Always new mail, in mutt

I am experiencing a strange problem with mutt and muttng: I tried all the versions (cvs, snapshots, packages in current and unstable, without any change).
Some mail folders (I use traditional mboxes) are marked as including new mail also after I read all the mails in them and I always receive the notice "New mail in =$foofolder".
Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? Otherwise, do you know where the status of the mailboxes (with or without new mails inside) is codified bt mutt: I could try to reset manually the status.

Take a look at:
http://tikouka.net/mailapp/
There are a few apps/plugins listed that will do what you're after (The Unread, MailUnreadStatusBar, etc.), but I have no idea if they work on Leopard.
You might also find a few on Hawk Wings' plugin list:
http://www.hawkwings.net/plugins.htm

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Mail icon in dock doesn't always show that a new mail has arrived

Hi,
I have a Tiger installation at work that doesn't always show when a new mail has arrived and I can't figure out why. The Mail icon in the dock doesn't change before you maximize the Mail app.
Does anyone in here know how to fix it, or is it a known bug in Tiger (10.4.3) ?
Regards
Thomas G. Madsen
Powermac G5 (2 x 1.8 Ghz) Mac OS X (10.4.2)

First of all, Mail must be opened to see the number of new messages in the Mail icon. Have you checked if it's opened?
If it's opened, open Mail app, go to Mail menu > Preferences > General, and check that, in "Dock unread count", it's selected the option you need

How can I attach an image without the image is in the email body? (using the new mail the Lion)

How can I attach an image without the image is in the email body? (using the new mail the Lion)
I want in attachment, not in the body mail.

I think your only solution is to zip the image files first and then attach them.
Read this from a site I found:
Sending Graphical Attachments -- When you attach a graphical image to your message, the recipient of your message sees the image inline (that is, in the body of the message) if her email client supports inline display. ("Take Control of Email with Apple Mail" contains a table listing the capabilities of popular Mac and PC email clients.) If a client does not support inline display (or the recipient has turned off the inline display option), the file appears as an attachment that must be opened in a separate program.
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Note that when you compose a new message, Mail always shows attachments in the body of your message. You can manually drag them somewhere else, but many email clients display all attachments in a separate list, regardless of where you place them in the message body.
If you paste an image into a message or drag & drop an image from another window (say, a Web browser), Mail converts the raw image data to an attachment in TIFF format. On the other hand, if you drag & drop the icon of an image file (or use the Attach button to locate the file using the file browser), Mail leaves the attached image in its original format. This difference is significant, because although most email clients can display JPEG images just fine, support for TIFF - especially in non-Mac email clients - is less common. If possible, I suggest attaching image files as opposed to pasting or dragging in raw image data.

STRANGE PROBLEM with "Create New Mail Account.scpt" when creating POP acct.

I am using "Create New Mail Account.scpt" to create a POP account. It creates the account successfully. It fetches the mails successfully. Now the problem begins. After fetching all the mails once if u click "Get Mail" in mac mail, it fetches all the emails again and has now 1 original and 1 copy of the email set which is on the server. I just need 1 copy of the mail set not multiple. Please give me a solution or direct me to a help.
Thanks
SCRIPT
global theUsername
global thePassword
set success to 1
set theResult to true
if theResult is not equal to false
#set theAccountName to getAccountName()
#set theUsername to getUsername()
#set thePassword to getPassword()
#set theEmailAddresses to getEmailAddress()
#set theFullName to getFullName()
-- POP Account
if accountTypeString is equal to "POP" or accountTypeString is equal to "IMAP" then
set theHostname to "THE HOST NAME"
-- POP specific options
if accountTypeString is equal to "POP" then
set deletionPolicy to my getDeletionPolicy()
if deletionPolicy is not equal to false then
set deletionPolicy to item 1 of deletionPolicy
set theNewAccount to my createAccount(accountTypeString, theAccountName, theUsername, theHostname, thePassword, theEmailAddresses, theFullName)
if theNewAccount is not equal to false then
setDeletionPolicy(theNewAccount, deletionPolicy)
getAndSetAuthenticationScheme(accountTypeString, theNewAccount)
getAndSetSMTPServer(theNewAccount)
else
set success to 0
end if
end if
-- IMAP specific options
else if accountTypeString is equal to "IMAP" then
set theNewAccount to my createAccount(accountTypeString, theAccountName, theUsername, theHostname, thePassword, theEmailAddresses, theFullName)
if theNewAccount is not equal to false then
getAndSetCachingSettings(theNewAccount)
getAndSetAuthenticationScheme(accountTypeString, theNewAccount)
getAndSetSMTPServer(theNewAccount)
else
set success to 0
end if
end if
end if
if success is equal to 1 then
display dialog "Account created!"
else
display dialog "Account creation failed!"
end if
end if
-- Convenience handler for creating accounts
on createAccount(theAccountType, theAccountName, theUsername, theHostname, thePassword, theEmailAddresses, theFullName)
tell application "Mail"
try
if theAccountType is equal to ".Mac" then
set theNewAccount to make new Mac account with properties {name:theAccountName, user name:theUsername, server name:theHostname, password:thePassword, full name:theFullName, email addresses:{theEmailAddresses}}
else if theAccountType is equal to "IMAP" then
set theNewAccount to make new imap account with properties {name:theAccountName, user name:theUsername, server name:theHostname, password:thePassword, uses ssl:true, full name:theFullName, email addresses:{theEmailAddresses}}
else if theAccountType is equal to "POP" then
set theNewAccount to make new pop account with properties {name:theAccountName, user name:theUsername, server name:theHostname, include when getting new mail:true, password:thePassword, uses ssl:true, full name:theFullName, email addresses:{theEmailAddresses}}
end if
on error
set theNewAccount to false
end try
end tell
return theNewAccount
end createAccount
-- Ask the user what they would like to name the account
on getAccountName()
repeat
set theResult to display dialog "What would you like this account to be named?" default answer "Example: My Home Account"
set theAccountName to text returned of theResult
if theAccountName does not start with "Example:" then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return theAccountName
end getAccountName
-- Ask the user for the user name for their email account
on getUsername()
repeat
set theResult to display dialog "What is your email user name?" default answer "Example: janedoe"
set theUsername to text returned of the theResult
if theUsername does not start with "Example:" then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return theUsername
end getUsername
-- Ask the user for the password for their email account
on getPassword()
set theResult to display dialog "What is the password for this account?" default answer ""
set thePassword to text returned of theResult
return thePassword
end getPassword
-- Ask the user for the email addresses for their email account
on getEmailAddress()
repeat
set theResult to display dialog "What email address would you like to use for this account?" default answer "Example: [email protected]"
set theEmailAddress to text returned of theResult
if theEmailAddress does not start with "Example:" then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return theEmailAddress
end getEmailAddress
-- Ask the user for the full name for their email account
on getFullName()
repeat
set theResult to display dialog "What is the full name for this account?" default answer "Example: Steve Smith"
set theFullName to text returned of theResult
if (theFullName does not start with "Example:") then
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return theFullName
end getFullName
-- Convenience handler for asking the user what settings they would
-- like to have for their special mailboxes. This handler also sets these
-- values in Mail.
on getAndSetSpecialMailboxes(theAccount)
-- Sent messages default to storing locally
set theResult to display dialog "Would you like to store Sent Messages on the IMAP server?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2
log theAccount
tell application "Mail"
tell theAccount
if button returned of theResult is equal to "Yes" then
set store sent messages on server to true
else if button returned of theResult is equal to "No" then
set store sent messages on server to false
end if
end tell
end tell
-- Drafts default to storing locally
set theResult to display dialog "Would you like to store Drafts on the IMAP server?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 2
tell application "Mail"
tell theAccount
if button returned of theResult is equal to "Yes" then
set store drafts on server to true
else if button returned of theResult is equal to "No" then
set store drafts on server to false
end if
end tell
end tell
-- Trash defaults to storing on the IMAP server
set theResult to display dialog "Would you like to store Deleted Messages on the IMAP server?" buttons {"Yes", "No"} default button 1
tell application "Mail"
tell theAccount
if button returned of theResult is equal to "Yes" then
set store deleted messages on server to true
else if button returned of theResult is equal to "No" then
set store deleted messages on server to false
end if
end tell
end tell
end getAndSetSpecialMailboxes
-- Convenience handler for asking the user what IMAP
-- caching setting they would like to use and configuring
-- it in Mail.
on getAndSetCachingSettings(theAccount)
set theResult to choose from list {"Cache everything", "Cache everything but attachments", "Cache when read", "Don't cache"} ¬
with prompt "Choose a message caching setting for this account:" default items {"Cache everything"} without multiple selections allowed
if theResult is not equal to false then
tell application "Mail"
tell theAccount
if (item 1 of theResult is equal to "Cache everything") then
set message caching to all messages and their attachments
else if (item 1 of theResult is equal to "Cache everything but attachments") then
set message caching to all messages but omit attachments
else if (item 1 of theResult is equal to "Cache when read") then
set message caching to only messages I have read
else if (item 1 of theResult is equal to "Don't cache") then
set message caching to do not keep copies of any messages
end if
end tell
end tell
end if
end getAndSetCachingSettings
-- Convenience handler for asking the user whether they want to use
-- an already defined SMTP server (if any) or whether they want to
-- define a new one.
on getAndSetSMTPServer(theAccount)
tell application "Mail" to set everySMTPServer to every smtp server
if ((count of everySMTPServer) > 0) then
set listOfSMTPServers to {}
repeat with eachServer in everySMTPServer
try
set listOfSMTPServers to listOfSMTPServers & name of eachServer
end try
end repeat
createNewSMTPServer(theAccount)
else
createNewSMTPServer(theAccount)
end if
end getAndSetSMTPServer
-- Handler for creating a new SMTP server, if the user has none set up
-- already or if they choose not to use one of their existing servers.
on createNewSMTPServer(theAccount)
set theServerName to "THE SERVER NAME"
tell application "Mail"
set theSMTPServer to make new smtp server with properties {server name:theServerName, port:25, uses ssl:true}
set smtp server of theAccount to theSMTPServer
end tell
getAndSetAuthenticationScheme("SMTP", theSMTPServer)
end createNewSMTPServer
-- Handler for asking the user what authentication scheme their server supports.
-- The options are different for POP, IMAP, and SMTP. Unless you are told otherwise,
-- it's best to leave these at their default settings.
on getAndSetAuthenticationScheme(accountType, theAccount)
if accountType is equal to "POP" then
set theChoices to {"Password", "Kerberos 4", "Kerberos 5", "KPOP", "MD5"}
set theDefault to {"Password"}
else if accountType is equal to "IMAP" then
set theChoices to {"Password", "Kerberos 4", "Kerberos 5", "MD5"}
set theDefault to {"Password"}
else if accountType is equal to "SMTP" then
set theChoices to {"None", "Password", "Kerberos 4", "Kerberos 5", "MD5"}
set theDefault to {"Password"}
end if
set theResult to choose from list theChoices ¬
with prompt ¬
"Choose an authentication scheme for this " & accountType & " server. Most servers support 'Password' authentication." default items theDefault without multiple selections allowed
if theResult is not equal to false then
tell application "Mail"
set theScheme to item 1 of theResult
tell theAccount
if theScheme is equal to "Password" then
set authentication to password
else if theScheme is equal to "Kerberos 4" then
set authentication to «constant exutaxk4»
else if theScheme is equal to "Kerberos 5" then
set authentication to kerberos 5
else if theScheme is equal to "MD5" then
set authentication to md5
else if theScheme is equal to "None" then
set authentication to none
else if theScheme is equal to "KPOP" then
set authentication to «constant exutakpo»
end if
end tell
end tell
if accountType is equal to "SMTP" then
set theSMTPLogin to theUsername
set theSMTPPassword to thePassword
tell application "Mail"
tell theAccount
set user name to theSMTPLogin
set password to theSMTPPassword
set uses ssl to true
set port to 25
end tell
end tell
end if
end if
end getAndSetAuthenticationScheme
-- Handler for asking the user what POP deletion policy
-- they would like to use for their account.
on getDeletionPolicy()
set theResult to choose from list {"Immediately after being downloaded", "After a specified number of days", ¬
"When I remove them from the inbox", "Always leave them on the server"} ¬
with prompt ¬
"Choose a POP message deletion option:" default items {"Always leave them on the server"} without multiple selections allowed
return theResult
end getDeletionPolicy
-- Handler for setting the deletion policy established in getDeletionPolicy()
on setDeletionPolicy(theAccount, thePolicy)
tell application "Mail"
tell theAccount
if thePolicy is equal to "Immediately after being downloaded" then
set delete mail on server to true
set delayed message deletion interval to 0
else if thePolicy is equal to "After a specified number of days" then
set numberOfDays to my getDeletionInterval()
set delete mail on server to true
set delayed message deletion interval to numberOfDays
else if thePolicy is equal to "When I remove them from the inbox" then
set delete mail on server to true
set delete messages when moved from inbox to true
else if thePolicy is equal to "Always leave them on the server" then
set delete mail on server to false
end if
end tell
end tell
end setDeletionPolicy
-- Handler for asking the user what deletion interval they
-- would like to use, if they are setting up a POP account
on getDeletionInterval()
set theResult to display dialog "After how many days would you like POP messages to be deleted from the server?" default answer "30"
set numberOfDays to text returned of theResult as integer
return numberOfDays
end getDeletionInterval

Hi amiaba, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I can't quite tell what it's doing, but open Keychain Access in Applications>Utilities, click on your Keychain on the left, put .mac in the search bar, once you find it, double click on it and click show password.
If you have no mail in there try this with Mail quit.
Drag this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Start Mail & see if it steps you through it.
Not sure on the .uk thing, but is Date & Time>Time Zone set to the UK?

I'm in need of a menu bar new mail notifier...

Is there anything out there like GMail Notifier that will put an icon in the menu bar telling me that I have new mail? I need to have other windows covering the screen, can't always hear new mail alerts, and don't want to have my dock showing all the time. Just a little status icon in the menu bar showing maybe Online status, transferring, and unread messages. Anybody know of such a thing?
Thanks
AlBook 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

There are a few:
Mail Status Control
PocketLight
NotifX
iAlert
You will find these and more at www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com.

OSX 10.5.8 / Mail.app 3.6 - Mail.app No Longer Auto-Checks For New Mail

Since I upgraded to 10.5.8, Mail.app does not appear to be checking automatically for new mail. Regardless of how I set the preference (Every 1 Minute, Every 5 Minutes) it never checks for new mail, and I always have to click on "Get Mail".
I've verified this by opening the Activity WIndow and watching it for more than 5 minutes, with the preference set to 1 and 5 minutes between checks. I don't have time to test the longer intervals right now.
Mail.app is at version 3.6, modified yesterday morning at the same time that I used Software Update to apply the 10.5.8 update (from 10.5.7). I've used Spotlight to make sure that this is the only version of Mail.app on the drive.

Never mind...for the account in question, the "include this account when checking automatically" option was unchecked. Not sure how that happened...

Mail button erroneously indicating new mail

My inbox is indicating there is new mail when in fact there is not. There is also a button on the dock icon indicating new mail.
I have quit the program and restarted and it did not go away. Any suggestions?

I recall I have a "ghost" email issue a while back. Mail's dock icon would say I had 2 unread mails, but when I'd look at the Inbox there was nothing to be seen, and the count mysterious went to zero .. only to go back to 2 some time later.
I finally discovered that there were two messages which had been originated by my ISP's mail system administrator, but which were missing some headers or were corrupt in some other way. I could see them when I used the Web Mail system provided by my ISP, but they weren't visible in Mail. While in the Web Mail, I deleted these messages and the problem went away.
So, if you have some odd issues with Mail, it's always worth using your ISP's Web Mail system to see if there's something unusual in your Inbox.
Bob

Adding new mail adress to allowed sender list - Error 551

Hi,
I just tried to add new mail adresses to the allowed sender list and always got the error 551. I tried it yesterday and today several times with different browsers.
Please have a look at the screenshot (in German language).
Thank you!
This question was solved.
View Solution.

Hi,
Please check the solution from the following link:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/ePrint-Print-Apps-Mobile-Printing-and-ePrintCenter/error-551/td-p/27567...
Regards.
BH
**Click the KUDOS thumb up on the left to say 'Thanks'**
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How to deactivate notifications about new mail?

When I have an active mail account, I always get a notification when a new mail arrives. Can this be deactivated? I'd rather check manually at my own time, rather than having these notifications pop up several times every day.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

This depending on the devices, but for example on S60 devices, select Settings (or ctrl. panel or Tools) > Profiles > Highlight profile, for example general > personalise > Email alert tone (or mail alert tone) > Off. You can also change the alert tone.

Offlineimap-notify - wrapper that adds notifications for new mail

I've created my first little open source project (long overdue). It's a wrapper script that decorates OfflineIMAP's UI classes with notification sending for new mail, using Python's introspection facilities, before running offlineimap normally. See the man page for more info.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/offlineimap-notify/
Last edited by Raynman (2013-03-18 09:55:06)

Wibjarm wrote:
Excellent. This hits one of those little annoyances that's always seemed to never quite be worth fixing, for me. The only thing that it seems to be missing to me is the lack of a way to set the urgency of the notifications, which seems to be reasonably easy to fix (assuming I haven't missed anything obvious or otherwise done anything stupid):
EDIT: There was a patch here in a codebox, but it turns out that yes, I had done something stupid and it didn't actually work. I may or may not put a fixed version back up later.
Didn't look stupid at first glance; can't tell now. Anyway, I just pushed v0.5.1 to address this. For completeness' sake, I added a timeout setting as well.

No sound on new mail

I have done some research and found this (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10762187&#10762187) but alas, my problem is different.
Ok, this is what I see...
* in Mail, I open Preferences > General and have "Ping" set for "New mail sound". (it's slightly louder than the default sound, but it doesn't matter which sound I use, it doesn't work
* "Dock unread count" = "Inbox Only" (see below)
I am using an IMAP account to a server I run locally. There are folders that appear under Inbox and at the present time non of them have any badges indicating new mail. Under the account (further down) where there are top level mail boxes there are several folders with badges indicating the unread count....
All looks good so far, then this is where the problem lies...
When I receive new mail, the badge on the mail application in the dock comes up, but no sound comes up. That badge relates directly to the inbox and new mail. But INSIDE the mail application, no matter what I do, I can not get an unread mail badge on the inbox itself. I can have any number of new mail in the inbox root, and I can see them unread (bolded) on the right side of the screen, but there is no unread count on the inbox itself (and for whatever reason this is where I think the sound alert is linked to. Because this badge is not showing up, I not get sound. It's just a hunch, but I think I'm on the game
BTW before anyone asks, yes, my sound is turned on and not muted.
What am I missing???

I have found a work around, but it doesn't always work.
My processes thus far: I opened up Mail on a Snow Leopard and IMAP'd into the same mail account and the badge was located on the inbox. Sure enough, it sounds everytime new mail is received.
The ONLY way I can get the badge to appear on the main inbox, is to have mail monitor SEVERAL mail accounts. When I added a second IMAP account, the inbox suddenly had an unread count badge. Thinking my problem was solved, I deleted the second account and along with it, the badge also disappeared. I re-entered the account and it's back.
As I said, it still doesn't always sound for new mail, but it does sound MORE often. I'm not going to mark this as resolved, since I feel this is still a problem

Script that shows new mails from Google Apps account in conky

Hello guys,
I'm looking for a script that outputs the number of new mails I received from my Mail Account with Google Apps.
I've already found a script that works pretty well with the normal Gmail but not obviously not with Google Apps.
import os
import string
#Enter your username and password below within double quotes
# eg. username="username" and password="password"
username="username"
password="********"
com="wget -O - https://"+username+":"+password+"@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom --no-check-certificate"
temp=os.popen(com)
msg=temp.read()
index=string.find(msg,"<fullcount>")
index2=string.find(msg,"</fullcount>")
fc=int(msg[index+11:index2])
if fc==0:
print "0 new"
else:
print str(fc)+" new"
My idea was to replace mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom with mail.google.com/a/domain.tld/feed/atom but I always get connection errors like this.
Connection to mail.google.com|209.85.135.16|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, wait for answer... 401 Unauthorized
Connection to mail.google.com|209.85.135.16|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, wait for answer... 401 Unauthorized
Authorisation failed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/orschiro/.scripts/mail.py", line 15, in <module>
fc=int(msg[index+11:index2])
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''
Any suggestion what I could try?
Thank you in advance.
Last edited by orschiro (2009-06-19 17:55:07)

Here is part of a script that I am using with my Google Apps domain. Should be easy to follow. Just edit the three variables at the top of the script. I prompt for the password at boot so it is not hard coded in the script. I use x11-ssh-askpass for this.
MAIL_URL = ['https://', 'mail.google.com', '/a/domain.com/feed/atom']
USERNAME = "[email protected]"
PASSWD = "password"
def initMail():
passman = urllib2.HTTPPasswordMgrWithDefaultRealm()
passman.add_password(None, MAIL_URL[1], USERNAME, PASSWD)
authhandler = urllib2.HTTPBasicAuthHandler(passman)
opener = urllib2.build_opener(authhandler)
urllib2.install_opener(opener)
def checkMail():
logging.debug("checkMail()")
try:
f = urllib2.urlopen("".join(MAIL_URL))
doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(f.read())
c = doc.getElementsByTagName("fullcount")[0].firstChild.data
return dzenH1("Mail: ") + c
except urllib2.URLError as e:
return dzenH1("Mail: ") + "URLError"

Phantom Blank Spam blocking Mail from retrieving new mail in Apple Mail

Over the past few days my wife and I have both had difficulties downloading pop-3 mail from our accounts (from a UK based ISP, UKonline) onto our separate computers (Powerbook G4 and MacBook). I have no idea yet whether this is affecting other ISPs or other Mac or PC platforms or mail clients, but it is definitely affecting both of our Mail apps running under 10.4.7.
The problem seems to revolve around blank email messages being received into our respective accounts by at our ISPs mail server.
These blank messages, presumably some form of spam have no sender, no recipient, no date, no source code, no body text and no subject.
These 'phantom' blank emails appear to be the root of the problem as once they are manually removed from our server-side inbox (either through Apple Mail's 'Get Info' / 'Remove from Server' function, or via our ISPs webmail facility), the email starts picking up mail automatically again–immediately, without any other intervention other than clicking 'Get Mail'. Until they are removed, Apple Mail will NOT collect any more mail, automatically or manually through 'Get Mail'.
I have contacted my ISP and to date had no firm response from them. One of their operatives suggest I contact Apple as his Windows PC email still works and retrieves mail when these blank phantom messages reach his server-side inbox waiting to be collected.
The fact that these messages have no date means that under Mail's 'Get Info' / 'Remove from Server' facility, they always appear at the top with the CURRENT date and time when sorted by date. In this way, they are easy to spot. Also, if sorted by size, they also appear at the top because they are 0k in size. They appear to act as a blockage to receiving new mail until they are cleared.
I'd be grateful to hear if anyone else is having this problem or has found a solution to it, or indeed whether this is an ISP problem.
With thanks
Jamie
Powerbook G4 17" 1.67GHz & MacBook 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Macuser since 1987; Apple IIe veteran.

Hello Jamie.
These 'phantom' blank emails appear to be the root of the problem
as once they are manually removed from our server-side inbox
(either through Apple Mail's 'Get Info' / 'Remove from Server' function,
or via our ISPs webmail facility), the email starts picking up mail
automatically again–immediately, without any other intervention
other than clicking 'Get Mail'. Until they are removed, Apple Mail
will NOT collect any more mail, automatically or manually through
'Get Mail'.
What is your setting for removing messages from the server when downloaded by the Mail.app?
If set to right away, does this have any effect?
One of their operatives suggest I contact Apple as his Windows
PC email still works and retrieves mail when these blank
phantom messages reach his server-side inbox waiting to be collected.
Of course - especially if this operative is using Microsoft's Outlook or OE which usually don't have problems downloading anything including viruses, adware and spyware.
I'm not sure why these "Ghost" spam messages cause this problem with the Mail.app but these are obviously sent by a spammer to cause problems.
How about your ISP doing something about blocking all messages at the incoming mail server that are completely blank such as these so they don't arrive in any of their customer's Inbox mailbox at the server since these messages are intended to cause problems and are completely blank anyway? No different from any other type of spam or as messages are scanned for viruses at the server. Although Apple needs to look into this, your ISP is not completely off the hook or has no responsibility IMO.

Converting from "Classic Mail" to "New Mail"

I have just selected, in "Classic Mail" to box which says "Get the Newest BT Yahoo Mail". From the screen presented I then selected "Mail Home"
This diverted me to the "New Mail"
But
Later I clicked on the Favorite that I use to get into e mail & I was put back automatically into "Classic Mail"
I think BT have a problem!
What will happen to my mail system after "Classic mail" is turned off?
Have any other members had similar problems?
What do the Mods. think?

pottyperson wrote:
Assuming that's showing your stuff correctly, I'd set a new Favorite to take you there. Maybe the two versions run in parallel for a while after upgrading.
Yes, agree, but I think it very strange.
I would have expected, after converting, to always be directed to the " New Mail"
Also I was not asked to agree to new T&C's that I believe BT are introducing, hence I think they have a problem.

Phantom new mail!

Mail says there is new mail but when I look in my mailbox, I find no new mail there!
I have quit and re-opened the application several time but it always says there is "1 new mail" when there is none!
Does anyone know what's happening?

Greetngs,
If Mail says there is 1 new message but you don't see it, then it's not really there. Your Mail index could be corrupt, so try rebuilding it like this:
1. Quit Mail
2. Go to Home/Library/Mail and delete the Envelope Index file.
3. Restart Mail and wait for it to rebuilt the index, then check to see if the problem remains. If it does, select all the messages in your Inbox, mark them as Read from the Message menu, then quit mail and restart it again.

Always new mail, in mutt

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