Created 'unread' mails in 'Sent' box

If I reply to a message, there are no problems. However, when I create a new message and send it, it shows up in my 'Sent' box as unread, i.e. the little blue dot appears next to the message in the 'Sent' box.
This is a new problem since I upgraded to 10.5.2. The 'Sent' box was working perfectly before, and has been since 10.0.0.

I think this problem is parallel to the "ghost drafts" appearing in the Draft folder, discussed
at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7155690#7155690
Both problems disappear when you uncheck the 'Store draft messages on the server' option within the Mailbox Behaviours in the Mail preferences. Still the option returns back to checked by itself after a while!..

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I am in the middle of a mail crisis and in need of help. I apologize for the longwinded explanation, but I thought I would be thorough in the hopes that it will help me get help.
It started with my sent box (which is very large) "dragging" when I ran searches in it (which I often have to do with my work).
Firstly, I tried to rebuild the sent box. Mail froze halfway through the process and I had to force quit it. When I started mail again, I noticed that the content of the messages were not correlating to the right message headers (recipient or subject line). I tried rebuilding the sent box again. This time, it went a little farther before freezing (it froze when the activity window indicated something was being done with the attachments - I can't remember exactly what). After force quitting again, I noticed that the messages in the sent box were correlating properly but it was stil very slow in searches, the box took a real long time to open, and sometimes it would freeze mail.
I then tried to reindex mail as per instructions found on the apple site: quit mail, go to the mail data folder, remove the envelope foldes, and re-start mail, which would cause mail to have to import the messages again. I made sure I did a back to up prior to trying this. When doing so, my time capsule accused that it didn't have enough space, and that is when I first noticed that my HD was bown up to near its capacity; strange, I thought, but proceeded to erase some media to make room so I could finish the back up. The importing/reindexing started and all was moving along fine until it got to the (now evil) sent box... it froze. I tried a couple of times, and it kept freezing.
I tried to go back to where I was before reindexing by erasing the new envelope folders that had been created, and replacing them with the ones that were there before and I had removed. It seemingly worked as Mail started again. However, now had more issues. First, my inbox was empty... I had to restore it from time machine back up. Then, I noticed that the content of the messages in all of my mailboxes would not load. I could see the messages and their previews, but the content would not load when I clicked on the messages. All of that on top of the sent box conitunuing to misbehave.
By this time, I started getting messages from the OS about my startup disk being almost full (real strange since I had just freed up close to 80 GB!). I knew something was wrong with that, but went ahead and got rid of another 30GB so I could proceed with trying to fix mail and would come back to this problem later.
I decided to try the reindexing again. Tried the terminal method, but nothing seemed to happen. Tried the replacing of the envelope folders again, and the same happened: froze and my HD went to capacity again. I then realized that the reindexing and the filling of the HD had to be directly connected. After some research, I downloaded an app (whatsize) to find heavy or duplicate files, and, sure enough, there were hundreds of GB in duplicate mail data (sent box) in my library. The Whatsize app is currently working to sort out all of the duplicate files (a 20 hour process). This is my first time using this app, but I am thinking that, upon conclusion, I should be able to delete the duplicates...
That brings to where I am at now. Where to go from here? After (if) deleting the duplicates, what is the best way to restablish Mail?
Any help will be much appreciated as I cannot work without Mail.

In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post, to let me see the names of the files and folders present at the root level of the Mail folder.
Before actually posting that information, you may edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you wish to keep private, e.g. you may replace any real username with "username" to hide your real email address if you wish; similarly, you may disguise any domain names you don't want to be revealed. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Finally, for the two accounts involved in the problem, locate the account folders within ~/Library/Mail/ -- their name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. For each account folder, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

Sent message not listed in 'Sent' box

My mail server is AOL. In Mail, I've got two sets of mailboxes per the default setup - my local in, sent and trash along with the AOL saved, sent and spam boxes from the AOL server.
The AOL boxes are always spot on, yet occasionally I will send a message and it won't appear in my local sent box. It happens sporadically.
How and why is this happening?
Thank you.

Dave Post wrote:
As an experiment, I tried deleting my Sent box (after archiving the things I cared about) and got no error msg re. "protected" boxes or anything else. Mail deleted the few remaining msgs from it but, instead of deleting the Sent box, added a superfluous toggle, i.e., as if it contained sub-boxes, which it didn't. Thereafter, I could send but no copies appeared in the Sent box. (Sound oddly similar?) "Rebuild" was grayed out for it, too.
I was able to correct everything by trashing the associated folder, restarting Mail, and then sending myself another msg to create a new Sent box for myself.
I'm suspecting a glitch created an extra, problematic Sent box on your system sometime ago and you've gotten used to it, thinking it's normal.
Do you find it useful to have 2 Sent boxes? If not, you may be able to delete one the same way I did and your problem should be solved.
I'm unclear as to how to determine which files to delete in home/library/mail.
Here's my Mail window:
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I have 3 mail accounts on ipad 4 - All Sent box indicates 57 unread messages. There are no messages in box. Help

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Csound1
I have, indeed, checked with my ISP and they do accept imap accounts. So I followed religiously their instructions, published in their setting e mail information for Mountain Lion website. The instructions were quite simple, and choosing imap was as easy as setting POP mail. however, the net result was that I could never connect with the servers to do anything with the mail. I know they are set up correctly, but when it tried to send mail, after a while an error message came up saying that it couldn't connect and gave me the option of dealing with a "connection doctor" or some such system. This I clicked on and noted that there were an awful lot of servers that it was trying to connect to some of which had been removed when I removed the setup addresses. The ones I wanted were, in fact, showing as connected!! It was obviously checking on anything that had been used in setting a server name from way back when and suffering with a severe bout of indigestion!
I think what really needs to happen is to get iMAC/Mountain Lion to regurgitate all that rubbish which is no longer a requirement, since I am only using three addresses, one from icloud and two from my ISP. I do not need the clogging up from redundant server names, but it seems that the MAC hangs on to everything just in case I may want to go back to them rather than set them from afresh!! I am not feeling too confident in trying to set the address that originally showed the problem, my BT one, and since this morning, it is almost working 100%, I'll leave well alone and see if it settles down. (One step forward and nineteen backwards!!)
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HT2731 Created Apple ID. But Not able to verify. Verification mail is sent on Apple ID and do not know how to check mails in mail box .

Created Apple ID. But Not able to verify. Verification mail is sent on Apple ID and do not know how to check mails in mail box .

The verification email will have been sent to the email account that you put as the primary email address on the account - log into that email account as you usually do and you should have an email from Apple.

How do I include icloud sent messages in my sent box on Mail

Hello
I file my mail on my Mac.
I am running 10.8.5, Mail 6.6.
I have a Sent box that looks like an arrow that contains my .Mac mail.
Inside mailboxes I have created there is a mailbox Sent Messages (iCloud) that I didn't create. This mailbox also appears on my iCloud Mail.
How do I move the mailbox into my general Sent mailbox so I can file my mail regardless of how I sent it?
Strangely I have more messages in the iCloud folder than in the Mail folder. This seems to be because they were inside the Sent folder on Mail until a certain date and then stopped being there.
Thank you

I hope Apple is listening -- the limits on system 6 prevented the ridiculous 6500 emails I now have on my iPhone. I'm not a programmer, but the ability to delete emails does not sound advanced to me in any way. I'm interested to know if it is for some bizzare reason.
Archiving seems straightforward enough...does Apple actually just want us to be forced to purchase more disk space? I like keeping all my messages on my server, but deleting them on my iPhone. It seems I am not alone.
Anika

New mail account has no sent box

Hi,
I have changed email hosts, so exported the mail boxes from my old email account then deleted it.
I then created a new account (with various errors of not being about to verfiy the account) and all my emails from the switch over (yesterday) have appeared. Now just to pull in the exported mail boxes.
Only one problem. There is no sent box for the new mail account?! I've tried twice now and nothign works. Emails send fine and are recieved by which ever mail account I send it to, but there is no sent box! I have two other email accounts through Apple Mail on MacBook Pro and both of those are fine and have sent boxes.
How do I solve this?

Sorry I wasn't clear in the first post. On my way into work today I started thinking it may be time to start over as well. You mentioned archive and install - would a clean install be better (I know it will be longer)?
Also, just for clarification - when I did a Full Restore from Time Machine was that the same as say restoring from a program like SuperDuper (that clones the hard drive)?
My thinking on this is if I do clean install, I should not restore from Time Machine if the structure carries over. That could be what is causing these problems. Instead I should back up my iPhoto and iTunes libraries via the built in back-up (to an external hard drive or DVDs), back up any documents, etc. and then really start over. Do a clean install, then reload 3rd party software from the original disks and restore the iPhoto and iTunes libraries, etc.

How do i create a mail box in the SMTP server thru a java program

How do i create a mail box in the SMTP server thru a java program. If it is possible thru a java program.pls suggest a mail server compatible for the above possibility to work.
pls help ....

Please let me know if it is not at all possible to
create a user account automatically thru a program
(java) in a mail server... how does yahoo work
then..does he manually add a user to the mail
server...By talking to a web server not a mail server.
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Is not there any mail server that will allow us to
create mailboxes for my java program.. how do the
other web account services work..
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When I send a photo from iphoto through e mail I cannot find a record in the sent box. Where is the record of the sent photo?

Where is the record of an e mail I send using i photo share? It isn't in the 'sent' box of my e mail account

What I am missing is the sharing history in iPhoto.
It's hidden and buried in the Info drawer for the photo.
And there's no way to search for those photos that have been emailed. If you want a sent copy BCC yourself on every email you send out.
OT

Sent e-mail messages do not appear in the sent box

sent e-mail messages do not appear in the sent box

Glad it's working for you but it's still not for me. I was sending emails fine today and they went to sent box then all of a sudden they aren't there. Does anyone know what is the problem and a simple solution?

How do i save all my mail in my inbox and sent box?

hello
i am going to upgrade my OSX to Snow Leopard
how do i save all my mail in my inbox and sent box then restore it when my new OSX is installed?
thanks in advance
tk

It's always good to have a backup, but Snow Leopard should leave all your data intact, just install new OS components & updated Apple Apps.
If you don't have room to back everything up...
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
For Address Book, quit AB...
Files...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.abd.plist
Folders...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/
If you do have room to back everything up...
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
Or SuperDuper...
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/

When I send mail on my ipad, it does not appear in the sent box.

I use bellsouth.net for email on my ipad, I have a sent box and it has some sent mail from a long time ago. My mail is being sent just not showing up in Sent Mail Folder. How do I get my sent mail to show up in the sent folder?

I don't quite understand your point. If iTunes leaves the book "ticked" it should transfer back to the iPad when you sync because the "tick" means that the item is selected to sync.
If you want to remove the book from your iTunes library, launch iTunes on your computer, click on "Books" under the library heading, click on the book that you want to delete and hit the delete key or right click on the book and select delete. I think both methods will work if you want to delete the book.
I don't know if that answers the question, but like I said, I'm unclear as to what you mean.

Sent mail has stopped appearing in the Sent box

Hello,
This problem just started 2 days ago. When I send mail I hear the little "sent" sound, but the email does not appear in my sent box. I am pretty sure that the emails are actually getting sent because I am getting replies to them.
It's just really annoying to not know if something has been sent or not (especially when they are emails to my boss).
I have an IMAP account set up with my school email address, and it has been set up for 2 years, it's working fine (the emails are actually getting sent to the best of my knowledge).

What you say doesn’t make sense. If messages sent from this account have been saved locally on your computer instead of on the server all this time, it has to be because Store sent messages on the server was OFF. Otherwise, messages sent from this account would have been stored on the server (or not at all if Mail couldn’t do that for some reason).
If Store sent messages on the server is ON, then the Sent mailbox that you see in Mail has to be somewhere on the server, but its real name could be something else (e.g. Sent Messages).
Changing the Store sent messages on the server setting causes a different mailbox to become associated with the standard Sent, so it should be no surprise that the contents of Sent in Mail change as a result, but the mailbox that was previously associated with Sent doesn’t just disappear; it should appear somewhere else in the mailbox list with its real name and a generic folder icon.
the "Sent" mailbox appears below the "Inbox"
No, if you’re talking about the standard Sent with the paperplane icon, that’s not what I’m asking. Actually, I didn’t mention “Sent” in that question at all, did I? I asked about mailboxes on the server in general? Or doesn’t this account have any server-stored mailboxes?

When I send a message using hotmail.co.uk, it does not appear in my Mac Mail sent box. How do I rectify this?

I am using Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2) on my MacBook (mid-2009); Mail version 6.1 (1498).
My incoming mail server is pop3.live.com (Hotmail).
When I send an email on the Hotmail website, it does not register in my Mac Mail sent box.
How do I rectify this?
Many thanks for your help in advance.

You have to send it from the Mail program on the Mac not the website. When you send it from the website it is in the sent folder on the website.
I handle all my mail in the Mac Mail program never the website.

Mail Messages Sent but not Stored in Sent Box

As of this morning I have sent probably a dozen or more e-mails but none of them are appearing in my Sent Messages Box. I have tried using both of my computers to send e-mails (which sync via .mac) and I have looked on .mac using my web browser but there is no record that the e-mails were sent (although is appears that they are going through). Any suggestions

Report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/ folder in the Finder.
In order to post the exact file names and avoid typing mistakes, proceed as follows. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, if you’re looking at it in View > as List mode, first collapse any expanded folders so that the Finder only shows the files and folders at the first level of ~/Library/Mail/. Now, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post.
Before actually posting that information, edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you should keep private, e.g. replace any real username with “username” to hide your real email address. Other than that, report the file/folder names as accurately as possible.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the procedure to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Finally, report the names of the files and folders present at the first level of the ~/Library/Mail/Mac-username/ account folder.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

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