I knew my settings should be ok as they had not changed. Now Connection Doctor had a red mark for IMAP iCloud mail, while SMTP was green and connecting, as were my other accounts (ISP, gmail). Nothing had changed from the previous day - indeed months - when Mail was working perfectly well.

Unfortunately this doesn’t solve my more serious problem.Ībout a week ago suddenly my Mail app on the Mac stopped working - I got the exclamation mark next to my Inbox and it was my iCloud address which was no longer connecting to the server to retrieve mail. The reason I hadn’t seen it before is pretty banal - my speaker was blocking the lower left corner of my display so I didn’t see the gear…duh. To learn about the options in a pane, click the Help button at the bottom-right corner of the settings window.Thank you. Rules: Create rules to do things like have messages from a certain person automatically moved to a mailbox, or highlight messages about a birthday party.Įxtensions: Manage extensions that you use in Mail. Signatures: Create signatures that can be automatically appended to the messages you send. Viewing: Change settings to control how messages are shown in the Message viewer.Ĭomposing: Change settings for composing, addressing, and responding to messages. Junk Mail: Enable the junk mail filter, change settings to improve the filter, and manage blocked senders.įonts & Colors: Select the fonts and font sizes used to display messages. Use the Server Settings pane to change options for the incoming and outgoing mail servers. Use the Mailbox Behaviors pane to change where draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived messages are stored. General: Change settings that range from how often Mail should check for messages to the kinds of messages to include when you search in Mail.Īccounts: Add, delete, and disable your email accounts in Mail. In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Settings, then click a settings pane: Use Mail settings to change options for the email accounts you use in Mail, and for working with messages and mailboxes. Use information found in Mail in other apps.View, save, or delete email attachments.Use Remind Me to come back to emails later.Reply to, forward, or follow up on emails.Log out of or temporarily turn off an email account.

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