Re: Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-14 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Thanks very much. This last suggestion cleared up a mystery in the series of problems I had. The old mail account has now been deleted from the Outgoing Mail Server list. I think I know how the Mail.app clears the "squiggles and bangs (S&B)". When iMac wakes from sleep mail.app is

Re: Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-14 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, Just quickly as still working with Clients. I'm not sure what problems you are still having from your email below :( >> 5. Sometime today (well after the squiggle problem was noted over the >> weekend) I found that the mail composing box showed two "from" boxes: one >> normal and one s

Re: Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-14 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni Thanks for your help. Mail now seems to be working as per the book (and to expectations). The squiggles and occasional bang had stopped by mid-afternoon. I could not prove any mail server or internet problem, but found several settings in Mail had got out of kilter. In no partic

Re: Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-13 Thread Alan Smith
Hi Ronni I have serious problems with Mail on my iMac. I replied to you around lunchtime, but Mail (now called Hal, from 2001 movie) sent it from my gmail account. This was rejected by WAMUG as it is not my member address. May also have iiNet problems, but can't access their site. I will tr

Re: Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Alan, The 'squiggle' beside an account name means you are not connected to the mail server, you are offline at that moment. Perhaps you are not immediately connecting to the Network on wake from sleep. Mail automatically checks for Mail when you launch Mail.app and then in what time you have

Mail activity feature in Mountain Lion?

2012-08-12 Thread Alan Smith
When Mountain Lion wakes from sleep, Mail (v 6.0) usually shows a squiggle (the technical term Ronni?) next to the Inbox. Mail needs the "get new message in all accounts" icon clicked to trigger any action. All mail accounts (gmail and iiNet ) initially show the squiggle. Is there a setting