Fixing slow performance on OSX 10.9, Mavericks
I have an early-2008 iMac which has served me pretty well for home use, but the hard drive finally died. Since replacing the drive on those machines is quite a chore, I brought it
Continue readingSolving technology problems, one at a time
I have an early-2008 iMac which has served me pretty well for home use, but the hard drive finally died. Since replacing the drive on those machines is quite a chore, I brought it
Continue readingAfter upgrading to SnowLeopard a new bug in Mail.app has appeared. About once a week, one or more emails will decide to reproduce themselves hundreds of times in a folder called “Recovered Messages”. If that email has a large attachment, it can quickly fill up the limited space allotted to my email account.
Continue readingIf you are having problems sending mail from the iPhone, try the following. Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars Under Accounts, click the account you are having trouble sending mail with. Scroll down to Outgoing Mail
Continue readingI have about 5 email accounts, and use Mail.app to manage them. Recently I started seeing this obnoxious and cryptic message when trying to send from anything but my att.yahoo. account.
The server response was: From: address not verified; see http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/sendfrom-07.html
Use the pop-up menu below to try a different outgoing mail server. All messages will use this server until you quit Mail or change your network settings
Over the last few days Mail.app started refusing to send my emails from any of my email accounts. I use only one smtp server for all the accounts: smtp.att.yahoo.com, on port 25 with non SSL
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