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Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ...

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On 5 Aug 2025 at 20:33:19 BST, "Another John" <lalaw44@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've been having Mail problems for over two weeks now. Still looking for help
> ...
> 
> The symptom is that I cannot send emails (I receive emails OK). There seems to
> be a mistmatch between Mail and Gail (my email server). I click the Send icon,
> it greys out, and hangs there doing nothing. I'm using it on a 2019 iMac,
> under Sequoia 15.5.   [blah blah ad nauseam]

Replying to myself, simply to say: the problems now seem to have “gone away”.

I use that expression because I cannot say that “I fixed it” -- because I do
not know what I might have done to fix it.
I spent over three weeks of floundering around in the impenetrable jungles of
(a) Google and (b) Apple (who both seem to hold the view that the other does
not exist, and therefore problems of interworking do not exist either).

I won’t go into details - I haven’t the time, or (these days) the capacity to
remember! Several possible causes were suggested here, or uncovered by my
"floundering around". I eventually tried all of those, so there may have been
a combined effect. I never found anything that could have been a _reason_ for
this happening in the first place.


One thing I did discover, and this is bizarre: the specific symptom of the
"Send" icon (paper plane) greying out.
Incredibly, it seems to send if (1) I click the Send icon AND THEN (2) if I
position the cursor afte the last character in the message itself AND THEN (3)
press Return.  So far this has worked every time I’ve tried it. (Almost as
though clicking the icon is a mouse-button down, and pressing Return is a MB
up.

I discovered this by getting to the end of my tether, and pressing the Return
key fiercely several times, as one used to do (or still does) when any piece
of technology "wouldn’t work”.  (You can imagine my face when - after three
weeks - this actually sent a message.)

But (mostly) I  don't even seem to have to do that, now.

Another John

PS I don't think much of Sequoia, and I'm tempted to think that 15.5 was at
least in part responsible for the whole fiasco.

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STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-05 19:33 +0000
  Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-06 00:56 +0100
    Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-08-14 09:13 +0100
  Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-20 15:59 +0000
    Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-08-20 18:14 +0100

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