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Quackington

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Aug 12, 2010
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England, UK
Hi there,

I am using an iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, which has Mail 4.5 on it. Since yesterday, my Mail application will no longer download e-mails. When I open it, the little tray in the corner says it is downloading message 26 of 26, but after it finishes, nothing happens. No new Mail has been downloaded. It keeps doing this, even after a reboot (I have double-checked that the order of my Mail hasn't changed, and it isn't just showing at the bottom).

Today, I removed my Gmail account from Mail, and added it again. I entered my Gmail username/password. Once set up, it proceeds to download e-mails (downloading 1 of 26). The thing is, it has shown this constantly for the last 20 minutes. I don't even have big recent e-mails.

I'm not sure what I can do to resolve this, would appreciate any suggestions.

Many thanks.
 
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