It all works fine via the web inteface, I am baffled. Connection doctor shows I am connected to gMail for IMAP and SMTP, but if I try and send any message or reply after a few moments the message reopens and I get the error 'Cannot send message using the server gMail out The sender address was rejected by the server ' What I now have is Apple Mail on my MBP functioning in all respects, except that I can send. I left it on over night and it cleared and all data was uploaded except the signatures which is a pain. Then the data transfer slowed to a crawl (5KB/s?) and the Activity monitor stalled. I took my MBP somewhere with decent bandwidth and all seemed to be going well after an unexpected quit by Mil. I have done as earlier suggested and ended up with no change on my iMac and what looked like a working solution to my MBP, though both originally presented in the same way. Thanks for that - but sadly whatever my problem is it must be slightly different to yours as this is not the answer - and what impossible Captchas they now have! I do have a lot of messages in sent mail, nearly 6,000, and while I can understand it progressively slowing things down I don’t see that it would cause both machines to fail simultaneously and anyway I don’t want to delete them.Īny ideas? There are no error messages, Connection Doctor shows me as logged in, and I have not found anything via a Google search or in their discussions. Oddly I have sent a lot of mail from the gMail interface today, but none of them show up in Apple Mail, tho earlier days do. I can drag messages to the Bin, but they don’t seem to stay there.
Mail itself does not seem completely broken, for instance I can look at Previous recipients, I can send from Mail and it arrives back (but then I can’t open it). My iMac is still stuffed as far as Mail is concerned. I then when out and after a restart (not the first since the problem) that my MB was OK - but only briefly.
When I got home I found I had exactly the same problem on my iMac which was fine before I left home and as with my MB I have to force quit to get out of Mail. I tried this for several days and always got the same result and assumed it was an (atypical) result of being abroad. Last week I was abroad and I could only use the web interface as when I logged in from my MacBook via Mail the message pane was fine (and up to date though it did not open by default as usual) but if I opened any message all I got was 'Loading' followed by the spinning beach ball. If the problem persists, users might try changing the case of the path prefix entry. Then go to the 'Advanced' tab and change the field to the value given by the account provider. This is a slight re-working of a post of 27 March as I am being driven nuts having to use web mail. Go to Mail's preferences and in the 'Accounts' section select the problematic account.