Major Apple Mail Issues with GoDaddy

mammonist wrote:

For what it's worth, there are still issues between Apple Mail and Godaddy. Some of the same stuff (delays in downloading mail that otherwise appears rapidly on IOS devices, e.g.). In addition I find that godaddy email will download to my Mac momentarily and then disappear, only to reappear later. Sometimes months of inbox messages go missing, only to reappear when Mail is closed and reopened.

I thought I'd never be so happy to see a post like the one above. This is exactly the crap I've been dealing with. It was working fairly well until I upgraded to El BrokeMyMailAgain Capitan. I've been using Airmail for about a week or so and it works great. Pretty pathetic that other companies have no issues with other Mail clients but Apple can't figure this out. What a joke.

I'm dealing with the same thing. I've had issues over the past year but nothing nearly as bad as over the past few weeks. It's exactly as posted above. Everything may be there one minute and then months of emails disappear. I am EXTREMELY frustrated with this. Whoever figures this out PLEASE post the solution!!!!!

GTRBT wrote:

I'm dealing with the same thing. I've had issues over the past year but nothing nearly as bad as over the past few weeks. It's exactly as posted above. Everything may be there one minute and then months of emails disappear. I am EXTREMELY frustrated with this. Whoever figures this out PLEASE post the solution!!!!!

Unfortunately the solution is to not use Mail. Try Airmail, PostBox, Thunderbird. There's more but thats what I'm familiar with. If you do a search this has been an issue for years and Apple has decided to ignore it. With as many people complaining on the forums and comments about people calling support with Apple blaming the ISP and or mail server provider this will never end and or get resolved. Apple Mail is clearly the perfect mail program for the POP email user. If you depend on your email, use IMAP, and are running a business use another program.

I'm going to give this method a shot. How dod you get all your deleted emails back? Did you have to delete Inbox, Sent, Etc? Or just the main ones sent to you?

Do you prefer Airmail or PostBox. Been reading about both.

GTRBT wrote:

Do you prefer Airmail or PostBox. Been reading about both.

I used both and went with Airmail. Airmail just released a new version today.

You know in the last couple of weeks this problem has gotten a lot worse. Every day now (in Apple Mail) months of Godaddy emails vanish, only to return later. My wife is having a similar problem with a similar setup. Messages appear on my IOS devices long before they come into Apple Mail, and sometimes they land in my Mac's inbox, sound a "bing," and then immediately disappear.

I can't agree and sympathize with you more. I am absolutely frustrated with the situation!!!!!

Yeah, its pretty crazy there is still no fix for this yet. I've gone back and fourth with both GoDaddy and Apple and they both keep pointing to each other. "It's Godaddy's servers, It's Apple's Mail Client"... Anyways I haven't found a solid fix for this yet, but I do know that if you create the account using POP instead of IMAP it works, but then you'll have to deal with POP. It's better that the IMAP being very unreliable and glitchy. I'm doing this until they announce a fix. I don't think it's worth switching mail clients, Apple mail is a pretty solid one to begin with (minus this glitch). I also have the Apple technician team looking into my specific case. If I get this resolved I'll be sure to post it here.

Have the same exact issue. After speaking with GoDaddy - they confirmed that after the Capitan update, MacMail no longer allows POP, and that might be an issue? Very frustrating.

Haha I'm having the opposite problem... POP works and IMAP isnt...

I have had this issue forever. Apple says it's the way Godaddy works and back and forth. Makes me sick! I am considering leaving Godaddy because of it. Would love to have an answer. I love Mac Mail because of all the integration with the OS X.

This is exactly my issue. Mac Mail, GoDaddy email servers, and IMAP email accounts. POP is not an option since I could be checking and writing mail on one of 4 different devices. I don't seem to have the issue on my two iOS devices or my MacBook Air. I surmise that is has to do with the number of rules, folders and smart mailboxes I have set up on my main Mac. It seems like the messages appear, then disappear while mail is evaluating my rules, and then they don't come back unless I restart mail. Seems hardly to be a GoDaddy issue...

I'm having this same issue with GoDaddy email on my MBP Retina running Yosemite, but I'm using Thunderbird. My iPhone 6 with iOS 9.3 and Mail gets all of the messages, but the Mac does not. It's only an issue with GoDaddy accounts and I'm missing a lot of messages this way.

All of my clients are IMAP for the same reasons others use it... I need access on multiple devices.

You have joined the club! Preaching to the choir! Beating the dead horse! HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Alternatives like PostBox are subpar band-aids on this infected sore!!!!

Brian