Q: Mavericks Mail not sync'ing IMAP act. (Not GMail)

I'll tell you one thing... heheheh... if Steve was having this issues on his Mac while he was alive, this s*** would have been sorted out a few days after the release.

The GoDaddy and Gmail problems extend back a long way, and are not limited to Mail on a Mac. Gmail has been flaky since its inception many years ago. Both of these accounts were problematic long before Steve died.

Choosing to wait for 'someone' to fix it is one way to deal with it, a far faster method would be to use an email system that actually complies with the standards, or a client that can deal with the non standard systems.

But it's your choice.

I agree with you, there is a problem here, but it needs to be identified before it can be fixed.

Read this (and other threads on the same subject) a percentage of posters had the issue fixed by various rather basic configuration changes, not always the same changes and sometimes the changes did not work. This tells me that there are several (probably installation specific) problems with differing requirements to resolve. That does not suggest a system wide 'bug' that has one 'fix'

Sadly many here seem to have come to complain rather than take the steps to properly troubleshoot the issue.

Disclosure: I have no problem getting Godaddy, Gmail or Google Apps email accounts working correctly. Fortunately I do not have to use either, I just use them as test installations.

The GoDaddy and Gmail problems extend back a long way, and are not limited to Mail on a Mac. Gmail has been flaky since its inception many years ago. Both of these accounts were problematic long before Steve died.

Like others have commented, this problem is brand new with OS X 10.9 and I don't use the two email providers that keep coming up here as known problem children.  In fact, I've used Fastmail for many years and it's integration with Apple Mail IMAP was perfect until the day Apple released Mavericks.  And Fastmail is not the problem, either, as iOS operation with it is faultless.

Then clearly the best course of action for you is to do nothing while you wait for the fix.

Many of the posters who did have the problem and took remedial action now no longer have the problem so (as the target keeps moving) it may take a while.

James Merwin wrote:

 

The GoDaddy and Gmail problems extend back a long way, and are not limited to Mail on a Mac. Gmail has been flaky since its inception many years ago. Both of these accounts were problematic long before Steve died.

 

Like others have commented, this problem is brand new with OS X 10.9 and I don't use the two email providers that keep coming up here as known problem children.  In fact, I've used Fastmail for many years and it's integration with Apple Mail IMAP was perfect until the day Apple released Mavericks.  And Fastmail is not the problem, either, as iOS operation with it is faultless.

As I said before, you have a choice, do nothing and wait in the assumption that someone will fix it.

Or do something,

You will decide what you choose to do.

Scott Finlayson wrote:

 

mumbles2701 wrote:

 

The same compnay and same set up on 10.8 worked perfectly.

 

This is a key thing to remember - the same with me. I have had my email addy since around 1998... it has passed along from OS to OS... computer to computer. Never have I had this issue before. Granted, I have only been IMAP for maybe 6-7 years, but still flawless for years until 10.9 - seems pretty cut-n-dry to me.

+1

Been having this problem for weeks with 3 different email providers!  Just now installed Thunderbird and everything works perfectly with all 3 accounts (godaddy, charter.net, bresnan.net).  So it's definitely a problem only with the Mac Mail app.

If you have Little Snitch or HandsOff or another firewall, make sure that you haven't blocked apps that you don't understand.  After clearing all those I didn't actually know I wanted blocked, Mail started working properly...finally.

I switched to Thunderbird ...  very simple to set up and it's working perfectly

Will go back to Mail if they get this problem solved.

i did not inhale wrote:

 

1) Quit Mail

2) Delete Google Mail Account from "Internet Accounts" in System Preferences

2) Delete Mail folder in ~/Library

3) Restart and then empty trash.

4) Open Mail, go to Mail-->Preferences-->Accounts-->+ to add a new account, select Google, type your info in, but then go to the account in the list and change your username to your FULL email address.

 

I followed your instructions -- very simple.

Since re-adding my Mail account settings about 3 hours ago, everything has been working correctly.

Will check back tomorrow.

 

Thanks!

Follow up:

After 1.5 days of syncing properly, everything in Mail reverted back to its old behaviour of not syncing with iOS or gmail web in all 3 mail accounts.

larryfromsantarosa wrote:

 

If you have Little Snitch or HandsOff or another firewall, make sure that you haven't blocked apps that you don't understand.  After clearing all those I didn't actually know I wanted blocked, Mail started working properly...finally.

Good suggestion, larry.

Tried turning off Little Snitch for a while, but that didn't change the Mail.app syncing problems.

Thanks.

For what it is worth, I could not wait for this to be resolved and I too tried all the workarounds.  Thus, I downloaded and installed PostBox and it seems really great.  30 day trial and then $10.  This gave me immediate access to the mail I needed and maybe the 30 days will be enough for Apple to resolve their issue.

Thanks to everyone for all the informative posts about the different solutions being attempted.  I was the initial person on this thread to suggest "Uncheck All Mail" in Gmail settings.  Like all other solutions, this seemed to work for a period of time, but then erratically thereafter.  I became a Mac user in 2009 after amy years of frustrated use of PCs "blue-screening", not booting, getting viruses, etc.  This switch to Mac has been an incredible experience as Mac simply does everything welll that  a PC does not.  My Mac's never blue-screened, failed for any reason.  The use of Time Machine has saved me time and time again when I inadvertently delete files.  I migrated my family of 5 to Mac products, and transitions from one Mac to the next are seemless as well.  I have never experienced an issue where the Apple team came up short finding an update that would eventually correct an issue cause by an upgrade to OSX, or just about any other software related issue....that is until the upgrade to OSX 10.9 and the loss of functionality to Mail w IMAP accounts.

IMAP has been around as an email protocol forever and as other users have posted, Mail is one of the most used programs on a Mac.  Howver the break down with Gmail renders Mail useless...no sync functionality w iPads or iPhones, let alone the Gmail web app.  I am power Gmail user for personal email and simply cannot organize my life without Gmail.  Today, I gave up.  A user earlier posted that Thunderbird works perfectly w Gmail on OSX 10.9.2...and it does!!!  Instant email retrieval when received.  eMails filed to a folder instantly are filed on the iPhone, iPad and Gmail Web app.  It is not as pretty as Mail, but it works, which is the bottom line. 

So my recommendation to all the frustrated Gmail users who have posted on this thread is to switch to Thunderbird and keep Mail closed.  Maybe check in again on Mail after 1 or 2 updates, but otherwise keep it closed.  As Scott Finlayson said well, the non-sync issue of Mail/IMAP on 10.9.2 is a Mac development issue.  Until Apple figures out why Gmail is broken, don't sweat it.  Use Thunderbird and live a stress free life