Is there a way to trash prefs for the Apple Mail app?

[John Davidson]

Are you iMAP or Pop? I’m assuming you have your own dedicated server for your site? Last week I ran into holy heck with my father-in-laws gmail in Apple Mail. Turns out he had a ridiculous number of emails with attachments that needed to download. Once I left it up for a few hours / overnight, it started working smoothly again.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[John Davidson]

What I mean by your own server is a service like hostgator or go daddy, not an actual server :). It’s could be an issue with your host, or perhaps your ISP is blocking a port that needs to be changed.

John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.

[David Roth weiss]

[John Davidson] “What I mean by your own server is a service like hostgator or go daddy, not an actual server :). It’s could be an issue with your host, or perhaps your ISP is blocking a port that needs to be changed.”

Bingo! I am with GoDaddy and calling them was precisely what my next step was going to be. Thanks for confirming that idea John…

Meanwhile, have a terrific holiday and I’ll see you on the other side in 2012.

THNX,
David

David Roth Weiss
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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
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[Chris Gordon]

Like John said, the mailbox going on and offline a lot is probably some kind of network issue or problem with the server (service) you are using.

If you really want to “trash prefs”, you can. You need to get two different places (where ~ is your home directory, typically /Users/[username]):
~/Library/Prefrences/com.apple.mail.plist
~/Library/Mail/
This will also nuke any mail you have stored locally and indexes and cached mail for remotely stored (IMAP, Exchange) accounts.

Though “trashing prefs” seems to be something that makes Final Cut less grumpy at times, I’ve not run into a case where that is really needed or useful for Mail or any thing else (maybe I’ve just been lucky).

If you have other questions or want to be more precise about what gets trashed, let me know and i can help dig those details out.

[David Roth weiss]

[Chris Gordon] “Though “trashing prefs” seems to be something that makes Final Cut less grumpy at times, I’ve not run into a case where that is really needed or useful for Mail or any thing else (maybe I’ve just been lucky).
“

Good advice Chris, and I’ll definitely heed it. Thnx!!!

[Chris Gordon] “If you have other questions or want to be more precise about what gets trashed, let me know and i can help dig those details out.
“

Appreciate the offer…

Happy New Year!!!

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
https://www.drwfilms.com

Don’t miss my new Creative Cow Podcast: Bringing “The Whale” to the Big Screen:
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