contacts in red in iMessage

Hello.

iMessages on my mac, suddenly contacts are red and the messages are not sync. All accounts are activated and iCloud is enabled and functioning properly. Forward for Mac messages has been switched on my iPhone, I have switched it off, but the code was on the Mac.

I had this happen before in the Yosemite but never El Capitan and the answer was a setting on the phone. It has been long.

All the solutions out there?

Thank you

Holly

May be a corrupt .plist.

Make a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user folder. With this Finder window as the windshield, select Finder/display/display options for presenting or order - J.  When the display options opens, check "show the library folder. This should make your visible user library folder in your user folder.  Select the library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.iChat.plist.  Move the .plist on your desktop.

Restart your computer, open the application and test. If it works fine, delete the plist for the office.

If the application is the same, return the .plist where you got it, crushing the latest.

If this does not work, repeat the above, but remove the com.apple.imagent.plist

Thank you Leonie and Ralph Johns (UK) , that some information contained in the present.

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