I just installed Mountain Lion. Problem is that Mail will not send emails anymore. New mails stack up in an Outbox On My Mac. Neither Exchange or Imap work. What's the solution?
MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion
Good news Luba. Thanks for letting me know. I'm hoping my subsequent upgrade to the new 27" iMac, plus a couple of OS updates since the problem, makes the problem history.
I really should change that user name of mine!! 🙂
Slugdog, just tried that on my Mail program. Didn't do anything. Outbox still stuck.
bmaiberger, yeah, I'm not sure the suggested fix I originally suggested fixed mine .. it may have just been a coincidence that my OUtbox emptied after that.
I've not done any extensive testing, but my Outbox still accumulates occasionally, ie. doesn't send the messages, until I quit Mail and relaunch. That's despite since updating to the new 27" iMac, 32GB RAM, Fusion, etc ... previously I thought that perhaps it had something to do with insufficient processing capacity on my 5+ year old MacBook Pro. At least now if I quit Mail and relaunch, it's quick, so although the bug remains, it's not so much of a problem for me.
For me it worked as soon as i deselected "use only this server" on my hotmail account. After that all other accounts started sending and recieving as usual.
Bingo, Richard Reilly!
As soon as I de-selected Mail from the iCloud panel in System Prefs, my outbound IMAP accounts began firing away outbound emails like a charm. Thank God it was something so simple.
As an FYI to anyone who's been on the phone with their webhost about the problem:
On their end, the issue appears to be a massive number of timeouts and connection attempts. It's not you or Mail creating the problem---the cloud is, continually banging away at your server, trying to connect (to the tune of thousands of attempts in a single day sometimes). That's too much for most servers---I'm on a VPS and even then, it was kicking the **** out of the machine.
De-select the Mail option in your iCloud panel first. If that doesn't do the trick, then call your webhost. 🙂
I had the same problem of unsent emails collecting in the Outbox, and Richard Reilly's tip did the job perfectly and easily. I just deselected Mail from iCloud and everything whizzed away, and still does. So simple. Thanks, Richard Reilly.
Mountain Lion mail send problem
