02-a181-f821e8d59d06/exchange-smtp-using-port-465?forum=exchangesvrgenerallegacy
For more information, you can post your question to the forum for Exchange: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/home?category=exchangeserverlegacy .
More experts will assist you, then you will get more information relation to Exchange.
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Marking outgoing emails for follow-up

Hi,
A lot of the email I send out are messages I need to follow up on at a later stage. Right now, my approach is to review my outbox every week and then read every message I sent to catch up on any developments (yay for 'organize by conversation') and either archive if case closed or follow up. It's a bit tedious and requires me to read a lot of messages I shouldn't have to. It also means that in some cases I am sitting with somebody in my team and I'll miss an opportunity to check on status because I haven't added the issue to my 'to do' app yet.
What I'm looking for is this ...
While I'm composing a new message or writing a response to an existing message, I want to be able to mark this message for follow-up.
Here is what I've done so far ...
I know I can mark a message with a flag after it has been sent. But those are a significant number of added clicks and not a very elegant solution.
Same goes for tools like MailHub, which let me mark emails after they have been sent.
I've considered writing a script that gets triggered upon email send, popping up a dialog asking to flag the message or not. With Mail Act-On, I can run scripts that way. Better, but could get rather annoying quite quickly.
I've found MailTags, but it slows down Mail and the horrid user interface makes my eyes hurt.
And while the keynote showing off Mavericks had me hoping the tags would be in Mail too, I installed the beta and it seems there is no tag support included in Mail. I guess one can hope it will get added before final release, but I am thinking it will not be.
I'm sure I'm not the only person who faces this situation.
Any recommendations?
cheers,
Rob

This might solve your issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1366627

How can I delete a "stuck" outgoing email from my iphone4s?

How can I delete a "stuck" outgoing email from my aol mail on my iphone4s? I believe it's "stuck" and not sending because the attached files were too large. Nothing I've tried to send after that is going out, just waiting in queu. Thank you!

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None of the commands (eg attachments) on the insert bar for outgoing emails is working - what can I do? Thanks, Drummond

I suddenly cannot insert attachments to outgoing emails in Windows Live Hotmail. If I click on attachments or any other tool in the insert bar, nothing happens. My wife's hot mail account on the same computer, using the same version of Firefox, works fine; my account works fine when I use Internet Explorer instead of Firefox. How can I fix this?
Thanks for any help.

Start Firefox in [[Safe Mode]] to check if one of your add-ons is causing your problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Tools > Add-ons > Themes).
See [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]] and [[Troubleshooting plugins]]
If it does work in Safe-mode then disable all your extensions and then try to find which is causing it by enabling one at a time until the problem reappears.
You can use "Disable all add-ons" on the [[Safe mode]] start window to disable all extensions.<br />
You have to close and restart Firefox after each change via "File > Exit" (Mac: "Firefox > Quit"; Linux: "File > Quit")

Text in outgoing emails

I have been using my MacBook Pro for several months now and have had the same account linked to the mail icon as my yahoo account. Over the last few months I have been experiencing trouble with my yahoo account only when sending outgoing emails using my macbook pro. I only experience this when sending emails through safari rather than the mail icon. Every time I send out an email, my message contains a long series of keys from the keyboard prior to my own typed message. This appears after I send every email, but does not appear similar to a signature as I am typing an email. Also, this does not show up if I send an email using another computer or my phone. How can I prevent this from happening again?
The exact series appears as below in every email I send out...
`
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0
=
backspace
tab
q
w
e
r
.... and so on

AFAIK - You can't prevent the mail from underlining and showing the text as blue when it comes to numbers, address, times and things like that. It is just one annoying feature of the mail app.
You can format outgoing text by selecting it and then tapping the arrow to the right of "Suggest...." And in the next bar that appears tap on "B I U" bold, italics or underline.

Thunderbird changes outgoing email address

Composing a new email:
In the "To" field I start to type an address. Thunderbird provides a drop-down of matches from my address book. I select one of the addresses. Thunderbird puts it into the "To" field. At this point, my cursor is still in the "To" field. Then I hit Enter to move to the next field, & Thunderbird changes the email address to a different address (a different address from my address book).
If I add a space after the email address before pressing Enter, Thunderbird leaves the email address as is.
Behavior is kind of random - address is not replaced all the time. Also, for a while Thunderbird will make one change - like always changing address X to address Y, then it will switch to another change - always replacing address Z with address W.
The replacement address is always one that is in the address book.
Also, Thunderbird randomly colors some outgoing email addresses as red, even though they are in my address book.

hi jbh01
The easiest method is to use the contacts sidebar as described in option 2.
But contacts do need to be in an Address Book.
However, if your issue is to reveal more TO fields, then you can drag the divider downwards. See image below.
If you write using Plain Text , there will be no Formatting Bar. If you use HTML formatting, then there will be a Formatting Bar.
In the image below there is a Formatting Bar between 'Subject' and the composing area. In the image below, I've indicated this with a red line.
Use mouse and hover over this line, the mouse should chnage to a double headed arrow. Left click and hold down to grab the line. Then move mouse downwards to move the line. It will reveal more TO fields.

On launch Mail's first outgoing email takes 3 minutes to send.

Every time I launch Mail in Snow Leopard, the very first outgoing email takes FAR too long to get out. All the following emails seem to go out normally. This happens to all Mac's on my network that have upgraded to Snow Leopard. A friend running Tiger was able to send out his first email after launch immediately. Seems to be a Snow Leopard issue. All emails are going through the same SMTP server.
Anyone else have this issue and/or suggestions?

Hi Vertical Interactive & welcome to discussions...
Two things you can try...
1.) Use the Mailbox menu to rebuild your inbox
2.) Find the /Library/Preferences folder in your user/Home folder and then locate and delete this file:
com.apple.mail.plist
*Caution* - deleting the plist may clear your account settings so be sure to note those first in the event you are required to reconfigure, etc.

Problem setting up email after Belle update

Hi, I was having this problem that after Belle update I could not receive emails after set up.
My email is with eircom.net and phone is with Vodafone Ireland. It is working afet I tried these settings.
Set your own email address, user name and password.
Try this settings:
Incoming server: webmail.eircom.net ( use your own, this in mine with eircom.net)
access point: internet
NB: security: OFF
Port: default
APOP secure login: OFF
outgoing server: For vodafone it is mail.vodafone.ie (Ireland)
Access point: internet
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port:default
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Slow Outgoing Email after 10.5.4

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