Panther Mail hops around

bjer

Don't know if anyone else has this problem. Clean install of Panther on 1.33 17 inch AP with 1G. Now it only checks my four email boxes randomly. This one this time and that one that time, never all four on each mail check. Tried to check and all config are proper. Really strange.



Also, anyone knows how to export all to Entourage? I may be forced to do that if this mail problem does not get solved.

pscates

I was going to start another thread, but I hope you don't mind that I include my Panther Mail situation in here?



As for your problem, I have no idea. That is odd. Did you ask Apple?



My problem is much more cruel: on my work G4, Mail simply won't launch.







It'll bounce in the Dock, get the black triangle (briefly) then quit before the window even appears. I get a message saying "Mail has unexpectedly quit".



No kidding.



There is a little "send report to Apple" button in that message window, so I did.



Any thoughts/suggestions on mine or BJer's problem anyone?

cake

BJer, this is obvious and you may have already tried this, but it's all I could find:

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If email is not retrieved from an account, open its settings in the Accounts pane of Mail preferences and make sure "Include this account when checking for new mail" is selected in the Account Options pane.

pscates, Look here.

Also, I've read that if you have any third party enhancements installed (like Default Folder), those can cause this behavior.



Just guessin' \

Good luck to both of you.

bjer

Thanks for the suggestion, done it already for every email account. Its just really strange that checking is done on a selective basis and that selectivity is randomely determined. Still can't find a solution yet.

kickaha

Are you sure that your network connection to all four is solid? I see that sometimes when a connection goes wonky - it will not check that one for quite a while, then suddenly decide that it's live again sometime later.

amorya

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Originally posted by Kickaha

Are you sure that your network connection to all four is solid? I see that sometimes when a connection goes wonky - it will not check that one for quite a while, then suddenly decide that it's live again sometime later.

You can force it to decide by going to Mailbox -> Get New Mail In Account...



Choose the account that isn't working. It should jolt it back to life.





Amorya

bjer

Thanks guys. Network connection working fine. I can go to mail boxes individually and no problem at all. Just when when I go to get mail from all of them it start hopping again. Oh well, guess its back to Entourage until an upgrade for Mail comes out. Appears to have others with problems with this new Panther version of Mail as well.