iMac won't receive Yahoo/AT&T incoming e-mail

On a whim, I created a Yahoo mail account -- basically a copy of the original -- and all of the missing emails suddenly popped into my inbox. Which is great, but it's still churning on six thousand-some emails it claims to be downloading. Something is goofy, but at least it appears the Mail client is working on my iMac.

ProbRus:

Thanks for the reply. Connection Doctor is showing that everything is fine. The Mail Activity window is suggesting that the account is in the midst of downloading all of the emails. I have reset the system so the computer will stay awake, and none of this has to take place in the background while it sleeps. My guess is that it is in the middle of rebuilding the mailbox. (Apparently a very slow process.) I will let it run and see what happens.

Thanks again.

I will get to that as soon as I can, but it's nearly 12 hours later and

the activity manager is saying that the system has downloaded 283 of

4,179 emails. This isn't just slow, it's glacial. The computer has been

awake all night, but progress is unacceptably slow. And it's not like I

have tons of emails that are complex or hold a lot of data. This does

not seem right.

I will get to that as soon as I can, but it's nearly 12 hours later and

the activity manager is saying that the system has downloaded 283 of

4,179 emails. This isn't just slow, it's glacial. The computer has been

awake all night, but progress is unacceptably slow. And it's not like I

have tons of emails that are complex or hold a lot of data. This does

not seem right.

Mac Scan has run, and I haven't used Privacy Scan during this. The only other things I have are Privacy Badger and Blur, both of which scan the websites visited. That's it. Unless there is some way those applications could be slowing things down, I'm at a loss. Also, it is not unusual for the "Downloading Messages" prompt to pop up regularly, as though the Mail client is rebuilding on a regular basis. I'm now at message 327 of 5,422. At this rate I'll be dead before it's done.

You know, I forgot about that. Let me disable that and see if it moves things along.