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My pop. mail account stopped working, and all suggestions I can find, said to delete and recreate the account. Simple enough. But this isn't generating the account, and doesn't even time out.
It allows me to add my credentials, and when I click add or next, it just goes into never never land
Account is good. Works on my phone perfectly. This has happened a couple of times now
Several people have had the same problem, no one single cure that I've seen. :(
Quit mail.
Finder>Go>Go to Folder, copy & Paste:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Highlight all the contents.
Then right-click and choose "New Folder with Selection”. Do not move the new folder from this current location.
You can close the Finder window.
The next step will be to restart the Mac and test
Cant create re add Mail
James Walker1
User level:
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Notebooks
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Mar 1, 2019 10:39 AM in response to if240
I was having this problem trying to add a mail (not gmail) account just for Notes. In my ~/Library/Keychains folder, I found a subfolder with a long hexadecimal and hyphens name. I deleted that subfolder, logged out, and logged back in. I was then able to add the account, without having lost any passwords from my keychains.
Possible eMail fix…
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8393897?answerId=250408740022#250408740022
Or start over with Mail…
Quit Mail.
In the Finder, hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the menu bar. Move the following items from the folder that opens to the Trash (some may not exist):
• Caches/com.apple.mail
• Saved Application State/com.apple.mail.savedState
• Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
• Containers/com.apple.mail
• Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
• Preferences/com.apple.mail.searchhistory.plist
Note: you are not moving the Mail application. You’re moving a folder named “Mail.”
Ah, thanks, might follow up with this...
EtreCheck is a simple little app to display the important details of your system configuration and allow you to copy that information to the Clipboard. It is meant to be used with Apple Support Communities to help people help you with your Mac.
http://www.etresoft.com/etrecheck
Pastebin is a good place to paste the whole report...
Workable but harder for me to work with...the Note tool on the bottom of this editor's toolbar, as shown in the image, to copy and paste the output from EtreCheck.
Try it in Safe Mode...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at startup), does the problem occur in Safe Mode?
Same problem. No errors
tried the first part, now I still cannot connect to the account,
Tried the keychain thing earlier. nothing
Removing all those folders didn't help either
I'm stumped, we need more help in here.
It has happened a couple of times. seems to possibly be after OS updates. Wish I could remember how I got it to work in past.
I certainly wish I knew the cure, if you find out please post it.
Seems had some malware that must have been causing problems. Downloaded trend micro from App Store
Adding Mail Account Mac Mojave just keeps spinning
