Wi-Fi or Mail problems with MacBook

Well since no one seems to have this issue I'll post what I have found if it comes up. I found this article:

http://meandmymac.net/2014/10/trouble-with-yosemite-mail/

Brief version: on each account under advanced settings TURN OFF automatically detect and maintain account settings. Whatever the programmers think this is was causing all manners of hang up in trying to synchronize IMAP accounts ranging from gmail, to icloud to our own MacOS X server and Exchange servers.

The minute I turned these off things have gotten better.

Ok I'll continue with this hoping it may be useful for others. I continue to have Mail reliability with MacBook/Yosemite and it is becoming a real issue. No matter how many times I have rebuild various mailboxes and changed settings it seems there are timeout or connection problems on the MacBook/Yosemite mail that I do not have at the same connection speeds with my MacBook 17/10.9 Mail.

Sadly this seems to follow the trend of diminishing software quality with each release of MacOS/iOS. Mail is one of the most fundamental uses of a laptop like the MacBook and as of right now with 8 IMAP accounts and a large iCloud stored set of messages it seems rather broken. I did not have these same issues with my MacBook Air 11 that was also running Yosemite.

Well three months on and here is my update from anther post:

My Mail has just gone from bad to worse with 10.10.4 on MacBook. The shift trick works WHEN Mail crashes on hanging on "opening mailbox" (I leave activity monitor open to see why I'm failing). If I don't hold shift and this happens Mail just gets stuck and trying to quit causes it to hang (need to force quit). Holding shift will allow Mail to get past this. But beyond this I have constant and intermittent connection problems with multiple IMAP accounts. And its not the server nor the connection. I have my mail accounts synced via iCloud, and the exact same connect and work perfectly in Mail on MBP 17" running 10.9.

I am really starting lose patience, this has been going on since I got the MacBook months ago. And 10.10.4 just made things worse. And there doesn't seem to be any fixes coming along. On a MacBook, which is only good for Mail and light surfing anyway, I can't use Mail reliably!

Ok I have had it, I am done. Sorry about ranting, but I just updated to 10.10.5 (14F27) and upon first lauch Mail FROZE AGAIN and had to be force quit.

I've had my MacBook now for months, and if I can't use it for basic Mail I just want to send it back and get a refund. I'll go buy another MBA 11" which worked just fine, and load 10.9 and get back to using it as a travel computer.

I understand bugs in new machines/new OS, but not significant ones like this that just keep lingering month after month and release after release.

I'll post this in case anyone manages to find this thread when searching here:

Here is what I finally did: I gave up on Mail. I think I have same issue as you, I have a few IMAPs I use for work, and lots of messages and folder.

I just downloaded PostBox (third party app). It imported my mail settings painlessly. And it is incredibly fast on launch, checking all my e-mails. It is what Mail used to be and what you would think it should be. It is easily 10x faster than Mail in connecting and checking for messages. I have very little stick time, so can't really speak to all of its ups/downs, but it may be worth a look. Only things I miss right now is there is no clear activity display (which at this point I always leave open out of inherent fear of Mail freezing up). But it has a very cool quick move of messages by one keystroke that I use all the time for filing new messages/

And oh, obviously it does not hang or crash or keep showing all accounts offline!