Read incoming messages aloud in Messages on Mavericks (VO)

Until Mavericks it was possible to configure Messages to read all incoming messages aloud with VoiceOver. That feature seems to have disappeared. For a blind user it was extremely useful since Messages as such is not very accessible at all. Do you have any ideas on how to configure VoiceOver to read incomming messages on the Mac? Or maybe how to configure VoiceOver to access the latest message via a keyboard shortcut?

Apple discusses this exact problem in a support document. I suggest you read through it and make sure you have everything configure exactly as is discussed in that document.
Troubleshooting Messages Beta
I think the key is to make sure that you add your Apple ID to your Messages settings on your iPhone and you set it up as your caller ID as discussed in that support document.

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Mail Composed, and incoming messages displayed Font too small.

Most emails I receive and my outgoing composed messages use a font size around 12 point. People who receive my emails see a normal size, but while I am composing or reading incoming messages the font displayed is too small and difficult to read.
When I use other applications where I also use or view a 12 point font, and have the viewing magnification set to 100%, the displayed font is just fine. I think this is due to my screen resolution which is set to 1280x800 on my 13" MacBook.
When I change my screen resolution to 1024x768, the mail displayed 12 point font becomes readable, and in other applications the 12 point font at 100% magnification is the same as when I was using the 1280x800 screen resolution.
I have tried entering Command-Plus to magnify the displayed mail message, it actually increases the font size in the message rather than magnifying the message and keeping the font the same.
Is there another way I can magnify just the displayed message without magnifying the whole desktop/screen?
Thanks in Advance.
Jeff Cameron

Yes, setting the monitor to the default resolution, it does look fine. But for applications like Word, Pages, Preview and many other when you set the display zoom magnification to 100.00 regardless of the screen resolution the text seems normal, but in Mail, there is no screen zoom magnification, and so the higher the screen resolution, the smaller the text in composed and received messages is.

Apple Mail 250 MILLION incoming messages (Mavericks)

A few weeks ago I upgraded to Mavericks.
Mail was working great but now I'm having all kinds of problems.
I've seen there are lots of other people having similar problems, but one I have not seen anyone post is...
In the "mail activity" window, below the list of mailboxes, I have a HUGE number of incoming messages.
Today it is up to over 250 MILLION incoming messages!!!!! Not hundred, not thousand but MILLION And the number is still increasing!!
In my different emails I may get a maximum (depending on the day) of up to 150 emails, all of which are already loaded on my computer (I end up deleting the majority of those emails), so how can I have so many emails trying to come in??
Of course, when I open my Activity Monitor, the Mail application sometimes takes up OVER 100% of the processor... making it impossible to work.
I went into my different accounts and deleted the "deleted" emails on the servers. What else can I do?
What can possibly be causing this??
I have several gmail accounts and others on specific domains (linked to websites), all imap.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
macbook pro 15-inch, Early 2011,
mavericks 10.9.5
8 go ram
Mail 7.3

Yes Eric that does reset it but the numbers quickly start to climb again!!!
At first it says may 10 incoming messages (that would be about normal), but now I'm up to over 50,000 again!!!
There is some sort of duplication going on that was not happening before I upgraded to Mavericks.
I agree with you about feedback. I'm trying to send feedback everyday, until I find a solution.
This problem is keeping me from working since it is using up way too much of the CPU.
Thanks anyway.

Messages received before september 4th are not more readable. However , not problem of reading for incoming messages for yesterday and today. How can I recover old messages ??ges dated

Hi , All my incoming messages up to September 4th on one of my mail accounts are impossible to be read again !! When I 'click" on any of the messages a blank window appears instead of the text..!! However , all the incoming messages received yesterday and today are perfectly readable.
How can I solve this problem ?
Sorry for my poor English..Thanks in advance
Francois

Hi Francois, nothing wrong with your English at all!
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup

B2B RosettaNet incoming messages throws error "Unable to read the preamble"

Hi,
We have configured Oracle B2B to send Invoices to TP using Rosettanet V2.0.
The incoming message are coming to B2B server via DMZ running apache HTTP server. We have security certificates installed on DMZ and has shared the public key with the TP.
TP has shared public key which we have installed on SOA server keystore.
We are able to see incoming messages in "Wire Message" tab, but the status is "processing". The SOA log file shows the error "Unable to read the preamble".
Any suggestion on this really appreciated.
Thanks,
Adarsh

The configuration that we have here is -
Outbound
SOA -> <Firewall> TP
Inbound
TP -> DMZ(SSL Enabled) -> FIREWALL -> SOA Server
SOA server is SSL enabled too, but the communication between DMZ and SOA has been configured on HTTP (non SSL). We shared the public key of DMZ server with the TP.
Here is the message that we are receiving from TP.
--27888100.1321681003096.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw
Message-ID: <14801385.1321681003095.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; type="application/xml";
boundary="----=_Part_6149_9357410.1321681003080"
------=_Part_6149_9357410.1321681003080
Content-Type: Application/XML
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Location: RN-Preamble
Content-ID: <16966956.1321681003078.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Preamble SYSTEM "Preamble_MS_V02_00.dtd">
<Preamble>
<standardName>
<GlobalAdministeringAuthorityCode>RosettaNet</GlobalAdministeringAuthorityCode>
</standardName>
<standardVersion>
<VersionIdentifier>V02.00</VersionIdentifier>
</standardVersion>
</Preamble>
------=_Part_6149_9357410.1321681003080
Content-Type: Application/XML
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Location: RN-Delivery-Header
Content-ID: <18073579.1321681003079.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE DeliveryHeader SYSTEM "DeliveryHeader_MS_V02_00.dtd">
<DeliveryHeader>
<isSecureTransportRequired>
<AffirmationIndicator>Yes</AffirmationIndicator>
</isSecureTransportRequired>
<messageDateTime>
<DateTimeStamp>20111118T223643.053Z</DateTimeStamp>
</messageDateTime>
<messageReceiverIdentification>
<PartnerIdentification>
<domain>
<FreeFormText xml:lang="EN">DUNS</FreeFormText>
</domain>
<GlobalBusinessIdentifier>616252495</GlobalBusinessIdentifier>
</PartnerIdentification>
</messageReceiverIdentification>
<messageSenderIdentification>
<PartnerIdentification>
<domain>
<FreeFormText xml:lang="EN">DUNS</FreeFormText>
</domain>
<GlobalBusinessIdentifier>200103377</GlobalBusinessIdentifier>
<locationID>
<Value>Calgary</Value>
</locationID>
</PartnerIdentification>
</messageSenderIdentification>
<messageTrackingID>
<InstanceIdentifier>ac1aab8df70da53a000ca325</InstanceIdentifier>
</messageTrackingID>
</DeliveryHeader>
------=_Part_6149_9357410.1321681003080
Content-Type: Application/XML
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Location: RN-Service-Header
Content-ID: <27927869.1321681003079.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE ServiceHeader SYSTEM "ServiceHeader_MS_V02_00.dtd">
<ServiceHeader>
<ProcessControl>
<ActivityControl>
<BusinessActivityIdentifier>Invoice Notification</BusinessActivityIdentifier>
<MessageControl>
<fromRole>
<GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>Buyer</GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>
</fromRole>
<fromService>
<GlobalBusinessServiceCode>Buyer Service</GlobalBusinessServiceCode>
</fromService>
<inReplyTo>
<ActionControl>
<ActionIdentity>
<GlobalBusinessActionCode>Invoice Notification</GlobalBusinessActionCode>
<messageStandard>
<FreeFormText>PIDX</FreeFormText>
</messageStandard>
<standardVersion>
<VersionIdentifier>1.0</VersionIdentifier>
</standardVersion>
</ActionIdentity>
<messageTrackingID>
<InstanceIdentifier>33323237303737323338343533343832</InstanceIdentifier>
</messageTrackingID>
</ActionControl>
</inReplyTo>
<Manifest>
<numberOfAttachments>
<CountableAmount>0</CountableAmount>
</numberOfAttachments>
<ServiceContentControl>
<SignalIdentity>
<GlobalBusinessSignalCode>Exception</GlobalBusinessSignalCode>
<VersionIdentifier>V02.00</VersionIdentifier>
</SignalIdentity>
</ServiceContentControl>
</Manifest>
<toRole>
<GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>Seller</GlobalPartnerRoleClassificationCode>
</toRole>
<toService>
<GlobalBusinessServiceCode>Seller Service</GlobalBusinessServiceCode>
</toService>
</MessageControl>
</ActivityControl>
<GlobalUsageCode>Test</GlobalUsageCode>
<pipCode>
<GlobalProcessIndicatorCode>P21</GlobalProcessIndicatorCode>
</pipCode>
<pipInstanceId>
<InstanceIdentifier>PIPAC11165C133BA538E8A0000018B17B6C</InstanceIdentifier>
</pipInstanceId>
<pipVersion>
<VersionIdentifier>1.0</VersionIdentifier>
</pipVersion>
<KnownInitiatingPartner>
<PartnerIdentification>
<domain>
<FreeFormText>DUNS</FreeFormText>
</domain>
<GlobalBusinessIdentifier>616252495</GlobalBusinessIdentifier>
</PartnerIdentification>
</KnownInitiatingPartner>
</ProcessControl>
</ServiceHeader>
------=_Part_6149_9357410.1321681003080
Content-Type: Application/XML
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Location: RN-Service-Content
Content-ID: <24309402.1321681003079.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE Exception SYSTEM "Exception_MS_V02_00.dtd">
<Exception>
<ExceptionDescription>
<errorClassification>
<GlobalMessageExceptionCode>PRF.ACTN.GENERR</GlobalMessageExceptionCode>
</errorClassification>
<errorDescription>
<FreeFormText>Errors: The Invoice Number entered already exists.; Warnings: Using default Supplier Site., Using default Supplier Group., Using default Supplier User., Units has been truncated.</FreeFormText>
</errorDescription>
<offendingMessageComponent>
<GlobalMessageComponentCode>ServiceContent</GlobalMessageComponentCode>
</offendingMessageComponent>
</ExceptionDescription>
<GlobalExceptionTypeCode>Receipt Acknowledgment Exception</GlobalExceptionTypeCode>
</Exception>
------=_Part_6149_9357410.1321681003080--
--27888100.1321681003096.JavaMail.webmethods@exshaw--

I able to receive and send emails. however i cant read any incoming messages. pls contact me

i can read incoming emails but it turn to be unreadable as follows :
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My first thought is that you don't show this as a html - page.
Check view /message body as / original html

Incoming messages marked as read

Hi,
First I'd like to chime in with those who hate that messages are immediately marked as read.
But here is my real, related, problem; Incoming messages become marked as read in the background. That is; I send myself a message, it comes in as unread. I switch to other apps and work for a while, come back and the new message is marked as read.
Ah, I just did another test, and found that if I have entourage running also (I'm switching to Mail, have been using Entourage), when it gets the mail, it's marked as read.

I apologize for being incompetent twice in one message. I've changed my profile. Thanks for pointing it out. I observed the behavior in Mail, so that's where I thought the problem was, (and maybe still is - why should another client affect Mail?). I'm switching from Entourage to Mail, that's why I'm running simultaneously for a few weeks. I've done it many times over the years of operating systems and clients, specifically two years ago when I switched to Apple's Mail, then after finding it lacking, one year ago when I switched back to Entourage. I also often answer email using a browser when I'm not on my machine at home. So I use three methods. I suppose that's wrong too. I noticed the connection between Entourage and Mail halfway through the post, so it turned from a question into a posting that someone else might find useful if they observe the same behavior. But now I know what an idiot I am so everybody ignore this post!

Why can't I send messages from ipad. I can read incoming text messaging but cannot reply from ipad.

Why can't I send messages from ipad. I can read incoming text messaging but cannot reply from ipad.

I Followed the instructions to correct the problem of my iPad not sending but receiving iMessages. It did not work.

Does Siri read incoming text messages?

Does Siri read incoming text and incoming emails?

Stuff Siri can do... http://www.imore.com/siri-ultimate-guide
Also, when you receive a text, just say 'read' to Siri and she'll read it to you.

Apple Mail Infinite Incoming Messages

I have 9 email accounts setup in Apple Mail. They all worked on various Macs and iOS devices until the recent upgrades to iOS7 and Mavericks. On my Macs, all with Mavericks via a completely clean install, I am having the following issues:
* Mail using excessive (> 100% CPU on multi core machines) CPU as long as it is open
* "Mail Activity" shows an ever growning number of "Incoming Messages"
* Settings are not being remembered.
I have tried the following:
* Delete ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
* Delete ~/Library/Mail
* Remove ALL accounts from Mail and "Internet Accounts"
* Rebooting
* Relaunching Mail
* Disabling accounts
* Pretty much every combination of the above
Nothing seems to work. The disappearing settings may be the result of trying many different combinations of the above methods and forgetting when I deleted them specifically but I am sure that they have disappeared at least once without that having been the case.

CT - The problem is certainly not the standard behaviour so it is unsurprising that everyone cannot reproduce it. I did a new clean install after an upgrade some time ago and everything magically worked. I tried to list all the possibly relevant criteria in my original post but it is clearly not the whole story as I am no longer experiencing the problem
RedRacer123 - It is not a virus. It is just talk back and forth between your server and client (Mail). Especially with Gmail accounts there are a bunch of messages that are synced and archived behind the scenes which do not get displayed as new and unread (e.g. spam, chats). Regardless the problem I experienced and the problem that Megan62 is experiencing is different than just being unrelated: the count just rises and one can see that Mail is using a bunch of CPU doing something but it doesn't ever seem to finish whatever that is. I get a lot of mail but I do not have 250 MILLION messages when I see a counter go that high it is a bug in some while loop.
Megan62 - Sorry I don't have any advice other than try removing all your accounts email accounts from the computer and adding them back one by one. Hopefully whatever happened to cause the error will not happen again. I also think it might help to move as many emails out of your inbox as possible but I am not certain on that.

Prevent incoming messages in Mail App

I'm not very fond of using the integrated mail app in mavericks. However I love how I am able to compose a message simply by clicking someones email on a website. But my question is, how can I turn off incoming messages from being stored in my mailbox? I would like the app to function where there are no incoming messages or junk in the mail app. The version is a 7.3 and my mac is running on mavericks 10.9.3

If I understand you correctly, you would like to handle your mail directly on the remote server? That is not possible from Mail.app. There may be other Mail clients that offer this option or you could simply handle your Mail with your web browser.

Why does my email show thousands(!) of incoming messages -- and more...!

How come every day when I log in and open my mail, the bottom of the email screen shows thousands of incoming messages -- see attached. This happens every day. Today was the highest amount I've ever seen -- 452449 -- and it is still running closed the mail program because I was worried it would take up space on my hard drive if that many messages were really coming in.
My normal messages appear in the in-boxes and a few junk emails. I've had gmail since it started, but even if it was downloading my entire history of emails, I doubt I would be anywhere near ten thousand.
I use a few different gmail accounts and read the email on the Mail program on Mavericks 10.9.2 on a 2011 Air.
Thanks!

When posting a reply, see this icon to post a photo.
If you have tried all of the user troubleshooting steps, then the next step is a trip to the Genius Bar. You appear not to want to complete all of the steps. We are users just like you, not Apple. Good luck with your phone.

Quoting/threading phenomena in mail.app -- due to problems in incoming messages?

Folks:
Mail 5.1 on MacOS 10.7.x
I began using Mail.app when I installed 10.7, shortly after the initial release.
No problems with respect to unformatted email or replying to short, trivial length formatted message. For complex, on-going discussions I feel that consistent and reliable quoting and threading behavior are essential. But that is not happening in some cases. I'd like to figure out why, and what I might do to fix the issue.
(Note: I do not want to get into a discussion here of formatted versus unformatted email. Both have their pros and cons. Nor do I want to spend a lot of time debating this issue with my correspondents. As a matter of courtesy, I set Mail.app to respond using the same message format as the original message.)
When I reply to a formatted email, I notice that mail.app sometimes draws a dark grey box --with rounded corners-- around one or more incoming paragraphs, placing a circled "X" "close icon" at the upper left. I don't get it. To what does this correspond? Why does mail.app mark-off this text and offer a "close icon"? As far as I know I'm not doing anything that implies I might want to delete the text.
(Note: Rummaging around in the corresponding message source, it seems that these boxes correspond to blockquoted text in the received message.)
Editing within one of these boxes is really unpredictable. Sometimes I can select an insertion point and insert a line-break, in preparation of replying to the text just above. Sometimes nothing happens. Sometimes I can select text, and cut it. Sometimes nothing happens at all to the selected text.
Mail.app commonly doesn't correctly increase the quoting level in such paragraphs. Using
 Format> Quote Level>Increase
to maintain threading history manually is fairly easy since I've defined a function-key shortcut, which works some of the time -- but the effect of this command is unpredictable. Sometimes this command deletes the selected text entirely. (Grrrrrr!) The workaround I've found is to select smaller chunks of text. In such cases, this command generally works correctly.
Meanwhile, messages from exactly one person --who uses gmail exclusively-- are displayed in a completely unique threaded format by mail.app. The entire short history of 5 messages from him are displayed on multiple virtual sheets in one message window, with the latest first. In one view, clicking on the "see more" link at the bottom of his messages unleashes a cool-looking accordion opening effect and displays my part of the thread. (I guess. I don't totally understand this display concept. But it looks very cool and seems to handle quoting and threading pretty well.)
What's going on?
My best guess is that mail.app is struggling with "inconsistencies" in the incoming messages from different people using various email clients. I seem to recall reading that email tech specs are a hodgepodge of evolving and contradictory standards. Is that correct? Is that the root of my issue?
Many of my correspondents are non-tekkies and/or non-affluent, and they use whatever email client they can afford. Some could be using really old email clients. That doesn't help, right? Are blockquotes a really archaic formatting measure?
When these problems occur, they can cost me a lot of time and trouble. It's really distracting to have to deal with portions of the incoming message disappear.
I don't think it is practical to persuade my correspondents to upgrade their email clients. Some of them have trouble simply setting the preferences to support quoting. Threading is a difficult concept for a few.
Any suggestions? Any mail.app preference settings I might try adjusting? Any add-ins? Is it possible to tell Mail.app "interpret all incoming blockquotes tags as simple breaks" or strip them entirely? Or ...?
TIA

haavee:
Thanks for your reply on this thread.
And thanks for the confirmation: Yes, often difficult, and completely unworkable in some cases.
To my surprise, I've been able to find very few people reporting similiar observations. Very little about this issue at all on the web.
I looked for command-key variations on Format --> Make Plain Text, hoping for a block action, but none I tried was any different.
Here is my current view of the issue:
• For formatted messages, each email client operates differently. If there is a standard it seems to be no more robust than "use simple HTML for formatted messages".
• The "can't insert" issue, as well as those mysterious rectangle-surrounded blocks, seems very correlated with the presence of html <div> sections in the message. It is awkward to experiment, so I've only done a limited amount. My observations so far:
-- I don't think you can insert text anywhere "inside" a <div>, and mail.app seems to treat <div> as a "sticky" attribute -- e.g/ very difficult/impossible to remove without deleting the text inside. The copy-style method doesn't seem to affect <div> tags.
-- Based on one case, it appears that message bodies composed of back-to-back <div> sections are impervious to inserts anywhere. (The email client used by one particular person with whom I've corresponded seems to build messages out of --you guessed it-- back-to-back <div> sections. Putting on my HTML coders hat -- I cannot see any sense at all in doing this. Smells to me like a kludge/hack, as you prefer.)
• What about an applicable mail.app add-in? I can find mail.app add-ins, but it seems the mail.app tech info (API) isn't public, so those that exist are based on guesswork about how it works. This means that add-ins must be re-tooled possibly for each new version of mail.app. Altogether, not encouraging for add-in developers. And, yes, consistent with that the range of functionality I've seen is rather limited. So, I've given up looking in the add-in category.
• Applescript has commands for controlling mail.app generally, but I didn't see anything approaching the level of function necessary to remove <divs> by global search-and-replace. (I'm far from an Applescript expert, so it is very possible I missed something.) Nor did I see any general command such as Clean up dodgy HTML in message. (I can dream!)
The only bit of progress I've had is finding TextSoap: http://www.unmarked.com/textsoap/ which may have promise. But I have had no time to evaluate it and it may be a month or so before I get a chance to check it out.
Looking at the upper right of the window in which I'm composing this message, there's a button "HTML" that lets me see --and edit-- the underlying HTML. On first glance, there's not enough functionality to, say, efficiently clean up all insert-resistant blocks in a message, but it looks practical to clean up individual blocks, and maybe that's all it would take. Though I imagine that the user base for these forums is not very different from that of mail.app, I'm guessing adding this function to mail.app isn't even a dim possibity. Oh, well...
I note you are happy with your solution, so I'll try see if a variation of it might help me.
Thanks,
h.2

IPod touch is tripling my messages from mail. Doesn't happen all the time. Upon checking my mail, all incoming messages will show up at least 3 times.

iPod Touch is showing my mail messages tripled. Incoming messages show up three times instead of as only one message.

I've tried reindexing dozens of times. It never makes a difference. I have another issue today.
I just went through a smart "unread" mailbox of 200 messages. I individually selected all but 4 emails and deleted them all. After they were deleted, I went to my regular inbox to find an old mesage and all the 196 emails I had just deleted were still in there.

How can I see incoming messages in more than one computer?

I live in two locations, when I open incoming messages on one computer , these messages do not appear on the other computer anymore. There must be an option to see the same messages on the other computer too?

one option is to use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protocol IMAP] . Basically your e-mail will remain on the server of your e-mail provider and you have access to them with TB via IMAP.
Other than that, a second option comes to my mind but it's definately much more complicated, less comfortable and I haven't tried it myself .Try this only if IMAP is NOT an option for you.
You may syncronise the TB E-mail database with some cloud storage provider (like dropbox) on a regular bases.
A good file sync tool is FreeFileSync (Open Source). The problem with this syncing method is that it can't look into e-mails and which side changed/deleted/etc. what. There are various disadvantages here which I can't get into more detail here. Better use IMAP.

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