Hi Martin, Thanks for the update. Regarding your mail issues, it sounds like you've remedied them yourself. Let me explain a few things first though. Apple Mail and gMail have an interesting relationship whereby Apple appears to know that a large number of Mac users do use gMail and want it to work well on their Mac. Google has a pseudo iMap service as well as a desire to keep every darn eMail you ever sent or received. these tend to be kept in the gMail All Mail folder even if eMails are trashed. Therefore, gMail can begin to compile a huge stash of messages that you may or may not wish to have. Consequently, when you first set up your Mail app, all these messages begin downloading to your Mac. This can slow everything down considerably as it is affecting both your network traffic and using up processor resources. What is usually recommended is to leave your Mail app open, with your Mac left running over night. As long as it doesn't go to sleep, gMail and Mail will complete the task, resolve their differences while you sleep, and your Mail app and Mac itself should be much more responsive. As I mentioned, it appears like you may have that beast beat to submission.
Regarding your desire to have the Mac automatically login, I will give you the instructions to accomplish this. Although, I will first say that this practice is not recommended by pretty well anyone who supports IT, as it leaves you and your data easily accessed without ever requiring a password. With the disclaimer aside: 1. Open system Preferences. 2. Activate the Users & Groups pane. 3. Unlock the lock near the bottom of the pane. 4. Interact with the Users, Groups & Login Options List area. 5. Navigate to the bottom of this list to the Login Options item. 6. Stop interacting with the Users, Groups & Login Options list area. 7. VO-right once and you should hear VO announce something about auto-login being off. 8. VO-space on this pop-up menu and choose the account you wish to auto login with. 9. You'll be required to enter the password for the account, and you're done. 10. close System Prefs and restart to see if it works. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 8, 2016, at 06:02, Martin Brown <[email protected]> wrote: On your first question Tim, it is pop. Secondly, When I load mail, it has focus on the inbox of my Gmail account. I then tab into my list of emails. If there is an email I wish to read, I press VO plus J to enter the body of the text. To return to the list of emails again I press VO plus J again. To move back to my list of mail boxes, I press shift together with the tab key. As I write this reply, Mail seems to be behaving much better. Bear with me for a moment and I shall try to explain what I done. As I have said in an earlier email I have not been on my Mac for quite a while. However during that time I changed my email provider to Google. Since that time I have been using Outlook on my Windows machine. Of course, I had made sure to check the appropriate check box telling Outlook not to leave a copy of an email on the server once it had been downloaded. Guess what Tim, might as well not have bothered. On the Gmail site there is a combo box which must be set to remove emails once your email client has downloaded it from the site. Now began the fun. When I set up my new account in Mail over forty thousand emails landed in my inbox. I began the process of deleting them, but of course, as fast as I deleted them another copy was downloaded to my inbox. This is when I went to Gmail and found what was wrong and put matters right. I think poor old Mail just got totally overwhelmed. Once my mail boxes on Google had been completely zeroed I then deleted my Gmail account together with the account from my previous provider. I then created my new account and was relieved to see that all my mailboxes were empty. So far, Mail is behaving as it should and is a pleasure to use. On the point about my issue with focus Tim, I agree totally. It is not a problem for me to get around this minor issue. However, for my wife it is rather more of a headache. I do not have to sign in when I boot up my Mac each time, but she has too. I think this has something to do with iCloud. It is then that the problem with focus can be a bit of a pain. I have a friend who has the exact same problem and it is driving him up the wall. Perhaps you, or someone else on the list, might know how to bypass this login screen. Best Wishes: Martin -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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