Mail behaviour

2014-09-11 Thread Graeme Winters
Could someone suggest a solution to recent strange behaviour with incoming mail My wife's sister using an IMac 24 running Mountain Lion has recently setup a gmail account of her own following the death of her husband who operated a bigpond account She had been sending and receiving emails

Re: Mail behaviour

2014-09-11 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Graeme, In Mail: Mail Preferences - Viewing Check that Display remote images in HTML messages is ticked. See if that helps. Cheers, Ronni 13-inch MacBook Air (April 2014) 1.7GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost to 3.3GHz 8GB 1600MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM 512GB PCIe-based Flash Storage On 11

Re: Mail behaviour

2014-09-11 Thread Daniel Kerr
Hi Graeme If that doesn't work, the other thing you can try is for her to log into the Gmail account online (i.e. in Safari for example from www.gmail.com ) and then re-forward the message to herself. Sometimes if the message gets stopped when it's downloading, it's doesn't get the all

Re: Mail behaviour

2014-09-11 Thread Graeme Winters
Many thanks Ronni and Daniel Mail Preferences Viewing was ticked I had tried accessing Gmail via Google and reading her email however difficulties finding passwords prevented this initially Part of the issue was I think her miserable 5 Gb download with Bigpond With some extra assistance from a

Odd mail behaviour

2012-03-19 Thread Adrian Skehan
Good afternoon all! Earlier today for no apparent reason my MobileMe/iCloud mail account went off line and was not sending or receiving mail. I went through everything I could think of and the only odd thing I saw was in the mail preferences Account Information panel the Incoming Mail Server

Re: Odd mail behaviour

2012-03-19 Thread Tim law
Your problem may be different, on the odd occasion Mail app plays up on my desktop computer, I find that 'take all accounts offline' for a minute, then 'take all accounts online' again seems to fix it. Tim Sent from my iPhone On 19/03/2012, at 4:41 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com

Re: Odd mail behaviour

2012-03-19 Thread cm
Hi Adrian, Yes I agree with Tim. On occasions an email server for one reason or another will become unavailable. The problem could be local, with your router, slightly further away with your ISP, or all the way to the server. Often just taking the account online later will fix the problem. As

Re: Odd mail behaviour

2012-03-19 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks for that Tim Carlo, I'll see how it behaves tomorrow. Regards Adrian Sent from my iPad On 19/03/2012, at 8:22 PM, cm cm200...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adrian, Yes I agree with Tim. On occasions an email server for one reason or another will become unavailable. The problem could be

Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Sulkowski
M Sulkowski Mac OS 10.6.2 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Since upgrading to 10.6.2 I have some weird mail behavour. Almost every 9 from10 can not be send = server can not be found try later mail is saved in outbox I then doubleclick the message click send and the message leaves without any problem.

Re: Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread David Moyle
Morning, Odd issue. I just had a look in Mail for setting I've seen before with other e-mail clients. Some allow you to POP before SMTP. The idea being it opens a connection tunnel to the mail server and then attempts to send the e-mail. Not sure if that is the direct issue here but might be

Re: Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Ronda Brown
On 28/11/2009, at 11:35 AM, Martin Sulkowski wrote: M Sulkowski Mac OS 10.6.2 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo Since upgrading to 10.6.2 I have some weird mail behavour. Almost every 9 from10 can not be send = server can not be found try later mail is saved in outbox I then doubleclick the

Re: Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Sulkowski
Hi Ronni The only difference is Incoming .=pop.reachnet.com.au NO tick in Use Authentication ,,can not find where this is Everything else is the same Thanks Martin On 28/11/2009, at 1:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 28/11/2009, at 11:35 AM, Martin Sulkowski wrote: M

Re: Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Ronda Brown
Ok Martin thanks for that. Do you only have one Mail Account? What Port are you using for Sending Mail? Go to Edit SMTP Server List from Outgoing Mail Server under Accounts in Mail Preferences. (You use the arrow on smtp.reachnet.com.au then click Edit SMTP Server List) Then to Advanced

Re: Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Martin Sulkowski
Hi Ronni It has another account ...bbsatwhich I deleted ...Everything else is as you described. Could the problem be linked to the upload speed ...I know that the last month was very slow ..maybe the month before was similiar without me noticing it . Thanks for your help. On

Re: Mail behaviour

2009-11-27 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Martin, The slow upload speed certainly isn't helping, I've heard that Reachnet is painfully slow ;-) Try the following: 1. Quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home Library Mail Mailboxes Outbox.mbox. 2. Drag the Outbox.mbox to the Trash and empty the Trash. 3. When

Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Skehan
Afternoon all, Since going over to Snow Leopard mail has been sending mail out OK but randomly puts copies in the Draft box as well as the Sent box, some of these messages have the original recipients address and some have no address at all. Has anyone any suggestions as to the cause of

Re: Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread James Devenish
Hi Adrian, 2009/9/15 Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com: Since going over to Snow Leopard mail has been sending mail out OK but randomly puts copies in the Draft box as well as the Sent box,  some of these messages have the original recipients address and some have no address at all.  Has

Re: Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Skehan
No, the messages are sent OK. but of some reason it is also put into the Draft box. This is occurring quiet randomly with the messages and with the addressees. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 15/09/2009, at 4:20 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Adrian, 2009/9/15 Adrian Skehan

Re: Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread Ronda Brown
On 15/09/2009, at 4:10 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Afternoon all, Since going over to Snow Leopard mail has been sending mail out OK but randomly puts copies in the Draft box as well as the Sent box, some of these messages have the original recipients address and some have no address at

Re: Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread James Devenish
HI Adrian, 2009/9/15 Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com: No, the messages are sent OK. but of some reason it is also put into the Draft box. This is occurring quiet randomly with the messages and with the addressees. I know the messages sent okay. What I'm trying to say is that the DRAFTS

Re: Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Skehan
OK. done that thanks Ronni, I'll wait and see if that cures it. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 15/09/2009, at 4:54 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 15/09/2009, at 4:10 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Afternoon all, Since going over to Snow Leopard mail has been sending mail out OK but

Re: Other strange mail behaviour

2009-09-15 Thread Adrian Skehan
Thanks James. It is not missing any accounts in send at all. The drafts only seem to appear the next day. Hopefully Ronni's suggestion will solve it. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 15/09/2009, at 5:13 PM, James Devenish wrote: HI Adrian, 2009/9/15 Adrian Skehan