since loading mountain lion on my macbook pro, my apple mail accounts go offline every time my computer go's to sleep and is reopened. so far the only fix I can find is to quit mail and reopen. this fixes it every time. the same is happening on a mac air i use...different ID and mail accounts. has anyone found a permanent fix for this?
MacBook Pro, iOS 6
I have the exact same problem, on my desktop and MacBook Pro... Very irritating! The only fix I have found is the one you've suggested. Any other ideas out there??
drey,
What OS are you running?
got up again this morning and its the same again...here's the screen shot:.......Help anyone...as i come and go from my computer 30 times a day perhaps, having to quit mail and then reopen it every time is really annoyng....
Danny, same question. What OS are you running?
OS X 10.8.2
My Mail program looks exactly the same, Danny. Over and over on different Mac computers (desktop and MacBook Pro), several times a day. I don't get it. Sometimes, if I wait, it will seem to remedy the issue itself. But it's easier (but still annoying) to have to close the Mail program and open again to get it to work.
Hi Dale, I am running 10.8.2 on both my Macpro and MacAir.
Some problems like this can be fixed (at least for a while) by choosing "take all accounts online" from the Mailbox menu.
When I hd problems like this and hige lags in responsiveness, weeding the
Window > Previous recipients ...
...window fixed things up quite a bit. It seemed to be getting lost down in the bowels of those lists.
Hi Grant, sadly I have tried that too but it doesnt resolve it in my case. If i dont quit mail and reopen, and simply wait for it to correct itself, it hasnt been able to so far.
Maybe someone in the 10.8 Mail forum can help you guys. Best place to post it.
DALE
thanks Dale, will try that. cheers
The same thing was happening to me. I upgraded to Mt. Lion and every morning when I woke up my computer, my mail was offline and the only thing I could do was restart my computer. Quitting mail and reopening was not enough. So what I finally did and what may be a solution for others is to go into Mail preferences and delete your entire account with the minus sign then rebuild it from scratch, but make sure you have all of your account info like user name and incoming mail server, etc. Now every morning when I wake my computer, Mail is up and running with no issues. Hope that helps.
Pardon the amateurish question, but when you delete your account and reset all the configurations, do you lose all of your email messages in the process? I would like to try this: I have the SAME problem with a week-old Macbook Air and the latest OSX/Mail application. The problem exists with less persistence on the Macbook Pro (an old model). Thank you!
Fujishi, Does your mail come from another e-mail program such as Yahoo or G-Mail and then load to Apple Mail?
apple mail keeps going offline!
