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Complete frustration with Mail after Mavericks upgrade. My email pop a/c was working fine with Mavericks on my Mac Pro, and I upgraded to Sierra a few days ago (after cloning the startup disk to some antique drive). The Sierra upgrade went smoothly although one element from Belkin (my router) was rejected as being incompatible with Sierra. Now email simply doesn’t work - incoming and outgoings are ‘offline’. Connection doctor shows internet connected ok - but both POP and SMTP servers are rejected as incorrect.
I then remembered that a similar thing happened when I upgraded to Mavericks from snow leopard - countless hours experimenting with this or that before help from this forum got me going again.
So I decided that I HATE Mac Mail, and I bought AirMail 3 - but it too rejects my setup data, TestPop and Test SMTP both say the entries are invalid.
All was working fine with Mavericks so I went back to try to make Mail work — no joy, but the Mavericks parameters were transferred to Sierra Mail by the Apple upgrading process, not by me. What more can I do? Start-up from clone (Mavericks) is fine, email functions correctly as before - but that old disk is so slow!.
I then remembered that a similar thing happened when I upgraded to Mavericks from snow leopard - countless hours experimenting with this or that before help from this forum got me going again.
So I decided that I HATE Mac Mail, and I bought AirMail 3 - but it too rejects my setup data, TestPop and Test SMTP both say the entries are invalid.
All was working fine with Mavericks so I went back to try to make Mail work — no joy, but the Mavericks parameters were transferred to Sierra Mail by the Apple upgrading process, not by me. What more can I do? Start-up from clone (Mavericks) is fine, email functions correctly as before - but that old disk is so slow!.