Hi, My SEND button has disappeared from my Apple Mail & proceeding to VIEW Customise toolbar brings up the dialogue box with no SEND button icon to drag & drop to my desktop.

Everything I said above is true.

And I have done a search and not found any widespread outbreak of this issue. The most recent question about it was in June 2015 but most were years before that.

Back to your issue... it seems that there are a couple of things that will make the send button disappear.

• The SMTP (outgoing mail) server is not defined for the selected email account. Check this by going to Mail -> Preferences -> Accounts -> select the accout -> Account information and ensuring that the proper SMTP server is selected in the drop down menu.
• The other case is that while a new message window is selected, you may need to go to the View menu and select "Show Toolbar". As you can see in the screenshot below, the send button is missing and the View menu has "Show Toolbar" as an option.

The send button only appears when you are working working in a new message or in a reply. It is not in the general message view.

Is it missing when you create a new message or reply to a message?

alan,s imac wrote:

Hello Duane,

Sincere thanks for your response. However, I have lost the "paper Dart" for the SEND facility even in "new messages" it does not appear when I need to send mail. It appears to be a common problem if you read the forums. ...

😁 That is hilarious and incorrect! I read the forums constantly providing help and support. I would argue that it is not as common as you believe since I have never seen it posted here.

This started about 3 weeks ago.

The Send icon does not appear in the tool bar when writing a Reply.

The Send icon does not appear in the Default Tool Bar.

The Send icon does appear when writing a New Message.

Today is the first time this has ever happened. No send button. The only way I can send it from the top menu or with keys option, shift, D. I have no sound either. Is this due to some upgrade recently?

i fixed it by going to View, exit full screen

The send icon, <arrow in a box> disappeared this morning - i read through the preceding comments and then went to Mail preferences. By setting the default toolbar everything re-appeared.