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  1. P

    mail trouble

    Hi, I'm a new newbie. In advance I'm asking for forbearance as I am really not too sure of how to describe the situation I'm having trouble solving. I have a 2+ year old iMac with 10.13.6. All was fine (I do also have parallels and Windows 10 on it) on the iOS side until I decided to change...
  2. disconap

    Resolved Whitelist from Apple spam filters

    Is there any way to do this? I have tried adding a rule that moves any email from a domain into the inbox, and I have the spam filter set to not set to junk any email that is also in my contacts, and it STILL sends every single email from a particular contact to junk. This is extremely...
  3. Mestika

    Mac Mail 10.3 keeps crashing on Sierra

    Hi, Since yesterday, my Mac Mail suddenly keeps crashing everytime I open it up. It keeps alive for around 20-30 seconds, and then closes with the "report / reopen" dialog. I happened suddenly and on a day where I had been using the mail for the entire day, so as far as I know I haven't done...
  4. L

    Mail problem 2

    Hi, mail has constantly been crashing/hanging lately. It works fine, sometimes for up to an hour, sometimes 20mins, but then i get the spinning beach ball and i have to force quit it. Any ideas what can solve this? I tried moving com.apple... to the trash and restarting but it didn't seem to...
  5. L

    mac mail slow and crashing

    Hi, running OS X 10.12.6 - MacBook pro mac mail has all of a sudden become really slow and keeps crashing. Im getting the spinning beach ball all the time, it keeps lagging, like when i type an email nothing appears for 10 seconds, then it catches up with itself all of a sudden. Any...
  6. dictoresno

    Anyone notice an uptick of spam emails to iCloud?

    Lately I've been setting random spam messages to my iCloud email address from random and sometimes spoofed legitimate hosting sites. All of them had "reply to" indicators directing to an @gmx.com, @gmx.us email address. Also noticed that the "from" and "to" sections are usually the same spam...
  7. S

    Problems with Mac Mail, reinstall?

    I seem to have problems with Mail that other people don’t have. Some examples: - ALT-DELETE not working; - Occasional clunky/slow and unreliable application of my mail rules (some disappearing messages); - Gmail and iCloud messages not being backed up in Time Machine (but Hotmail is); … and...
  8. YFUK

    Mac Mail certificate warning every day

    Running macOS Sierra 10.12 Beta (16A294a) on a late 2010 iMac 27 and so far no problems to report apart from Mac Mail. I normally have Mail auto start on boot up and in El Capitan that was mostly fine but in macOS Sierra every time the mail client starts I get a security certificate warning for...
  9. di1in

    Archiving Emails with Mac Mail

    Hi everybody, I have an IMAP connection with the Google Apps email account that I use for work. I routinely end up hitting the 15GB cap (10-12 months worth of emails) and my company does not want to upgrade the capacity for the Google Apps account. They suggested I set up POP, but that will be...
  10. S

    Disappearing mail messages

    Hi. Anyone else getting this problem?... I am subscribed to various YouTube channels. When alerts come through by email I have my Mac Mail rules sort them into folders. I might see the new ones and decide to watch them later. Next day, I look in those folders and that day's email alerts are...
  11. C

    Mac Mail issues with two Exchange accounts

    I'm an IT guy that is much more familiar with Windows than OS X so hoping to get some advice from you guys. I have a user using Mac Mail for email and it works just fine. However he needs to add a second Exchange account and it messes things up. The account adds just fine, then when you go to...
  12. threepmdesign

    Setting up email accounts in Mail from IMAP/POP3

    Hi, I am new to MacRumors, but have been a Mac user my entire life. This is the first thing has frustrated me to no end. Forgive me if this has already been addressed in a past forum post: I am trying to install a new email account in my Mail from my company's hosting company. Right now, I...
  13. S

    What's included in iCloud sync?

    Hi. Forgive me if this question has already been done, but I've had no luck finding the answer. I have just upgraded my iMac and MacBook to El Capitan. Also, I have ditched Google Chrome (because it was hogging too much memory) and switched to Safari. Logging in to Google Chrome would would...
  14. M

    Mail App/Gmail Problems

    I use the standard Mail App on my iMac along with Gmail's website (web mail) about equally when sending emails. I have never had any issues until about a month ago. Now I am seeing that certain emails I send are not finding their target, and also, certain emails I reply to are also not making...
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    Mac Mail Rules won't work

    When I close a rule, instead of the screen showing 'Apply Rule', all options other than 'Add Rule' are greyed out. Every bad email is retuning a message 'Cannot move to trash', which is annoying. Can anybody help, please Daniel Roberts