Yosemite Apple Mail - Troubleshooting - Connection Doctor

hi to all out there,
Apple Mail under Yosemite OS X 10.10 (14A389) can be a pain ...
#1 Connection Doctor :
there is this fine 'OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages' here
http://support.apple.com/en-us/ts3276
look at it, the image, the second in particular, next following ''Tip: If you see a spinning gear in Mail or the Mail Connection Doctor, choose Window > Activity to learn what Mail is doing.'
Take a look at the 'Account Name' column.
it looks quite similar on my macs apart from the fact that i detailed, for quite some time and quite some Apple Mail versions in the past, the accounts with -- to me --meaning-ful names, such as 'gbacc1(at)gmail.com', etc.
in apple mail prefs, and sys prefs, i thus could always spot what accounts and providers i employed when using the same entry for 'Description' and 'Email Address' in Apple Mail preferences account tab. (it too had advantages in the past when i did dirty finger jobs by tweaking the mail library, see below)
the apple mail preferences window may read :
#1 Account Type : Google IMAP; Description: gbacc1(at)gmail.com; Email Address: gbacc1(at)gmail.com; Full Name : ....
#1 Account Type : Google IMAP; Description: gb2acc(at)gmail.com; Email Address: gb2acc(at)gmail.com; Full Name : ....
#1 Account Type : Google IMAP; Description: acc3gb(at)gmail.com; Email Address: acc3gb(at)gmail.com; Full Name : ....
the apple mail 'Connection Doctor' window reads
'Status' column /green, or /red dot
and the 'Account Name' column 'Gmail' with the Account Type Column entry = 'Gmail SMTP' and the 'Details' = 'Connections and Loging to server succeeded.'
however, if something went wrong, the 'Details' entry may read 'Could not connect to ... checkbox in the Advanced tab of Account preferences.' (and the Status dot = /red)
as can be seen there is nothing to be seen, well, not any detail on which one of the gmail-accounts it is that causes problems
neither the 'Show Logs' nor the 'Show Details' yields any help/detail
in my case, there also is an odd issue with some accounts in 'Connection Doctor' being entitled correctly ('Account Name: gb2acc(at)gmail.com') whereas others, according to the simplified example list above, are merely assigned as 'Account Name: Gmail') ?¿!¡
it would help if one could identify, clearly, from the 'Connection Doctor' what account works and which one doesn't. that would be a working doctor, in my books. right now, it looks as if the doctor lacks some skills ...
#2 apart from experiencing these problems with AOL, and gmx, with that evil windows live crap accounts too, and gmail, the Apple Mail.app tends to ask over and over again and again for passwords (receiving, or sending mail). that is very annoying. in previous Apple Mail versions such issues were overcome with re-building mailboxes completely (eg. deleting the envelope-files) but these days it is really a big pain getting work done with Apple Mail --- i really hate (after having, eventually, received more or less all emails) that Apple Mail might ask me again for my passes when trying to send replies ?¿!¡
that 'Connection Doctor', and the 'Activity Window' do leave me with sort of a placebo-like win-crap info which delivers no info.
mebbe i grew very old and me memory (for that sake, me intellect, to be precise) fades but did we have such in os 6, os 7, or even Tiger and Leo ?
methinks it got worse with SL and beyond ... but then again it may be just me -(
btw. concerning posting & editing pop-up/pop-in : 'You have included content in your post that is not permitted.' is not of great help whence no details on 3vil l3tter-combos are given, methinks ...

another issue not noticed before : tho i have all notifications set OFF, and all automatic 'check for new messages', Apple Mail can't be stopped in (a) sending notifications for some but not all accounts (out of a sudden it started) and when fired up it checks for some (aol accounts) automatically.
no way to turn it off.

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