Mail.app Hates Me And My Mail

February 27, 2006 11:45 PM

I have a Gmail account and a university email account (IMAP), both configured through OSX's Mail (the IMAP is only for sending mail; all incoming mail comes through the Gmail account). Lately, none of my email has been showing up in Mail (I know this because I've started keeping Gmail Notifier on the menubar as a double-check). It's not just that it takes a while to collect; it just never actually appears in my Mail.app inbox. I've double checked all my settings against Google's instructions, and even removed and re-added the mailbox. Any ideas as to what could have gone wrong and how I could fix it?
posted by rossination to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Have you checked your firewall settings? Since Gmail POP is a non-standard port (if I remember correctly) if a firewall is in effect, or if your university has a firewall, then that might be the cause of your problems..
posted by provolot at 12:25 AM on February 28, 2006

Yes, this happened to me. I deleted the gmail account completely from Mail.app (you can keep the mail of course), and set it up from scratch (there are instructions on gmail's site). Then it was magically better.
posted by beniamino at 12:25 AM on February 28, 2006

Response by poster: Yeah, I tried deleting the account, and it didn't seem to work. The firewall suggestion is a good one too -- (:D), but I checked the settings and they're fine.

Double-true!, er, false.
posted by rossination at 12:30 AM on February 28, 2006

FWIW I've never been able to make this work either. Looking forward to any answers.
posted by carter at 8:28 AM on February 28, 2006