| Author | Message | ||
     Xl1200r |
Running iMail on my Mac. When you get a new message, it makes a sound and little number in a red dot appears on the icon. My issue is that my red dot takes a while to show up - it will make the sound, I cam read the new message, but it will be minutes before the red number shows. At the same time, when I read the message and/or delete it, it will take a few minutes for it to go away. I'm only running a single gmail account on this. In some cases, I can hear the noise, go in and read the message, and then a minute later the dot will show up for a minute and then go away. Everyone else's dot appears to work in 'real time'. | ||
| Hammer71 |
Call the help center in India and tell them you lost your "dot". They will mail you a new one. | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
interesting mine always shows up the same time as the sound. are you using your gmail account in imap or pop3? I am not sure if that has anything to do with it but to me gmail works better in imap than pop3. | ||
| Scooterfrew |
try this: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=200601 3009291731 | ||
| Xl1200r |
my gmail account says both IMAP and POP are enabled... | ||
| Firebolt020283 |
I mean how is the mail app checking your gmail? Unless you are getting the message twice in your mailbox I would think you only have it set up one way or the other. | ||
| Xl1200r |
mail app shows as imap. Thanks for the link, scooter - i saw a lot of stuff like this out there, but nothing for my particular problem. I tried changing to pop3, messages wouldn't even load (I changed it on my mail server side as well). When I switched back, I disabled pop3 entirely from my server and things appear to be working better now. I'll keep an eye on it. | ||
| Scooterfrew |
No problem. I hope it keeps working better for ya! I hate using that mail thing. It never works right for me.  | ||
| Glitch |
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| Froggy |
Good, now that Glitch broke the ice   | ||
| Glitch |
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| Scooterfrew |
 priceless | ||
| Americanmadexb |
Call the help center in India and tell them you lost your "dot". They will mail you a new one.  | ||
| Iamarchangel |
Took me a while to figure out what you mean. App is Mail, not imail. Red flag and number is shown on icon in dock, not in messages. 1. Do the "delayed" messages have attachments or v-cards? Some pdfs or ppt take longer at the computer level even though you're seeing them. 2. Does it do it faster after a restart or slower when you've watched a movie on the computer? That would be a memory block thing. | ||
| Chadhargis |
Remember that Macs are really just UNIX machines. At their core, it a rock solid, tried and true, OS that has supported critical applications in some shape form or fashion for the last several decades. That being said, UNIX is very permissions sensitive, and uses permissions to control aspects of the OS. Go into Disk Utility, click on your MacOS volume, and select "Repair Permissions". Monthly, weekly, and daily scripts run automatically to take care of most of this housekeeping, but it never hurts to take a stab at it. |
