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Exchange servers and Mavericks Mail

It loads it when you open the Mail app, but then no new messages will appear in the Exchange inbox while app is open - fetch new mail and the Activity Window show "Synchronizing Inbox" and jsut sits there and waits.. Close the app and reopen - New Mail appears. Another bug?

Mac mini (Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 23, 2013 7:42 AM

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Oct 31, 2013 11:16 AM in response to crossed-wires

I am not only having problems with Exchange folders in Mail not syncing reliably, but worse, none of my Exchange events are updating in Calendar since I installed Mavericks. I then unchecked and rechecked Calendars in the Internet Accounts and now no events exist, so it clearly can't refresh at all. I'm now having to use Outlook on my Windows 7 virtual machine in Parallels 9, and fortunately that's working. It seems that iOS 7.03 is handling the Exchange accounts fine, though.


Any ideas, anyone? I am not enjoying living in Windows 7.


Thanks,

David

Nov 3, 2013 10:40 PM in response to navodar

I had the same situation with Exchange and deleted one of the accounts. Mail seems to be syncing okay now but Calendar is still not great. Events that I create and edit in Calendar sync fine onto my iOS devices and in Outlook (on the web and in Windows 7), but events created and edited in Outlook or the iOS devices are not reliably synced in Calendar. It seems that Calendar is not reliably receiving data from the exchange server, but does send data fine. This was true of Mail but it seems to be better. The iOS devices work fine. Anyone have a solution for this?

Nov 4, 2013 6:47 PM in response to MarkElliott1010

I'm experiencing yet another type of problem...


I have Mavericks Mail with two accounts, one talking to Exchange Server 2010 and another with POP mail for my personal ISP account. Mail delivery from Exchange is slow (as others have reported), and when sending a mail item to Exchange, the Mail app often asks me to "Retry with the selected mail server". It then lets me choose between the Exchange and POP/ISP mail servers. If I select the Exchange server and click retry, the mail item gets sent very quickly.


The retry request doesn't appear to be associated with the size of the mail being sent, nor to how long I've been connected to Exchange, etc. It seems to be random. It's a nuisance, but at least it send each item when I retry as requested.

Nov 4, 2013 8:47 PM in response to MarkElliott1010

We are all wasting our time until Apple comes out with a Fix. I have spoken to Level 2 Email tech's twice now and have rebuilt everything related to mail and the problem would resurface again in a few days. My Exchange is 2012 and it worked flawless with Mountain Lion. It stil works fine with IOS 7 luckily.


At one point It would only receive emails when I closed Mail or took it offline then back online. That doesn't work anymore.


I am no Mac expert but I do own a IT Company that focuses on Microsoft managed services and am very versed in Exchange and this is not an exchange isssue from what I am seeing. At first I thought it was an Autodiscovery issue so I manually created the Internal and External Server paths but that didnt' help either. I have decided to remove my exchange account until Apple releases a fix otherwise I will be more frustrated.


Randy

Nov 5, 2013 11:00 AM in response to MarkElliott1010

I'm beginning to wonder whether the problem lies with the Mac mail app (alone) ... I am now running Mac Mail side by side with Outlook 2011, both with the same Exchange account. Today I noticed that 3 out of the 22 messages in my Inbox that I opened in Mac mail remain unopened in Outlook while on my iPhone and in OWA the mails are open as well. So at the moment only Outlook 2011 is out of sync ... I also notice a difference between working from home and working from the university. However, this difference in behaviour is not consistant.


It is getting weirder and weirder.

Exchange servers and Mavericks Mail

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