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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.

Fortunately for me, my old iMac (Mojave) _does_run Mail (same ID and Gmail),
so I can use Mail properly on that.

I have danced around all the suggested solutions suggested here (thanks you!), not to mention the dozens of solutions to similar (but never exactly the same) problems on the Web. Nothing seems to work.

The one thing I haven't yet tried is to Delete the account from my Internett Accounts and then to Recreate it, which allegedly will re-set the account.

FIVE MINUTES AGO I bit the bullet and fired up Mail again in order to Delete the account (I am told that this will direct me to Systems Settings to do it there -- I wanted to do it properly).

On firing up, Mail froze! THEN I noticed that the Activity window is saying "Downloading 1,215 messages" - so it's not frozen, it's furiously downloading
I know not what. 1,215 messages from where?!?!?

Where do I go next - any more suggestions (apart from Delete/Recreate, which I _will _ try) when I've found out what the blazes Mail is up to now!

"Cheers"
John
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On 05/08/2025 20:33, Another John wrote:

On firing up, Mail froze! THEN I noticed that the Activity window is saying "Downloading 1,215 messages" - so it's not frozen, it's furiously downloading I know not what. 1,215 messages from where?!?!?

It might just be the email headers, not the whole message.
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Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, England
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Bruce wrote:

On 05/08/2025 20:33, Another John wrote:

On firing up, Mail froze! THEN I noticed that the Activity window is
saying
"Downloading 1,215 messages" - so it's not frozen, it's furiously
downloading
I know not what.-a 1,215 messages from where?!?!?

It might just be the email headers, not the whole message.

This may depend on whether you are using POP3 or SMTP.

If POP3 - and you have the account on two separate machines - then you
must make an explicit choice about what to do with downloaded emails.
I'm not familiar with Apple email clients so this might not be easy.

In principle you can accept the default which is to delete every email
from the server immediately it has been downloaded. Perversely this
usually works by downloading al the emails, then going back and deleting
them all - so if for any reason the download of ALL new emails fails
then it might start again - and get stuck. But this won't work across
two computers.

Given that you use two computers, you probably have set one or both to
retain emails on the server for some chosen period of time. So the
server could be full.

If IMAP - unless you explicitly choose to delete emails the server will
fill up. This usually requires two steps: mark for deletion, then
purge. If the synchronisation between a mail client and the server
fails in some way, then the whole process might start again, checking
(and perhaps downloading) all the messages that are on the server.
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Graham J
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Another John wrote:

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 rCLgone awayrCY.

Do you mean Gmail? I can't find a mail service called Gail

[snip tale of woe]

Have you thought about buying an email service and domain name from a competent supplier? Specifically a supplier who knows how to configure
the Mail app on Sequoia 15.5 ? I'm sure others here can recommend a
suitable organisation.

I think it is well known that messages from Gmail addresses are often
blocked as "pork luncheon meat".
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Graham J
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