Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Unable to Send Messages With Apple Mail on macOS 15.4

Awkward_One_9772:

MacOS 15.4 (Sequoia) cannot send email, but it receives email eMail. Using 3 different accounts in apple email it fails for all three. […] When I click “send” on an email created in apple mail or as a draft in apple mail, apple eMail nothing happens, just the airplane send icon grays out, also Time-to-cancel does not appear in the apple mail’s bottom left column either.

pajako:

I can open the mail.app; type and e-mail and hit ‘send’ The send-button turns gray and no email is been send.

[…]

It gets even weirder: I saw a reply somewhere about trying to send an e-mail with an attachment; after I tried to attach a file to an e-mail it works again. Not flawless but I can send emails again…

One of my customers also encountered this bug, where the Send button turns gray and seemingly the only option is to close the draft, discarding changes. He found that the problem was triggered by the Settings ‣ Composing ‣ Check spelling ‣ When I Click Send option, which is supposed to bring up the Spelling and Grammar panel, but didn’t. I have always used As I Type. When I changed it to When I Click Send, the first message worked normally, bringing up the panel and then sending the message when I closed it, but the second message didn’t show the panel and got into the reported disabled state.

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I might consider re-installing the latest Sequoia update.


What I have been seeing so far in 15.4 is that read messages sometimes will not be shown as being read. (You still have to get a sent message back into the Sent Messages folder in order to be allowed to “Send again” that some less clever person at Apple decided (some time ago now) was appropriate.)


Could it be Apple Intelligence being invoked at this step to be able to suggest rewording the message?

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