Oct 02, 2015 Capital Mac Service has received a variety of recent reports that the Mac OS X Mail in the new Mac OS El Capitan seems to be unexpectedly quitting when either opening mail, or, while using it. Here’s a possible solution to this new issue in El Capitan.
Capital Mac Service has received a variety of recent reports that the Mac OS X Mail in the new Mac OS El Capitan seems to be unexpectedly quitting when either opening mail, or, while using it. Here’s a possible solution to this new issue in El Capitan.
- Add or remove email accounts in Mail on Mac. Use the Mail app to send, receive, and manage email for all of your email accounts in one location. Simply add the accounts—such as iCloud, Exchange, Google, school, work, or other—you want to use in Mail.
- Private Email account setup in MacMail OS X El Capitan (SMTP/IMAP) This tutorial will show you how to set Private Email account in MacMail OS X El Capitan using IMAP for incoming and SMTP for outgoing mail. There are two possible options for incoming mail, and this article covers just one of them: IMAP.
First, a polite warning:This *may* remove any mailboxes and folders you may have setup in Mac OS X Mail. We cannot verify this since we don’t have access to any POP mail servers. Services like GMail, Yahoo, and iCloud are *not* POP-based–they are IMAP accounts and will pull the data and mailboxes back from the server. You should have a full backup of your data before attempting any of these steps.
- Quit Mac OS X Mail
- Go to the Mac OS X Finder
- Select the “Go” menu in the top menu bar
- Hold down the Option key on the keyboard while you are in the “Go” menu. You should see an item appear called “Library”
- Locate the “Mail” folder
- Drag all of the contents of the “Mail” folder to the desktop (or optionally create a folder on the desktop first and drag the contents of “Mail” into it)
- Relaunch Mac OS X Mail
At this point, Mail will most likely rebuild itself, pulling in the data from your remote IMAP accounts. If you feel that this isn’t working, or, you lost your mailboxes, you can simply do these steps in reverse, deleting the new Mail data and putting back the backups from your desktop.
Bonus Tips:
Go to System Preferences, select Internet accounts, select any inactive account names, and click minus sign. This removes old and inactive user accounts that you may not be using.
Also…
The GPGMail extension is incompatible with El Capitan. Locate the folder /Library/Mail/Bundles directory (the System Library not the user Library) and delete the GPG bundle.
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Mail User Guide
Use the Mail app to send, receive, and manage email for all of your email accounts in one location. Simply add the accounts—such as iCloud, Exchange, Google, school, work, or other—you want to use in Mail.
Add an email account
- The first time you open the Mail app on your Mac, it may prompt you to add an account. Select an account type—if you don’t see your type, select Other Mail Account—then enter your account information.
- If you already added an email account, you can still add more. In Mail, choose Mail > Add Account, select an account type, then enter your account information. Make sure the Mail checkbox is selected for the account.
- If you’re using an account on your Mac with other apps, such as Contacts or Messages, you can also use that account with Mail. In Mail, choose Mail > Accounts to open Internet Accounts preferences, select the account on the left, then select the Mail checkbox on the right.
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Temporarily stop using an email account
- In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Accounts.
- Select the account, then deselect the Mail checkbox.Now the account’s messages are not shown in Mail.
To use the account again with Mail, select the Mail checkbox; the account’s messages are shown again (they don’t need to be downloaded from the server again).
Remove an email account
When you remove an email account from Mail, the account’s messages are deleted and no longer available on your Mac. Copies of messages remain on the account’s mail server and are still available (from webmail, for example).
Important: If you’re unsure whether messages you want to keep are still on the mail server, move or copy them to a mailbox stored on your Mac (the mailbox appears in the On My Mac section in the Mail sidebar) before you delete the account in Mail.
- In the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, then click Accounts.
- Select an account, then click the Remove button .Note: If the account is used by other apps on your Mac, you’re asked to remove the account in Internet Accounts System Preferences. Click the button to open Internet Accounts, then deselect the Mail checkbox for the account. To stop using the account in all apps, make sure the account is selected, then click the Remove button .
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