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 particular order: 1. I now understand that the Snow Leopard Mail activity gear wheel is not a feature in Mountain Lion. 2. I used Mail > Window > Activity to monitor polling of mail servers etc. This is now working impeccably at the 5 minute setting I use. It starts 5 minutes from an initial poll when the iMac is woken from sleep. I feel that earlier today when it indicated a mailbox was offline (squiggled) it was not giving the initial poll and not doing subsequent polls. If I forced a "get new messages" poll it then worked until I left the iMac and it went to sleep again. 3. I do have System Preferences > Energy Saver "Wake for network access" selected. I don't think I receive mail when Mac is asleep - but not certain about this. 4. Mail is listed (in System Preferences) to open automatically when I log in. 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 showing the wrong account. The normal box showed a choice of my 3 normal accounts (1 iiNet, 2 gmail), the second box showed 2 iinet, both "offline", as well as 2 gmail). The second iiNet account was one cancelled 18 months ago - it does not appear in preferences. Mail menu checks showed all 3 real mailboxes were "online". 6. I set preferences to select my iiNet mail as default, and also checked preferences for each outgoing mail server account to be the same as the incoming mail address, and also checked the box to "use only this server" for each account. 7. I had to enter my password for the outgoing iiNet email. Didn't test the gmail accounts. 8. I have been using mail on my iPad for about 2 weeks, using the same mailboxes as on the iMac. (Doubling messages received.) Perhaps this contributed to the problem. The problems may point to a corrupt plist. I didn't touch because I don't know what to do about it. A Restart or two and re-checking Mail and System preferences have at least got mail working. Cheers Alan On 13/08/2012, at 4:28 PM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: 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 try and get mail fixed first before pursuing my earlier issues. Mail seems to receive from iiNet but not send. Cheers Alan Sent from my iPad On 13/08/2012, at 11:30 AM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > 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 set in Mail Preferences. > > Mail > Preferences - General - "Check for new messages" I have "Every 5 > minutes". > In System Preferences > Energy Saver do you have "Wake for network access" > selected? > > Cheers, > Ronni > > On 13/08/2012, at 10:43 AM, Alan Smith <sma...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > >> 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 to provide the automatic check for new mail on waking as >> was done in Snow Leopard? S.L. mail immediately showed the rotating gear >> wheel activity icon when system became active. >> >> Regards, Alan >> >> Alan Smith >> iMac 21.5" Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06GHz 12G RAM - OSX 10.8 >> iPad2; ATV2 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
