Mail not fetching new messages from GoDaddy IMAP

I have the exact same problem. Ever since updating to Yosemite and even updating to 10.10.1 did not fix the issue.

I also have a GoDaddy IMAP account and the Mail.app will not retrieve it's incoming mail. It will send perfectly fine though. And my iCloud account sends & receives fine as well.

I have tried all the "Check for new messages" settings and none of them work.

I have only found 3 things that work: Rebuilding the Mailbox, restarting the Mail.app or as with CTM, "Synchronize All Accounts" - needless to say that these are all unacceptable because I'm constantly missing important emails and this is my business account.

I have tried non-SSL and SSL and changed the ports accordingly as per GoDaddy's online help suggestions as well and that also did not fix it.

As with CTM, I have 2 iPhones & 2 iPads and the GoDaddy IMAP account emails are received perfectly & immediately on all those iDevices.

And as with CTM, I can also see it checking the GoDaddy IMAP account via the Activity window but it never grabs the new messages.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Or a work-around? I hope so because this is incredibly frustrating. Thanks!

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), 3.5GHz Intel Core i7, 32GB, 27"

I have had the same problems starting with Mavericks and continuing with Yosemite. It affects my goDaddy IMAP and my Gmail account as well.

I have the same problem...IMAP not retrieving messages (I saw I could take all accounts offline and then back online).

I was also having the Mail memory leak issue and saw I should post here. I have had Mail crash on me too.

My situation is exactly the same. In fact, my inbox continues to stop syncing at the same point. I have this configured on two different MacBooks and the inbox stops on the same email. Occasionally over time, the inbox will fetch a few more emails and stop...again at the same point on both laptops. It appears to be related to memory as well as the lack of syncing correctly. My activity monitors does seem to hang up on the trash at times. I tried not copying deleted files to the server, but that didn't work either. Rebuilding doesn't work, nor does rebooting everything.

Please help.

Mail stops fetching my GoDaddy accounts only. I have .mac, gmail, other imap accounts that are fine. I can see on my iPhone and or my iPad when mail comes in, but unless I quit Mail on my MBP, it can take hours to sync those GoDaddy accounts. Can't continue like this. I had the memory leak issue but that is now remedied.

Yosemite 10.10.1

MacBook Pro Retina 15" early 2013

16 GB RAM

Hi, I think the new system update will have some small problems

Hi Hello Mac, this has nothing, per se, to do with the update. We've had this problem since installing Yosemite 10.10 and some have had the issue on Mavericks as well. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks!

It seems that after upgrading 10.10.1 more problems then I do not need to upgrade,Thank you!

By the way, since these issues have come up, I've tried to use Outlook for Mac 2011 and Postbox, both are prone to errors on these GoDaddy accounts. I'd say this is a GoDaddy issue, but why never a single problem on my iPhone or iPad? Is it simply a Yosemite conflict and not a Mail conflict?

Wow, that's crazy lunartide, I'm running Postbox parallel to my Mail.app so I'll know when I get a GoDaddy email and it retrieves the emails perfectly, which led me to believe this was on issue with the Apple Mail.app & my issues never started until I installed Yosemite also. And you and I are also on the same page, all iDevice GoDaddy email retrievals seems to fine and that also seems to be the censuses.

I have been having problems with Mail on OS X as well as iOS for the last year. On iOS, started using CloudMagic to access my GoDaddy IMAP accounts which works perfectly.

On my Mac, the problem with GoDaddy IMAP emails has existed for me since Mavericks and through Yosemite. I don't remember if it was there for cat versions.

This is definitely a GoDaddy issue. I have looked into changing hosting companies but then realized I would lose all my emails that are stored on GoDaddy's servers. HOWEVER, given that other email clients on iOS (CLoudmagic) and OS X (Sparrow Lite which I downloaded today) seem to work with GoDaddy, I still say Apple Mail is at fault...what ever happened to "it just works"?

You don't need to close mail entirely. You can open mail preferences, go to accounts and toggle the activate account button off and then on again. Seems to trigger mail to start coming again.

Same boat here. Have had the problem for a while. I would love to see a fix to this intermittent issue.

Same problem here.

I switch between an iMac and a Macbook Pro throughout the day, and not sure if it's coincidence or not, but it always seems to be that the computer I'm on is the one that does NOT receive the mail....

Going to Mailbox - Take All Accounts Offline, then putting them all back online again normally does the trick... Though sometimes Mail will freeze and I have to force quit when I select Take All Accounts Offline...

This has been happening since Mavericks....

Only happens to my GoDaddy IMAP account, iCloud is fine. All mail comes in to iOS devices.

Question. Everyone that has been doing this, "Take All Accounts Offline", does doing this, Mailbox - Rebuild - work or not work for you guys as well? Thanks!