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This is the exact reason why I hate 'upgrading' OS X instead of Archive & Install. Hopefully doing one of these things will help. Throw the moved that you took out to the Trash or move it back if you can remember the email server settings.

Relaunch Mail and setup your email server settings MANUALLY!Ĥ. Navigate to the folder /Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/ and find the file and move it to your desktop.ģ. Write down all your email server settings!ģ. Now reset the accounts (without loosing locally save email boxes) involves a few more steps:ġ.

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You will have to setup you RSS feeds again but this is how to reindex your Mail boxes the graphical way. Launch Mail again and let it reindex itself.

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Have you reindexed your email from the upgrade yet? Just quit Mail and navigate to the folder /users/YouruserName/Library/Mail/ and find the files Envelope Index & RSS folder (to fix RSS feeds back to zero). This is why IMAP is generally a superior solution for accessing your email in a desktop application.Also if you are sure you are using the same SMTP server port and IMAP port that you were using before then check your time Server setting to make sure it worked to get your true local time. However, if you have any POP email accounts, you’ll lose emails stored offline. Mail should set things up correctly if you start over again. If you don’t know it, have a look at our list of SMTP parameters or contact your provider. Fill the Outgoing mail server voice with your SMTP server name. Open the Accounts tab and click on Server settings. You could also remove all your email accounts from the Mail app and re-add them. Open the voice Preferences in the Mail menu. Enable access for less secure apps in your Google account. Turn off two-step authentication for your Google account.

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Remove Gmail from Keychain and enter your password manually. Remove Gmail from your Mac, then add it again. RELATED: Email Basics: POP3 is Outdated Please Switch to IMAP Today Deactivate Gmail on your Mac, then activate it again. I have no clue why that would work though I also changed the account in Mail to not download all messages for offline viewing, which I think helped with the timeouts (my account is around 800 MB).

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You may have changed the password and forgotten to update the outgoing SMTP server password when you updated the incoming email account’s password, for example. If it’s an old account, the account may have been shut down and removed from the server.Ĭlick the “Edit SMTP Server List” option in the menu and provide appropriate account details-for example, by updating the password for the account in the SMTP server list. I had both IMAP and POP enabled in gmail settings - so I disabled POP and its been fine for the last 30 minutes. If you see the text “Offline” next to an account in the in the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) box, that indicates your SMTP server account settings are wrong. Choose the correct outgoing server for your account, and repeat for any other accounts in the left pane if necessary. Now, when you click the “Account” box under Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP), you’ll be able to tell which is which. When you’re done renaming the descriptions here, click OK. You can get these from your organization or email provider.) ,Click the “+” button here and add the SMTP server and account details. (If you only see one account in this box instead of two, then you need to add an outgoing address for the account that doesn’t have one. In our case, we changed one to “Outlook – Work” and “Outlook – Personal”. Then, click the “Description” box and give it a description that matches which account it is. Click on the first one and look at the “User Name” box at the bottom of the window. So, the first thing we have to do is rename these outgoing accounts-right now they’re both named “Outlook”, which is confusing. In the below screenshot, we can see that one outgoing account (in the left column) is being used by two incoming accounts (the right column). In this example, this means that both our personal and work accounts are sending email as our work address. That’s not what we want. It’s possible for an incoming email account address to be associated with the wrong outgoing email account.

The list you see here is a list of your outgoing email accounts. SMTP stands for “Simple Mail Transfer Protocol”. This may look fine, but it isn’t.Ĭlick the “Account” menu under Outgoing Mail and select “Edit SMTP Server List” to view more information about your outgoing email servers. If you have multiple accounts from the same domain-for example, multiple or accounts-it may just say “Outlook” or “Gmail” in the Outgoing Mail section. The Outgoing Mail Server setting can be misleading.