Email clients cannot send. Receive only sporadically.

Hello,

I will do as you say, hopefully tonight, but tomorrow if I must.

I'm rather confused and concerned at the moment that I discovered that my iPad is doing the same thing. I didn't think to check email on that because I rarely use it for that purpose, but it seems to be suffering from a very similar problem.

Here you go: https://pastebin.com/zRD71TWu

Some extra info:

• simpleprojectsearch.plist keeps reappearing and I keep removing it.
• simpleprojectsearchdaemon.plist keeps reappearing in the list, but when I click "remove," a popup appears stating that it's actually not there after all.
• I removed Cooliris and the same issue is happening as the daemon.
• Is there a way to properly refresh Etrecheck so that the above two points don't keep happening?
• Safari performance is drastically improved.

One more note: About three days ago, all email mysteriously began working again.

I've probably got a lot of junk on my computer that could stand to be removed. What would be the best way to go about identifying useless stuff and getting rid of it? It is high time to clear out the garbage to prevent things like this from happening.

Wow, I never would have figured out all that on my own. Thanks!

To answer two questions:

I do have an anti-virus, but it only runs when I say so, not continuously. I ran it and it came up nothing.

I also recently downloaded an app called "AppCleaner." From what I understand, it's just an uninstaller. I used it to get rid of the Adblock app, which was doing a lot of phantom tasks in the background.

First, as you said, I booted in safe mode and email worked. Upon returning to regular mode, the emails were still not functioning. I ran through all your steps (no lie. I'm not sure what all that was). Nevertheless, everything appears to be working now!

Thanks again very much!

Unfortunately, the news has turned not so good. When I started my computer this morning, everything went back to the way it was before. I checked the settings that you had me change and everything is still changed just as I put them in last night. Nevertheless, the email is not working again.

I do have time machine. Am I going to need to do some sort of restore?

Here's the requested Pastebin: https://pastebin.com/1xdU2RuJ

Seems that I have more background crap going on than I thought. I probably need a good cleanup program, but I'm not really sure which one to trust.

As for the iPad, I had the email problem while I was at work. When I got home, all of it started working again just fine.

Nevertheless, I have restarted my modem/router.

That seems to have improved overall performance. :) There's probably other junk in there that could go, like the Kodak printer thingy.

Email is still messed up, though, but having this performance improvement has been helpful regardless.

I've been hesitant to upgrade to Catalina since I don't know what's going to happen to my iTunes library and I wouldn't like to lose my dashboard, but I'm starting to wonder if that's going to be the only way to fix this.

Yikes. I thought I uninstalled Cooliris ages ago. I see from the discussions that it is an insidious little piece of junk.

Current status:

Whenever I start Etrecheck, it says all of the above files are still there, but when I click "remove," it says they are actually gone and the alert disappears. I can't figure out how to refresh Etrecheck so that it stops doing that.

Since removing the Cooliris files, Safari runs quite a bit better. It used to be so slow that I quit using it altogether in favor of Brave and Firefox.

Email is still borked.

I'm actually kinda grateful for the email going bad because I'm now cleaning up a lot of junk that was causing problems that I didn't even know about.