Yosemite update strikes again

Hey Stokie,

I am also not too happy: I use my iMac wired. From time to time the connection to the Internet fails. Only a reboot reconnects. It happens at unexpected moments.

Cheers

Iver

We have just deleted and re-added the affected email accounts and they appear to be working again. For now anyway!

Ken

I still suffer from this also. I click on the wifi connection icon (top right hand corner) and select turn wifi off and the select turn wifi on and it resets though it is still a PITA.

Ken 

Mailbox has stopped working again already. Anyone any idea what is going on?

It appears that it suddenly does not like my password anymore. If I go into preferences and un-tick 'Allow insecure authentication' of the password it all starts working again. Is it suggesting that my password is too weak? I have been using the password for over a year without a problem.

Any suggestions or advice appreciated.

Ken

Plusnet email appears very insecure and as far as I'm aware still does not have SSL implemented.  Amazing in 2015 if that is the case.  That would likely be why unticking the box makes it work for you.

Have a look at the Plusnet forum.  http://community.plus.net/foru....php/board,65.0.html

Having read a little bit on the forum there I certainly wouldn't use Plusnet email from a security perspective.

Jim

Jim,

Thanks for that, we are going to set up new email accounts with someone else and bin the Plusnet email accounts.

Ken

My mail seems to be working OK, but ever since 'upgrading' to Yosemite, I often come to the iMac (which I usually put in sleep mode rather than shutting down completely) to find that 'there was any error an your computer was restarted : report/ignore' (or something on those lines).   VERY annoying.

I use a company called Fluent for email hosting. Based in the UK. Works very well.

My mail seems to be working OK, but ever since 'upgrading' to Yosemite, I often come to the iMac (which I usually put in sleep mode rather than shutting down completely) to find that 'there was any error an your computer was restarted : report/ignore' (or something on those lines).   VERY annoying.

None of my Yosemite Mac's (all of which go to sleep and are almost never shut down) have this problem.  What have you done to try to solve it?  Have you checked the Apple forums to see if anyone else has this problem?

I've tried all the suggested solutions on the web.  All updates in App Store applied.  The only things giving problems are :

1.  Not automatically remounting Network Drives, and when i manually mount, sometimes one of the drives reports a problem, but I can access the files in its Multimedia Directory (it's the QNAP drive which is ONLY used for my music files)

2. Mail sometimes (well, to be honest, quite often), says it can't move deleted emails to Trash, and then won't quit unless I Force Quit.  Then I can usually delete the offending email without problems, although sometimes I have to go through the rigmarole of deleting email > error message > Force Quit more than once.

I know I said Mail was OK, but I'd forgotten that bit until I actually came to review my email this afternoon.

The one thing left seems to be to reinstall OS-X.  Not looking forward to the hassle of doing that.

It may be worth trying the following.

Under System Preferences->Energy Saver->Power Adapter uncheck (i.e. turn off) "wake for network access"

Unless you have another device that needs to access the iMac when it is asleep you don't need this checked I wouldn't think.

Worth a shot as there is some stuff online about this solving the issue for some.

Unless it is stolen and you need to find out where it is or to erase it remotely. Of course we can always access our Mac whenever it is online.

Peter,

Fair enough re theft if you think that is a reasonable likelihood - I have never lost a piece of computer equipment theft but obviously others have.

Regarding remote access, I have mine switched off as it is far too insecure to leave it open in a home network IMO.  If I want to access date remotely I would far rather do it via a major and more secure cloud service.  I'm sure others will have different views.