Annoying Mail Bug

OK; I drag an image to my mail icon; drop it upon it; and it opens in a message ready to send. But another blank mail message window also opens up. This is getting annoying already. What could be causing it? Only addons I use are widescreen mail and dockstar
thx

Could be your mail preferences file. Unfortunately if you remove it so mail creates another one it will remove all your customized settings for Mail. However, if you're willing to try it, move the preferences file to a backup location (it's located in ~/Library/Preferences/ and is called "com.apple.Mail.plist") and restart Mail. It will ask you for your account information, but will maintain your mailbox organization after you provide the info.
If that clears the problem then you know it was the old preferences file, but if not you can always close Mail and drag your old preferences file back to the library, overwriting the new one and restoring your old settings.

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Thank you very much for your quick and kind response. I appreciate it and have fixed the problem. I didn't see the Advanced options prior to your email for the SMTP ~ and you've helped me considerably. Thanks
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This can also be achieved by going to Mail-->Settings-->Accounts.
If that doesn't work, perhaps go back to Mountain Lion and wait this issue (and a few others) out for a couple months. Please let me know if this works for you.

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Hi 1980LND,
Thanks for your help, I am not convienced if backup and restore would help. In the meanwhile I have found few discussions about this from 2010 -- Apple blames Microsoft Outlook protocol for this, but in my opinion this is wrong. If that is a known bug Apple should really warn their customers about losing data if they try to do that. Or just fix it even if Microsoft broke some RFCs. But yeah, with a message box with the warning "Due to a bug in Outlook protocol you are going to lose your text below the picture. Do you really want to continoue and lose the text below your picture? [I am Dumb Yes] [God No!]" would be sufficient, just do not let me hang and wonder where my text evaporated.
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Previous Recipient removal doesn't work in the long run. If a previous address becomes obsolete, theoretically, you can remove it in Previous Recipients under the window column.
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Mail seems to remain full of little bugs like this. Too bad.
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I have a similar problem. I can get rid of previous recipients on my Mac, but they stay around on my iPhone. I recently switched to MobileMe. The previous recipients problem dates back to before switching to MobileMe when I was syncing manually with iTunes.

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I have my security settings setup so that everytime my iMac goes into screen saver mode it asks for login password. Recently I have noticed that if I leave the computer unattended for a long period of time (a few hours) and come back, the mail app opens up. If I just go away for a few minutes and come back the problem does not occur.
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So I've tried both of the tips you gave my guys, but non of them works
But I've found out something. When I switch to different space (in spaces), than drop some file and then try to switch back to my mail space, there are 2 possibilities how to do it. First - I just move mouse to the space to where I want to switch, wait for a second and it switch automatically or I can move mouse to the space where I want to switch and than press spacebar to make it faster.
The strange thing with opening app from dock happens just when I press the spacebar.
And question for your other answer - yes, it happens just with apps in my dock.
It is so uncomfortable...
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Annoying font bug in EM

Good morning,
I am pretty sure this isn't the right place to report bugs but, since I do not have a Metalink account, hopefully someone that is an Oracle paying customer will do what I cannot.
EM has a simple but very annoying bug: it does not use a fixed font to display the output logs (of a job for instance). This results in output like this: (which looks even worse as a post in the forum than it does in the EM window)
>
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which gives the impression that there are 13301 corrupt blocks in the file examined (not the kind of thing a DBA wants to see). I doubt I have to point out how cumbersome reading this unformatted output is.
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Dear 440bx - 11gR2,
Unfortunately i have no idea about the problem that you have experienced. However;
440bx - 11gR2 wrote:
since I do not have a Metalink account, hopefully someone that is an Oracle paying customer will do what I cannot.Noone has rights to share the metalink notes on a seperate environment. That is forbidden. Please see the user rights assigments of the Oracle. Metalink is a paid area and can only be used for those who have already paid the price.
People here can only help you based on their previous experiences but they simply can not post, paste or share the articles of the Metalink.
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Mark,
Let's start with image files like JPEGs. You should send to those using PC and Outlook or Outlook Express using Plain Text, in addition to Windows Friendly. Rich Text Format can be problematic for them, and it likewise sometimes is to those using AOL and Lotus Notes (if there are any of those). If you use a Signature, make sure it is composed in Plain Text. Outlook and Outlook Express simply have problems with RTF, even when sending themselves since they use a proprietary version of RTF.
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Bug :
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This is BAD programming ! Please fix

Hi Netherlands,
Many, many rules active. Perhaps 100. None of which use the action "Delete Message." I have had these rules enforced for quite a long time. Years. Also I've ruled out a rules problem since their application is fairly instant. I've seen these E-mail. Gone back and replied to them. Gone back and seen them again and THEN they disappear.
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Apple Mail bug...

Hello.
Since I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, I keep having a specific bug with Mail.
After I erase e-Mails, I go into the Trash folder and it's empty. If I get back to my e-Mails folders, the messages I erased are once again there!
Basically, I send them to trash and they get back to the original folder! I'm currently on OS X Yosemite, and this bugs persists! Sometimes, though, Mail works perfectly.
Also, until OS X Snow Leopard, Mail had this icon, that showed each folder being 'updated'; I mean, showed each folder's content being transferred. After upgrading to OS X Lion, that icon disappeared. Is there a way to bring it back? I mean, activate it? Or is it gone for good?
Are there any alternatives to the Mail app on Mac App Store?
Thank you for any information you may give me.
All the best.

Hello.
(I can't believe it took me two months to write this...)
I did has you suggested. I rebuild all of my accounts.
At first it seemed to have solved my problem... but, several days later, it all started to happen again.
It takes forever for Mail to get my new messages... sometimes it takes more than thirty minutes...
I only started having this problem after upgrading to OS X 10.7 (currently on OS X 10.10.1).
This is one of the things that make me miss OS X 10.6...
Thank you for any new suggestion you may give me.
All the best. :-)

Serious Apple Mail BUG!

Bug
Whenever a computer is not connected to the internet and email has been written in Apple Mail while it's in offline mode and the application closed and then re-opened in "Offline" mode, Mail attempts to send mail sitting in the outbox nevertheless. Resulting in the first message in the Outbox queue for each SMTP used being automatically opened and the following error message.
*not able to send images to thread.
Since I use three different SMTP servers potentially three email windows can open when opening Apple Mail while in "Offline" mode. That means I have to click the "Close Window" button three times every time I open Apple Mail during the time I am not connected to the internet. Not everyone, including me, with a PowerBook, which is meant to be mobile, has internet access at all times.
How could this have possibly been overlooked? This has been a bug in all versions of Apple Mail!! Please FIX IT as it's irritating enough to force one to start sending snail mail or worse use Microsoft Entourage.
SIncerely,
John Prokos

Thank you for your suggestions, which is exactly what I was looking for. I have sent a feeback on Mail to Apple as you suggested. I am not sure that will make a difference but there is always hope.
Regarding your suggestion of saving email to the Draft folder… that would be a great solution but opening every email I had written during the week so I could send them off one by one is equally as irritating. I do wish there was a send button in the main window so I could group select email and send them off without having to open each one.

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I've tried to insert an SMTP mail account into my iPhone, but each time I try to enter data, the phone resets to its main menu.
Specifically, when I enter a 'password' for 'outgoing mail', any follow-on touch will cause the phone to return to the main menu. I have two other mail accounts set up and working just fine (.Mac and GMAIL), but this account requires a password for outgoing mail SMTP authentication - and that's where the iPhone stumbles. Has anyone else run across this bug?
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Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
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~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
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Envelope Index
ExternalUpdates.storedata
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Log out and log back in. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. Click OK. Warning: The process may take hours if you have gigantic mailboxes. For reasonable-sized mailboxes, it should only take a few minutes.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the files you moved to the Desktop. Otherwise, post your results.

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