Re: Mac mail

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Mac mail
Date	2015-09-06 03:09 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnmunbm8.213c.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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  Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-09-05 09:51, Lewis wrote:
>> In message <d4ufvcFq8iU1@mid.individual.net>
>>    Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On 2015-09-04, Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> On 2015-09-04 10:54, Jolly Roger wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-09-04, 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've had that setting enable itself, but it hasn't ever caused a problem
>>>>> for me.
>>>>>
>>>> We've been over this ground before.  I've seen it regularly (some upset
>>>> event once every month or so) as have others.
>>
>>> Yes, you've said so before. I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just
>>> pointing out that, unlike you, the setting change hasn't caused any
>>> apparent problems here.
>>
>> Nor has it for the majority of users. I like how Alan says "some users
>> never see it" implying that most do. The fact is, nearly no one has a
>> problem with this setting.

> I wasn't implying that most do see it.  From all reports most do not. 
> But there is significant reporting of the issue (which a simple web 
> search will reveal).

"Significant" is your belife based on pretty much no evidence. You can
find people complaining about ANYTHING on a web search. So what?

> Apple acknowledge it as a bug in Bug Reporter (and claim it was fixed in 
> 10.10.2 - (it is not fixed whatever they say).  Would Apple declare a 
> fix for something that wasn't fixed or significant?

No one has ever said it never happened. However, it is 1) a rare event
2) trivially easy to fix 3) has been fixed as far as I can tell.


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  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
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        Re: Mac mail Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-04 14:54 +0000
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          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
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          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
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                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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