OS X :: Why Does Take So Long To Add Email Accounts
May 15, 2009
In Mail, when you add an account, why does it take so ridiculously long to verify with no way to skip verification? At first I thought this was just my system but I've now had a friend ask me why it's so slow (took 17 minutes) and he's on a different ISP and everything. This means that 100% of the computers I've seen take an unacceptably long time to verify the account. This problem only appears to affect Apple Mail. I find it hard to believe that Apple could release something this bad, so I have two questions:
1. Is this normal?
2. Why does it happen?
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May 30, 2010
it is possible to get my work email account (pop) to sync with mobile me as well as my mobile me account?
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Apr 12, 2012
Just purcahsed a new IMac. my e-mail is coming into mail fine, but how do I add my wife's account, and how do we switch back and forth from accounts.
Our older Mac is still up and working, we used Entourage for that, and I kind of would like to duplicate ithe process in Mail if possible. Still getting mail there too.
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Apr 18, 2012
I'd like to get off Google Gmail, but I have to retreive and read email from accounts other than my me.com account. Is this in the product?
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Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4GB RAM
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May 11, 2012
Just purchased the imac. how I can permantley keep my email accounts online. It is so frustrating, when the computer keeps asking for my passwords
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
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Jun 6, 2012
After a recent OS upgrade my Mac Mail no longer access my POP email accounts. Both worked perfectly before this.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 24" Cinema Display
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Jun 16, 2012
Will I have to re-do the directives from my other email accounts? do you suggest saving all of the account info separately before migrating to iCloud?
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Sep 10, 2014
In my home machine I have several email accounts. I have a wife, two company accounts, and 4 young kids and each of them has is own account
Still they all look like as follows
My Name <mywife@mac.com>
My Name<sonaccount@mac.com>
and so on
As my kids receive emails, when they want to reply they would like to have their name in the header as this
mywife <mywife@mac.com>
sonaccount <sonaccount@mac.com>
In the Mail preferences the names are grey and cannot be modified
Before iCloud this was easy to do, but how to do so in the latest version of Mavericks? Â
I can no longer use one of my accounts. What happens when I try to add it to Mavericks Mail it recognises the log and pass as correct, however the Mail option is not available.
Trying to enter the mail box from SAFARI the iCloud,com website recognises my log and pass, clicking on the MAIL option it asks me to enter the log and pass again, doing so it tells me that log is already taken
I don't understand how this is possible as these are all paid account for well over a decade and I am already correctly in my iCloud account.
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Aug 7, 2009
I ordered a macbook pro and an iPod touch yesterday and didn't get a confirmation email so I cancelled.
I contacted the bank today and everything is in order so I ordered again and it's been 2 hours and I didn't get the confirmation email yet. Does it usually take this long? I've never bought on the online apple store before. I got the "thank you for your order" thing and everything so I'm sure they accepted the credit card. I'm not sure why the email is taking forever and it's getting me to be a little edgy.
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Mar 14, 2012
I'm using Mac mail. I have a hotmail acct that I use MBOX mail as a go-between between it and Mac Mail so I can use IMAP and get me hotmail folders etc. It's working great escept for the fact that sometimes there are long delays where I don't receive emails that are coming in. Sometime not even when I click "get mail." I have to right click on the account and click "get info." That will start showing all the data on the account and usually bring in the new emails that have been sitting there for a while.
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Dec 30, 2008
Im very green to the apple way of computing, before I got this new aluminum macbook from santa I've always used windows. Anyway, I am loving my new apple but of course transferring all my old stuff and getting used to how the new programs work can be quite a hassle. Right now im trying to get apple mail to function like outlook did. Please be patient with me. I have several email addresses, private, business, hobby, etc. They go with several of my websites. But they are all hosted with the same server, so although every email has a different name, they all use the same mail server, user name and password.
I know I can add new accounts and by adding different email addresses to the name, divided with a , I can send emails from different addresses. But here is my problem. Every email I send comes from the same sender, the same name but a different email address. info@hab.nl & jo@jo.nl all come from sender Jo, not from hab & jo as I would like. Everytime I try to add a new account I get this message; "The account "jo" already has this hostname and username". I know it does! But I still want to use those with different email accounts, just like I used to do in Outlook.
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Feb 16, 2009
I've come across a strange problem that I'm not sure if Mac Mail will be able to deal with natively. Basically, I have several contacts in my address book that have 2 addresses; work and home. I also have 2 mail accounts set up; my work account and my home account. I've run into a few problems at work when I'm sending email to colleagues as it was auto-selecting their personal addresses when I typed in their names. I managed to fix that but now when I send mail from my personal account, the auto-select chooses their work email first so I have to scroll down to choose their personal account.
Is there a way of getting mail to understand that if I'm sending mail from my personal account, then "home" addresses should show up first in auto-complete but if I'm sending from my work account, then "work" addresses should show up first? I understand this is probably a bit of a long shot without a third party tool but thought it best to ask!
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Apr 15, 2009
I've only really used Mail in a very basic way - for reading email from three email accounts, one work, two Gmail. I've never attempted to organize things in any way. However, I want to clean things up a bit now. I'm getting a lot of work emails - I'm a journalist - and I want to organise them based on which article they relate to. I presumed the easiest way to do this would be to create a folder (a 'Mailbox' I take it, Mailbox > New Mailbox) and drag the relevant emails to the corresponding folder. However, when I do this the emails no longer appear in my overall Inbox, so when I search the Inbox, they don't appear. I've had a quick look around the Preferences, but can't see a simply option for changing this. Am I going about this the right way organising using Mailboxes? Or is there a better way perhaps?
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Nov 28, 2009
i have just moved over from windows and got myself a new 21.5" imac and am loving it. this may sound like a
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Feb 2, 2010
It's more of an annoyance than a problem, but it seems in mail, I am unable to rename my email accounts, to something better than the email address. The rename selection is greyed out in the menu.
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Jul 25, 2010
I formatted my macbook recently and lost my passwords for hotmail and gmail and I don't remember them as I gave remember my password option. I don't remember the answer to the secret question. Is there any software that I can use to retrieve my passwords.
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Jul 11, 2008
Which I then managed to set up again but emails going to wrong inboxes which I then tried to rectify & now I can't get mail to either inbox. I have gone to Mac Help & even tried to delete both accounts with no joy.
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Oct 1, 2009
My mac mail account wont fetch my mails from pop accounts...console message reads: error for database. SQLite error code:1 SQL logic error or missing database during invocation.. This happened it seems like after the clock for some reason was set back to 1969 for some odd reason - I reset it back to today and this happened.
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Feb 10, 2012
I have suddenly been deluged with apparently undeliverable mail sent elsewhere but returned to my email address from Hotmail. I am neither a subscriber/member of Hotmail, nor of Windows Live. How do I simply block a sender from my email inbox? With the PC there was an ability to name senders, but I cannot find the same on my iMac.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), + 2 iphones and ipad
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Apr 21, 2012
My email stopped reciving email yesterday from all of my email accounts. If I go directly to gmail, myuw, comcast, etc, all email are there.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 26, 2012
All three of my email accounts are offline, will not go online?
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IMac, Mac OS X (10.5.1)
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May 11, 2012
I cannot access any of my mac email accounts on any device.
Info:G5, Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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Jun 14, 2012
I'll be moving to iCloud on a new iMac running 10.7 soon. My main email is a mac.com address and my wife and daughter each have an 'email only' account associated with that. We need all those to continue to work. Does it matter which account we move first? I am worried something might get lost if we move the wrong one first. They are both running older macs so won't be able to get full icloud, but only need access to email at the moment.
Also, I currenty use use entourage and collect email using POP - I gather this will no longer be possible and I'll have to use IMAP, which I'm not familiar with - anything I need to bear in mind making that change? I'm currently in two minds whether to move to Mail or Outlook
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Feb 19, 2012
I set up iCloud email with 2 alias accounts and want one of my alias accounts to be my iCloud email and my iCloud email to be one of the alias accounts. Can I rearrange them?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 13, 2012
I have 3 email accounts but would like to have one dominate, i.e. from which emails are sent, but continue to receive the other 2 in my inbox. Recommendations to optimise this? or should I just have 2 accounts forwarded to the main 1?
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MacBook Air
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Mar 19, 2012
All my 4 Email-Accounts are invisible. It's unable to click in th checkbox in iTunes 10.6 (Synchronize Mail-Accounts).I can synchronize my Mails in "Mail-Programm" and on my iPhone.
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Apr 13, 2012
I am asked for my password to open my Macmail accts but it will not accept them. Keychain is corrupting them somehow and I cannot get to my mail. Any ideas what to do? The passwords are correct but macmail will not save them
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 14, 2012
I am constantly being asked for my passwords for all 3 of my email accounts.
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MacBook Pro
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May 18, 2012
I have my mobile me email account but I also have 2 business email accounts that are linked to my Mac as well as my iPhone 4s. BUT the iCloud mobile me email is ok but my 2 business emails do not mirror at all. iPhone and Mac are completely separate.Â
I have tried deleting the business emails from my phone then in 'info' in iTunes when the phone is connected I have tried syncing email accounts as well as 'replace mail accounts' in the 'advanced' section.Â
When I do this it loads the messages from the accounts as unread emails. However on my mac each account has 27 emails in each account. When the phone syncs the accounts 1 email has 123 messages and the other 61.
Deleting messages from Mac or iPhone makes no difference in mirroring. Is there any way to get my 2 business accounts to mirror on both devices. As you can understand it is very frustrating having differing messages on both devices.
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Macbook, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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May 28, 2012
I bought an iPod and loaded all kinds of music under my aol.com name, then I bought an iPad and Mac, got a Mac email and started buying tunes under my Mac email. How do you combine the 2.
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