Every email client is different, but here is a demonstration of Gmail being set up via. It’ll give you access to Gmail, as well as many other email accounts. A desktop client like Mailbird, Outlook, or Thunderbird can enable you to work offline.
If it is, your problem is a corrupted e-mail attachment. You might see a status icon such as a lightning bolt or a warning icon next to your account's inbox in the Mail sidebar, or in the upper-right corner of the Mail window. Gmail doesn’t technically have its own desktop app, so most people download an email client. If that doesn't work, I'd quit Mail, move Mail's "Mail Downloads" folder (in your user Library folder) to the desktop, relaunch mail, and see if the problem is gone. it's usually e-mail that you would delete anyway.) If your ISP doesn't offer a Web interface, you can use: It's usually either spammy or unreadable. For starters, when I start to compose a message in mail it will do this autosaving thing that shows up in gmail as me having sent the message like 10 times to the person I'm composing the message to. Open Google’s My Account site ( and click Security (On the left navigation panel) and then scroll down and find the Less secure app access section and turn this on (note that Google recommends this OFF). I started using IMAP and gmail with mail.app, but things are a little messed up. The problematic one is usually easy to spot. 1 Changing your Gmail account’s security settings may fix this problem. The way to deal with that is to log into your ISP's mail server using the Web-based interface most ISP's provide and to delete the problematic e-mail manually. If they aren't, then you might begin suspecting a corrupted/malicious e-mail that is causing Mail to choke.
Mail Act-on, SpamSieve, GPGMail).Īfterwards, restart your Mac and see if things are better. If that doesn't help, the next thing that I'd do is disable, or upgrade, or uninstall any Mail add-ins or helper apps.
Modern anti-virus utilities interact with your e-mail program, and any AV program you have running may not be updated yet and compatible with the version of the Mac OS you are running. In the screenshot below, you can see two IMAP accounts (an iCloud email account and a test email account) and three Exchange accounts. Restart your Mac and see if things are better. Open Mail and go to Mail > Preferences (or press Command + ,) Go to Accounts and verify the account type underneath the account name, in the left section of the dialog box. The first thing that I'd try, surprisingly, is to turn off, or even better, uninstall, any third party anti-virus program that you have running.