When I wake my computer up from sleep all the Mail and Calendar accounts are offline?

I have this issue as well. VERY annoying to not have Mail working.

Same here, it's really annoying and the connection doctor or trying to take my accounts online does nothing! This needs to be fixed soonest!

Exact same problem here on two different macs. I have to reboot mail every time I restart the machine or wake it from sleep. Very annoying indeed.

I have the exact opposite problem on new macbook pro with retina display running mountain lion. i set all mail accounts to offline when i am away from the computer (so messages are not deleted from server and i can check them on iphone or ipad until i am back at my desk) and when the computer goes to sleep, all the mail accounts spontaneoulsy go back ONLINE.

Irritating me too now. Thought is was a one off but noticed that it happens each time I wake the computer.

HI, i am having the same problem, anyone found a way to fix this? my Yahoo! Mail is offline upon wake, noticed that the WIFI takes longer to wake too? maybe something to do with it?

Similar problem.

Everytime I launch email, it tries tp set accounts nline that I have specifically made offline.

I upgraded to Mountain Lion two weeks ago, yesterday all Outgoing Mail Servers went offline. I have one icloud account, two gmail.com accounts and thre domain email accounts hosted at Bluehost.com. The iCloud and one Gmail accounts were iMAP, the others POP3.

All accounts are (offline) - entering the correct password doesn't help.

JF

Same issue with mail but only since I installed the 10.8.1 update!

My iCloud and Gmail IMAP accounts stop working after resuming from sleep.

Mailboxes offline:

Connection Doctor:

Prior to the 10.8.1 update Mountain Lion (10.8) mail would keep asking for the password for my Gmail account but his seems to have been fixed in 10.8.1. Now I have this problem after closing my MBP lid.

MacBookPro8,1

OS X 10.8.1

# MBP #mail.app #10.8.1 #6.0 #not working after sleep #IMAP #Mountain Lion #Gmail #iCloud #Offline

Same here. After upgrade from lion to mountain lion mail accounts (imap > pop, most smtp) go offline after wakong my mac pro from sleep. Upgrade 10.8.1 does not change this odd behaviour. As I heard from a friend with 10.8.2 this won´t help to.

Did anything: flush cache, repairing rights incl. "Restting home directory permissions and ACLs", deleting prefs, resetting accounts etc. - nothing helps.

Quitting Mail and restart: everything is fine until next awakening from sleep.

Please Apple: help stopping this.

Sincerely

Heliophon

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Mac Pro 2008, 2x2,8 GHz,14 GB, 10.8.1

Further to my previous post... I think I may have stumbled uppon a solution.

Summary: When I fixed a problem with dictation, mail started working again.

Background: I noticed that after upgrading to 10.8.1 the dictation feature no longer worked. When I pressed [fn] twice the dictation bubble would appear, three dots in it would shake and then it beeped. No dictation. I searched for a solution, tried it out and dictation worked again. Then, this morning I opened up my Mac and mail sucessfully downloaded without having to restart mail.app!

Solution: This is a fix for dictation issues so don't blame me if it messes up your perfectly working dictation! However, it appears to have fixed my mail problems:

Locate and delete the file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.assistant.plist (Finder’s Go and press and hold Alt option). Then restart your Mac, turn off Dictation (Apple > System Preferences, click Dictation & Speech, and then click Dictation) and reboot your Mac a second time and try again.

The original thread is here.

So, a random "solution" with beneficial side effects! Let me know it works for you.

#Solution #Dictation #com.apple.assistant.plist

#MBP #mail.app #10.8.1 #6.0 #not working after sleep #IMAP #Mountain Lion #Gmail #iCloud #Offline

Hi or Good Morning from Germany,

by now the aforementioned fix seems to work for me.

One question: what happens if I turn dictation "on" again".

Sincerely,

Heliophon

Hi Heliophon

Yes dictation can be turned. I should have said that - thanks for asking.

Here are the instructions from the original thread:

1) Locate and delete the file: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.assistant.plist

You can access the user Library folder if you click on Finder's CD menu on top left and then press & hold ALT (option) key on the keyboard. Library will appear and you can select it. Then you open Preferences and you find com.apple.assistant.plist file and move it to the trash.

2) Reboot Mac

3) Turn off Dictation in System Preferences / Dictation & Speech

4) Turn Dictation back on again

5) Reboot Mac

6) Try again

I'm glad it worked for you!

Forgot to mention that dictation can be turned on again after this (thanks Heliophon).