Dissapearing Mail

Hello,
I'm fairly new to Mac Mail and I've been having a few problems with it. First of all I've noticed a few times when I check my email it says I have more new messages than I actually have. An example today was the mail icon said I had 6 new messages then when I opened up mail the 6 quickly turned into a 3 and the other 3 emails were gone before I could see what they were. The other problem is that I don't have a Junk Mail folder I read through some discussions and I didn't have a junk.mbox folder in my mail account so I created one, the other folders are labeled as .imapmbox, I have only an Inbox/Sent/Trash in the actual mail program. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Hi
This is not an answer but a continuation of the problem and I think I am having the same issue. In my case I have a folder in the Inbox for one account and it says that there are 37 messages. Yet when I open that inbox, I see nothing. I also have a trash folder that shows nothing. The only item that seems to suggest that these are different from any other folder where I can see the contents is that there is a "twistie" in front of the two folders that I cannot see the items. Maybe if I could discover what that twistie is and how to get rid of it that may solve my problem.

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Hello mark:
You can set aside a concern about a virus. There are NO documented viruses that affect a Mac running OS X - none.
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Hello everyone!
Note**: I am in no way attempting to illustrate how to get FREE email listing from Yahoo! Mail, I am only reciting what I have stumbled upon. I do not know if Yahoo! actually wants this to work in Mail. but it does, so if they didn't want it to work they will patch it or something. I recommend that you take advantage of their paid service(annual) which allows POP forwarding of emails quickly and withou any need for reconfiguration.
I hope this "fix" is not being rementioned or creates redundancy, however after hours of searching all sorts of foums(including the Apple forums ofcourse) I was unable to find a true fix. Simply put, I just got a brand new Macbook Air 13'' for Christmas 2011. I also bought a Macbook Pro 15'' back in late 2010. I was never able to get Yahoo! Mail configured even through methods of IMAP rather than POP or POP3. Oddly enough, on my Macbook Air and Pro, now, when I try to redo the Yahoo! settings, my Inbox would display messages for a matter of seconds and then the messages would dissapear. However, there was still a number next to my Yahoo! e-mail, accurately indicating how many unread messages I had. I fixed it like so:
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2) Once your Yahoo! Mail account is IMAP simply go into the Mail application on OSX (Mac). On the top bar of the Mail pane click on the "Mail" option in between the Apple sign and File. Then, Click on Preferences from that dropdown pane. When this window appears, Click on the "@" symbol that says "Accounts" right under it. This is in between General and RSS options. Under the left-hand list that says "Accounts", click on the "+" sign as opposed to the "-" sign you will see there. This will allow you to setup an account or additional accounts. A window then will appear with options:
3) ****Make sure you ARE connected to the internet wirelessly or via ethernet for this part!****
---------- Full Name: (Enter Full Name Here)
---------- Email Address: (Type in full email address, e.g.: [email protected])
---------- Password: (Type in your password to your email account, this IS CASE SENSITIVE.)
4) Now! Listen! (lol), hit create and let the mac show you the settings it has pinged back from the Yahoo! mail server. It should illustrate that your e-mail is an IMAP based email address etc. As long as the account is created with the IMAP configuration and Mail reads it as so, you have succeeded thus far.
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dechamp wrote:
What Mac Mail did was delete ALL inbox messages from my yahoo account, after one week from importing them to Mac Mail.
The Yahoo server did exactly what you Mail program told it to do.
Mail/Preferences/Account/Advanced - This setting is adjustable for each mail account.
I didn't know about this feature until it was too late. I have already unchecked it for future emails.
I was wondering if there is a way to retrieve these deleted messages back to my yahoo inbox.
Not Really, you could forward them to your account, after you've told your mail program not to delete the emails at all, but they will show up as being from you instead of the original sender. The originals at Yahoo have been dumped and probably purged. It would take an IT manager at Yahoo to manually replace the emails, not much chance of that.
I've already asked yahoo to "restore" my inbox to a day ago. That should help me with retrieving some of the messages back, I hope.
Also, I was wondering about the sync feature on the Mac Mail and what will actually happen if I use it. Does it apply to mail messages, or to address book and calendar entries?
The sync feature refers to IMAP email accounts like .Mac or .Me or an Imap gmail account. I didn't think Yahoo offered IMAP email accounts.
Apple's MobileMe membership will let you sync your Mail, AddressBook, Calender, personal website with iWeb, etc.
"MobileMe is a service that pushes new email, contacts, and calendar events over the air to all your devices. So your iPhone, Mac, and PC stay in perfect sync."
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/
I wanted to use Mac Mail, see if I liked it or not, then decide to get a MobileMe account. However, this is still a side note, since my yahoo account is my main email client.
You seem to be very well informed, and I was wondering if I can ask you to clarify a point for me. Do you know how to archive the inbox in the Mac Mail?
And thank you for answering my queries.

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I hope that I am not off topic here.
I am used to mail - I am not interested in changing to another non-apple client...
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Hi Donald,
thanks for your attempts helping me out of this mess.
I checked all my settings.
I created a new account.
The dissapearing won't go away.
From time to time, when switching from inbox to sent box or trash
I am getting a message window:
Das Postfach „~/Library/Mail/[email protected]/Drafts.mbox“ wird zur Zeit von „xxx xxx“ auf dem Server „xxxuserxxx.local“ benutzt. Wenn Sie ein Postfach öffnen, das bereits benutzt wird, beschädigen Sie es möglicherweise.
schreibgeschützt öffnen or beenden or dennoch öffnen
(Sorry, this is German!)
In English it would be something like that:
The Postbox „~/Library/Mail/[email protected]/Drafts.mbox“ is now used by „xxx xxx“ on the server „xxxuserxxx.local“. Opening a postbox which is already open could damage this.
Three options:
protected opening or quit or opening in any case
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1. Quit Mail.
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Ask for any clarifications or if you need further assistance.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user's home folder.

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