Mail.app and GMail issues

Okay, so I have some new issues withe Mail.app. It started yesterday...

I have two accounts under Mail, one is an Exchange server (stupid work decided to with Exchange.... sigh...) and the other Gmail. So yesterday, Mail started crashing.

It comes up saying its downloading messages. That are 0kb. The number of 'new' messages changes. I checked both accounts through their respective web services, and no messages on either. So... I decided to see which account was causing the issue. I disabled the Gmail account and only had the Exchange one up.... No problems encountered!
Disabled the Exchange account then enabled GMail and BAM! Crash.

I've disabled Growl as well, reset permissions, and still no fix. Think I'm going to go ahead and delete the account in Mail and remake it... see if that fixes things.

Anyone else had Mail problems? I mean, this is out of the blue... I dunno if GMail changed something, but yeah...

Any ideas?

*edit*

Running Leopard with all updates and mail is V 3.1.

 

pop or imap for gmail? is it set that way inside gmail online?

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77663


make sure ssl is turned on

 

Yeah, its all setup for Imap. was working fine until last night.

I went ahead and deleted the gmail account under mail and recreated it. Worked fine for a few min, now it's doing the same bloody thing.

Also did a pop version, that worked fine. Wonder if this is a change in Gmail's Imap?

 

incoming: imap.gmail.com port: 993 SSL on
outgoing: smtp.gmail.com port: 25 SSL on?

those are my working settings....


???

gmail says to make outgoing 'Server port' is 587. but mine works fine on 25. i think comcast allows access to port 25 on their network though.

you do have authentication setup too right for outgoing? make sure its the same name/pass as incoming.

 

Yeah, all the auth and crap is the same.
It's not having a problem connecting. It hits the server just fine, but it's having an issue AFTER it connects.
I dunno why, but it seems to think there are messages on there, that don't exist. And the crash log makes no sense :-/

 

try creating a new gmail account, and setting that up?

since gmail just (within 4-6months) implemented imap, im sure there are some user acct problems from time to time.

setting up a new account, and testing it will tell you if its your problem, or theirs. simple enough

 

yeah, i could probably hook up an old gmail account and see about that.
It's just so bizzare that it just started happening.

I wonder if with the several updates Apple just pushed out to Leopard the other day, if that effected anything in Mail.

 

mine is fine, but YMMV. try the old account, post back if you get some results, im curious.

or IM me, name in profile

 

Fixed.

I connected to my other Gmail account through IMAP. It was having some weird behaviors downloading messages as well, but not crashing. I believe this was due to the use of GDisk and files I uploaded.
So I wiped that account completely out, had no problems.
Went to my other account, cleaned up a lot of old messages, spam, cleared trash, etc. Only left the chat logs and about 18 messages in the inbox. Check Mail again, said it was downloading 100+ messages, so now I knew the only place left to look was issues with the chat logs.

So... deleted my chat logs (which i had like, 500+ logs) and now everything is fine. How odd.

 

never used chat logs, everything else in my gmail is stock. interesting, but glad its somewhat fixed.

gmail is still the #1 IMAP/POP service in my book. I was super happy the day i saw IMAP and gmail in the same sentence!