Mail won't send emails

2014-08-30 Thread Marlene Oostryck
Hello All iMac 10.6.8 SL using gmail on Mail. My husband has Alzheimers but is still able to send emails ( 2 a day on good days!). It keeps him in touch with family in the Netherlands. Unfortunately his short term memory loss creates lots of problems and Google and I are continually

Re: Mail won't send emails

2014-08-30 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Marlene, The current problem has been over a few days - all his emails were going to Draft and now they will not respond to the Send button. He is still able to receive emails. When you double click on a message in the drafts folder what happens? The message should open in another window

Re: Mail won't send emails

2014-08-30 Thread Marlene Oostryck
Hi Ronni I have been double clicking the message in the drafts folder and hitting Send and there is just no response. I must have tried 10 times over the last few days - all no response. I just tried again to get an exact answer for you - and found out what the problem is! Somehow my husband

Re: Mail won't send emails

2014-08-30 Thread Daniel Kerr
Right click (or Control click) on the grey area of the menu bar (where the text is). You'll get a drop down menu to change settings. He's possibly set it to text only. Change it to Icon and Text and all should be good. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone 5 --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry

Re: Mail won't send emails

2014-08-30 Thread Ronni Brown
Marlene, you can also Right Click (Control Click) in the toolbar then click “customise toolbar. You'll be able to drag the Send button back to where you'd like to put it on the toolbar. Cheers, Ronni On 30 Aug 2014, at 5:59 pm, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Right click (or

Re: Mail won't send emails

2014-08-30 Thread Marlene Oostryck
Hi Ronni and Daniel Many thanks for your expert advice as always. I have just had time to implement your suggestions and all is working well again. Regards Marlene Oostryck On 30/08/2014, at 5:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Right click (or Control click) on the grey area of the menu bar (where