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. . . . And NOT in a GOOD way.

Have returned home from Cleveland to my laptop, to find that on my laptop I am having sudden ghastly trouble with Apple 3.6 Mail: it seems to have updated itself somehow without warning, and now refuses to *send* anything.  As in, the "Send" glyph is dark, and unresponsive, and even the pulldown menu MESSAGE>SEND is greyed out.  I'm receiving just fine.  

I've also got the mail working fine on my iPhone & iPad - I think it did some kind of stealth upgrade when I started with the new iPad last week, since that's when it started making dear little whooshing noises when it sent mail.  But I was having no trouble with it then.  I turned it off Friday, and turned it on this afternoon, and the Mail told me there were exciting new things I could do. (I can now think of a few exciting new things I can think of for it to do . . . but never mind.)

I have OSX 10.5.8.

I am not clever at any of this, so unless you know a quick & obvious fix, please don't leave elaborate suggestions here which I won't understand.  Instead, please Comment here with a time that I can IM or phone you. Thank you.

BONUS POINTS:  So I added some new Apps to the iPad (under my brother Philip's tutelage), and they are all trying automatically to load themselves onto my iPhone without even being asked.  I bet there's a button I can push for that (to make it not happen, I mean).  Isn't there?

Date: 2011-10-16 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com
Can you be more specific about the part where it seems to have updated itself? It must have, because otherwise it wouldn't be telling you that you can do exciting new things. But I just checked my installation, and I'm running Mail Version 3.6 (936) under 10.5.8. So it seems to me that you must have something different.

If you can find that and post it, I (and others, I'm sure) can poke around and see if we can find information about it. Like, if it's a known bug with a known fix. Otherwise, I don't have a clue even where to start.

ps - just got your email. I assume that's sent from another machine?

Date: 2011-10-17 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellen-kushner.livejournal.com
Sent from GMail itself, rather than Mac's Mail. So not a desperate crisis - but more that feeling that one has a broken leg & is getting around on crutches. And I would like this to be Fixed. Have turned whole system on & off just bunches, and that ain't it.

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