My Leopard IMAP is breaking my Email

I don't have all the facts yet, but since setting up Mail on my new iMac in Leopard, I haven't been able to receive email. That's since Monday! Just figured out that shutting down mail on my iMac makes email work again. I can then check the mail with a web browser on my iMac or I can check in Mail in Tiger on my MacBook Pro. Just a little heads up.

Comments

[Ian Betteridge]

This sounds like a problem I had when I first got Leopard. Check to see if Mail is downloading big chunks of old mail in the background - while its doing that, it doesn't download new mail. For me, it eventually started working once it had downloaded a full set if headers from Gmail and indexed them. Hope that helps!

[john.jones.name]

Apple Mail is multithreaded and this means often its off downloading things (while you wish it was not)

First of all Leopard should have upgraded your mail Database and if you can see some Email then you should be fine

to find out what it is currently doing i.e. what its jobs are

open the activity view window by using the 'apple key' and '0' or select it from the window menu item in Mail

you can stop task's by hitting the big red stop symbol very satisfying to some

hope this helps

regards

John