Mail behaving strangely

    • Hi,

    I have done “Mailbox – Get All New Mail” in Mac-Mail a dozen times today: no new messages.

    Last “Get” attempt was 17:25 today: no new messages.

    Next I logged in to bluewin webmail & see three new (“new” = not delivered to imaps) messages: two from Sunday, one from 02:09 this morning!

    I immediately returned to Mac-Mail…magic!! The 3 “new” messages are in my inbox!!!

    This has been going on for a few days.

    …is it just me, or is there some sort of imaps issue chez Swisscom?

    Chris

    This post is in English

    • After wasting time with everything from logs to packet-captures, I finally noticed a simple anomaly: one of my bluewin mail accounts had been switched to “offline” in Mac-Mail.

      This particular “anonymised” account is used only for signing-up to web sites and doesn’t get much traffic after the first “click here to confirm your mail address” nonsense.

      I don’t recall setting that account offline, but setting it online last night fixed the problem.

      No other settings edited/changed.

      All why/how questions remain unanswered – but it works.

      To answer my own question: “is it just me?”. Yes

      Chris

    Thanks @DomiP

    OK, but…

    The only “event” that occurred between no new messages and three long-overdue messages arriving in imaps Mac-Mail was my visit to bluewin webmail: zero updates; zero config changes (by me) on any device in my network.

    …for sure I’ll play with settings tomorrow morning, but with little confidence that this is the solution.

    Chris

    This post is in English

    After wasting time with everything from logs to packet-captures, I finally noticed a simple anomaly: one of my bluewin mail accounts had been switched to “offline” in Mac-Mail.

    This particular “anonymised” account is used only for signing-up to web sites and doesn’t get much traffic after the first “click here to confirm your mail address” nonsense.

    I don’t recall setting that account offline, but setting it online last night fixed the problem.

    No other settings edited/changed.

    All why/how questions remain unanswered – but it works.

    To answer my own question: “is it just me?”. Yes

    Chris

    This post is in English

    @Tchris

    thanks for the feedback

    in order to close a topic by the initiator, if the problem is resolved or that it not happen again

    please accept a post as approved solution even a personal post, to do this

    use the option Solution? at the bottom left of the post Is the answer a solution to your contribution?

    So mark it as a solution or use the equivalent option with the toothed wheel at the top right of the post

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