Major Mail problems....

I have been having some major problems with my e-mail program on both my late 2011 model MBAir and my late 2009 iMac running the latest 10.8.4 OS. This has been going on now about two weeks.

Synopsis: Two weeks ago, I could not log on at all to any of my e-mail aco****s without having that maddening box drop down and say my password wasn't not correct. I have 3 e-mail addresses I use, two based with AT&T, and one me.com Apple addy.

The majority of the probs are with the AT&T accounts. I was getting pestered every time I sent an e-mail to re-enter my password...that wouldn't work, even hitting it 20-30 times, the box kept popping up. I'd just quit and go get a Maker's Mark. This would happen occasionally on the me.com account too, but that's the one I trust most but only allow a few folks to know that addy.

After several days, I called AT&T. They had been having some problems during server upgrades and after about 30 minutes with a savvy tech I was back up and running. I thought my problems were over. They were, for about a day.

Until today.

I just tried to send a couple of emails....and they never left my machine. No 'whoosh' sound, nothing. They didn't appear in my sent box, nor did they go into my draft box. Where the he** are they? There is no indicator in my program that they were ever sent, or saved as a draft.....nothing. Needless to say, this flummoxed feeling is not good....

Another thing....

My e-mail accounts now just switch off whenever they want to, IOW, they go offline whenever. I've never had this problem before. Ever. Now, every time I open the mail program, all of them are offline, and after I turn them on, am lucky enough to send an e-mail or two, then they switch themselves off again; showing the tilde sign or the little 'nuclear radiation' sign next to each account.

If this were a windows machine, I'd think I have something viral. Or maybe hacked.

In another thread here, I was told to go get the Mozilla mail proggie.... but after reading about that, and it is constantly being upgraded almost weekly, I am not sure about switching to something that may be better, or may be worse.

Any ideas?

Heading to the frig for some ice.......

Cheers, as always!

Pat

In another thread here, I was told to go get the Mozilla mail proggie.... but after reading about that, and it is constantly being upgraded almost weekly, I am not sure about switching to something that may be better, or may be worse.

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Yeah, I remember that thread. No point switching to Thunderbird if it's an ISP problem which yours seems to be. By the way, Thunderbird is a fairly nice eMail and News client albeit with lots of upgrades. (Typical of Mozilla) But what the heck, it's free.

Hey chs!

As always, thanks for the reply!

I still may give Thunderbird a try. WTH...the price is right! ;-) And they probably don't upgrade it as much as my iPhone IOS does!

One question for you. Is there a way to keep my e-mail accounts online all the time? Until these problems surfaced, they never shut off....now they go offline whenever they want. I do not recall ever tweaking the option to go offline after receiving e-mail.

TIA!

Cheers!

Pat