Email - can send but not receive

[Sheila]

I'm hoping someone might have a clue whats going on with my Mail...

I have 3 addresses, one from my ISP (virgin ntl) which sends & receives just fine. The other two are @mydomainname addresses & one is my primary. Last night these 2 stopped receiving, although they would still send. Today one is receiving but the primary isn't. This is just on the desktop - both are working absolutely perfectly on my iPad.

I've checked everything I can think of to check - the faulty addy is set up as correctly as the one that's started working again. Has anyone come across this & does anyone have any idea how I might fix it?

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

Have you restarted your Mac since this issue?

 

[Sheila]

Yes I have. I took all accounts offline then back on, restarted Mail, restarted the Mac & in the end downloaded Thunderbird & got into my primary address that way. This morning, suddenly, Mail is working again yet nothing's changed since last night. I've had another thought - I use SpamSieve & late last night downloaded an upgrade. Could that have anything to do with it? Could the previous version have been randomly interfering with the receiving of emails?

 

[Kaveman]

I use SpamSieve

absolutely, Mail has an excellent SPAM filtering system, anything else will just cause problems.

 

[Sheila]

Have been away for a couple of days but Mail is behaving itself at the moment so am hopeful the problem has been solved

 

[Kaveman]

Internetland and email is far from dependable, if Mail was working and now it's not, don't change things as the problem is most likely not your Mac.