Apple Mail Gremlin

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LarryMcJ

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I just setup a new MacBook and the minute I opened Mail for the first time it auto-configured itself for my .Mac email account. I tried deleting the account, but it keeps coming back, even though only two things I'm using .Mac iSync for are Address Book and Bookmarks (Mail Accounts and Mail Rules/Signatures/Smart Mailboxes are not checked).

I can delete out the account manually in /Library/Mail/ or by just removing it from Mail Preferences...it doesn't matter, in less than five minutes it's back!

Here's the real kicker...I have my .Mac mail account setup to forward straight to my Gmail account, so I don't see how the new MacBook is even accessing the .Mac mail account info...but it is.

Is there any way to fix this!

LarryMcJ
 
Thanks to everyone to tried to figure this out, but I literally stumbled onto the solution. In Googling for answers, I ran across a post where a user couldn't get rid of his .Mac account after it expired. The .Mac support person said to simply remove his .Mac username and password from the .Mac Preference Pane in System Preferences.

Something clicked and I did this, then removed the .Mac mail account and it never returned. Reinstalling might not have even fixed it if I had registered the MacBook "before" I opened mail as Mail would have tried to automatically configure my .Mac mail account just because the info was in that preference pane.

LarryMcJ
 
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