We cannot receive mail messages in Mail unless we quit and re-open the mail software. Help please

We have tourble with our Mail software. It does not receive e-mail sent to it immidiately. We have to quit Mail and re-open it and then click on "get mail" othwise it takes un unknown amount of time to download messages.

I've had it take hours to receive an eMail I sent to myself with nothing but one line of text, depends how many times it has to go around the world to find a server path to me.
Open Network Utility>Traceroute tab, try like smtp.gmail.com except yours in that, how many steps & time does it take?

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My problem is after updating to Yosemite does my mail client any longer. I can not even open the mail, and when I "forced closes" mail and try to open it again to go in the entered settings running the colored wheels around and allows me only to forcing close again? does anyone have a solution to the above problem?

You mean the default OS X mail app? Try reinstalling OS X Yosemite if that's the case.
If you are referring to 3rd party mail applications, that's a compatibility issue. Some apps don't work in the new operating system. You have to wait until the developer updates the app, or you have to revert back to Mavericks to continue using it.

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Hi Theunderdog1,
I have an article for you that will help you address this issue with contacting the software update server:
iTunes for Windows: iTunes can't contact the iPhone, iPad, or iPod software update server
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1814
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
-Braden

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Select the store on the left side of iTunes.
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Appreciate the update plurrykid,
Knowing you are starting to receive them is good, but certainly we want you to receive all of them, not just random ones. I know it’s important to get them up and running as soon as possible. It will usually take Apple 24-48 hours to un-register you completely; if it has not been fully done, what you can try is resetting your Apple ID password here http://bit.ly/1kwc2va . Since you will be changing your password and the original device which still has iMessages on, will not be aware of the new password for them, it will revert to text messages. Let us know how it goes.
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