This morning I am unable to retrieve mail from my ISP and I have an "Account Error" advisory at the top of my Apple Mail page - in a little black triangle. The Preferences show that iCloud is online but I cannot get it to go offline and allow my ISP mail to be online.

Every time I designate my ISP account as the online account, iCloud takes over and designates itself as online.

Solution?

NOTE: My wife's ISP email, on the same machine but a different account, is just fine.

Update: I used Cocktail to rebuild the Launch Services Database, but that made no difference.

Update 2: And now, just as mysteriously as the problem arose, it has gone away. I went to fill my coffee mug and, when I returned, Mail had started working properly. Colour me confused, albeit relieved.

Last edited by ryck; 12/09/19 01:53 PM.

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