[X Newbies] Interesting Mail behavior

[john wilson]

Yep. I had exactly the same problem and solved it the same way you did. 
I suspect it had something to do with either the 10.2.6 update (I used 
the combo version) or a recent period when the Apple servers were down 
for a short period, although I'm just guessing. John


On Monday, May 26, 2003, at 03:08  PM, Preston Black wrote:

> Yesterday I had an interesting problem with Mail.app. My .mac email 
> account just stopped working. I have another account and was getting 
> mail from it, but my .mac account was missing in action.
>
> I checked to see if I had taken it offline but I hadn't. I restarted 
> and my .mac account's mailbox was gone. I looked in Preferences and 
> noted that (inactive) was written next to my .mac account. I went to 
> the Advanced tab and checked make this account active. When I did this 
> I got an alert saying that I had to enter a username for this account. 
> I went back to the Account Information tab and noted several things. 
> First, Email address was empty as was the username. And they were both 
> grayed out so I could not enter information. Nothing I did would 
> change this situation.
>
> I solved the problem by removing this corrupt account and replacing it 
> with a new one.
>
> Has anyone else seen strange behavior like this?