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Apple publishes awkward workaround for OS X Mail issues plaguing users, and other news for Feb. 4, 2014

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<p>Apple has published a rather awkward workaround for users who are experiencing Mail troubles in OS X 10.9 Mavericks. Many users have reported trouble with Mail since 10.9 shipped, like misbehaving Gmail accounts, issues with moving and deleting messages and retrieving new messages.</p>

<p>The last issue -- being unable to receive new messages -- is particularly annoying as those affected must force-quit the app and then relaunch it to check for new Mail. Now, Apple says those users can simply take the following steps to get new mail (http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5367?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US):</p>

<p><strong>OS X: New email messages not received until Mail is quit and reopened

Symptoms</strong></p>

<p>For some email providers, new email messages in Mail may only appear to arrive when Mail is first opened. No new email arrives until Mail is quit and reopened.</p>

<p><strong>Resolution</strong></p>

<p>Quitting and reopening Mail forces it to re-establish a connection to the email server. You can use these steps to receive new mail messages without quitting Mail:</p>

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   <li>Choose Mailbox &gt; Take All Accounts Offline.</li>
   <li>Choose Mailbox &gt; Get All New Mail.</li>
</ol>

<p>As a shortcut, you can also add the Take All Accounts Offline and Get Mail buttons to your Mail toolbar.</p>

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   <li>Choose View &gt; Customize Toolbar.</li>
   <li>Drag the Take All Accounts Offline button to the Toolbar if it is not there already.</li>
   <li>Drag the Get Mail button to the Toolbar if it is not there already.</li>
   <li>Click Done</li>
</ol>

<p>To receive new mail messages, click the Take Offline button, then click the Check Mail button.</p>

<p>Beside the cumbersome steps above, there's no further word on Mail's widespread problems. Hopefully Apple will sort this all out when OS X 10.9.2 is released.</p>

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<p>In other news:</p>

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   <li>Google Maps (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-maps/id585027354?mt=8) has been updated for iOS. The new version allows users to get notified when a faster route becomes available in navigation mode. It also includes your usual bug fixes.</li>
   <li>World Wrestling Entertainment has announced that the company's WWE Network will be launching on the Apple TV on February 24th. The news came when a WWE employee answered a fan's question on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/WWENetwork/posts/589920144427274?reply_comment_id=67226363&amp;total_comments=3) as to whether the WWE will come to the Apple TV, who confirmed that it will. That Facebook answer has since been removed.</li>
   <li>Tim Cook has met with the Turkish president today, according to meeting notes on the president's public calendar (http://www.tccb.gov.tr/sayfa/program/). There's no word what the meeting will be about, but many speculate Turkey's US$4.5 billion tablet education initiative will be discussed. With it, Turkey plans to give up to 15 million tablets to school children.</li>
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