Re: Mac mail

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mac mail
Date	2015-09-05 13:53 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnmult2n.1f5s.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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In message <1976224792463083846.369986drache-notchibardun.net@news.eternal-september.org> 
  Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> wrote:
> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2015-09-03 15:20, Erilar wrote:
>>> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2015-09-03 10:58, Frank wrote:
>>>>> I have one telephone and a Mac mini plugged in on one level  of the
>>>>> house and an iMac on the other level.   Can I set up mail so that I
>>>>> receive it on both?  I want to have all in and out mail on both
>>>>> machines so I can utilize either machine and have all the
>>>>> transactions also viewable on the other? I want to use mail that
>>>>> comes with machine and not webmail.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> IMAP.  This is also supported by Gmail (and other Webmails) if you're so
>>>> infected.  Gmail's IMAP is a little screwy and Apple Mail does funny
>>>> things to settings on occasion (like reconfiguring ports to its preferences.
>>> 
>>> I don't recall noticing funny things happening to my settings 8-). I've had
>>> IMAP for years, and my main email turns up on both laptops as well as iPad.
>>> . And all can be accessed via my ISPs webmail, too. IPad has an iCloud
>>> account, too.
>> 
>> This is a well known problem.  Some users never see it.  Others are
>> plagued by it.  A couple days ago, Mail spontaneously changed the "Allow
>> insecure authentication" setting of one of my POP accounts.
>> 
>> Last month, (10.10.5 update) IMAP settings on my iMac changed and had to
>> be fixed on 2 accounts.


> Oh, a few months back, Mail quit in all my accounts; there was some kind of
> forced "upgrade" or something.  I had to call my ISPs tech help to get all
> my IMAP settings done over from scratch.  Never got any explanation, much
> less warning, from Apple. 

You are totally and completely full of shit.

I've been using Mail.app since OS X Public Beta and it has *never* done
anything that required redoing IMAP settings. Never.

Not only that, but I have dealt with literally hundreds of Macs for
other people and, again, that has never happened.

YOU fucked up something, clearly.

-- 
It's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo

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Mac mail Frank <gno52@windstream.net> - 2015-09-03 07:58 -0700
  Re: Mac mail nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-03 11:03 -0400
  Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-03 11:39 -0400
    Re: Mac mail Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-09-03 19:20 +0000
      Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-04 08:26 -0400
        Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-04 14:54 +0000
          Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-04 16:45 -0400
            Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-04 21:15 +0000
              Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-05 13:51 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 10:36 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 03:09 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-06 10:47 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-05 14:53 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-05 11:09 -0700
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 17:53 -0400
          Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-05 13:49 +0000
            Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 10:08 -0400
        Re: Mac mail Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-09-04 18:28 +0000
          Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-04 19:19 +0000
            Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-04 16:49 -0400
              Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-04 22:25 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-04 18:50 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-05 13:57 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 10:20 -0400
            Re: Mac mail Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-09-08 12:37 +0000
          Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-04 16:46 -0400
          Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-05 13:53 +0000
            Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-05 10:16 -0400
              Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-06 03:05 +0000
            Re: Mac mail Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-09-08 12:37 +0000
              Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-09 02:16 +0000
            Re: Mac mail erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2015-09-24 17:31 -0500
              Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-24 18:39 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2015-09-25 11:03 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-25 11:21 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 15:32 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-25 09:04 -0700
                Re: Mac mail Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-25 12:25 -0400
                Re: Mac mail Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-25 16:26 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-26 00:13 +0000
              Re: Mac mail David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-09-24 18:48 -0500
                Re: Mac mail Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-09-25 21:00 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 21:36 +0000
                Re: Mac mail David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-09-26 00:46 -0500
                Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-26 16:22 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-26 00:15 +0000
              Re: Mac mail Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-25 06:11 +0000
                Re: Mac mail Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-09-25 21:00 +0000
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