Empty Mail messages

When I open some emails, the subject, cc, sender are all visible, but the body of the message is missing. If I then press "forward message", in the new window, it used to show the missing message as quoted text. However, now days it is just blank.
In the original message, if I click over the entire "empty" window, the message shows up in white against the blue highlighted background.
This only occurs with messages from some people, but not others. How can I fix it????

well, one thing that might do it is if the sender uses a coloured background & specified white text. Mail uses a white background, so white text would be invisible unless highlighted. This is a bit unlikely - it would require the sender to have chosen a coloured background for their viewing, but that wasn't encoded with the message.
Or... You haven't got any rules active that have r "Set Color of text" as an action... ? ( only a possibility if the "set colour to text = 'other' " & white is chosen.
Also check your mail-preferences-fonts & colours to see if any of the 'quoted text' colours are set to white.

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How to delete empty mail messages in my Ipad2

I am receiveng empty mail messages in IPad2 and can not select them for deletion. They have no headers, no from or to, nothing? Any clues on how to select them? Edit in mail does not work either.

Try turning the account off and on : Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars , then tap the account on the right, slide Mail to 'off', exit settings and go back into the Mail app, and then go back to Settings and slide Mail back to 'on'

Amount of mail messages slowing the app down?

My mail app seems to be taking longer than before to fetch messages and I was wondering if it had anything to do with the amount of mail messages in my various mailboxes. Can someone tell me, should I be clearing out old mail messages or is it safe to let them pile up indefinitely? I have 900 plus messages in Inbox, 1400 in Sent box and approx 1500 messages in other personalised mail boxes. Is this too much and will it affect Mail's functionality?
G5 DP 1.8 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

The number and combined size of all messages in an account's Inbox and Sent mailbox should not have any effect on the amount of time is takes to fetch new messages available at an account's incoming mail server but depending on how many rules you have created to sort reveived messages to user created mailboxes by cateogry and/or the number of Smart mailboxes will have an effect on the sorting process after all messages are downloaded.
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When sending e-mail messages to a mail-enabled public folder that have been replicated from old Exchange Server 2000/2003/2007, Exchange Server 2010 environment mails are rejected with NDR.

Hi, I would like to share with you issue that I’ve solved regarding mail-enabled PF that migrated from Exchange 2000/2003/2007 to 2010, I’ve searched & contacted my MVP leader – there’s no official KB regarding this issue right
now, so I’m posting here in order to share this among others.
Note: There’s article(s) that talked about PF replication from Exch2000/2003/2007 to 2010 – this is the same issue as well.
Symptoms
E-mail messages that been sent to mail-enabled public folder in Exchange Server 2010 environment rejected with the following NDR:
“#< #5.2.0 smtp;554 5.2.0 STOREDRV.Deliver.Exception:ObjectNotFoundException; Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message The Active Directory user wasn’t found. ObjectNotFoundException: The Active Directory
user wasn’t found.> #SMTP#”
Sometimes Exchange Server 2010 is documented as well Event ID 1020 on the Event Viewer with this information:
“Log Name: Application
Source: MSExchange Store Driver
Event ID: 1020
Level: Error
Description:
The store driver couldn’t deliver the public folder replication message "Hierarchy ([email protected])" because the following error occurred: The Active Directory user wasn't found.”
Cause
In an environment where Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 previously existed, and all those servers have been removed, there is a chance that an Administrative Group (First Administrative Group or another custom Administrative
Group) remains with a Servers container, but no servers inside it.
During replication, when the Exchange 2010 Store Driver sees the empty Servers container in Active Directory, it's expecting a System Attendant object inside the container and when it is not found the error occurs.
Resolution
To work around the issue, delete the empty Servers container. This can't be done through Exchange System Manager. Use the ADSI Edit tool to remove it using the following steps:
Warning If you use the ADSI Edit snap-in, the LDP utility, or any other LDAP version 3 client, and you incorrectly modify the attributes of Active Directory objects, you can cause serious problems. These problems may require you to reinstall Microsoft Windows
2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server or both Windows and Exchange. Microsoft cannot guarantee that problems that occur if you incorrectly modify Active Directory object attributes can be solved. Modify these attributes
at your own risk.
1.
Start the ADSI Edit MMC Snap-in. Click Start, then
Run, and type adsiedit.msc, and then click OK.
2.
Connect & Expand the Configuration Container [YourServer.DNSDomainName.com], and then expand
CN=Configuration,DC=DNSDomainName,DC=com.
3.
Expand CN=Services, and then CN=Microsoft Exchange, and then expand
CN=YourOrganizationName.
4.
You will see an empty Administrative Group. Expand the
CN=YourAdministrativeGroupName.
5.
Expand CN=Servers.
6.
Verify there are no server objects listed under the
CN=Servers container.
7.
Right click on the empty CN=Servers container and choose
Delete.
8.
Verify the modification, and try to send again the E-mail to the mail-enabled public folder.
Applies to
Exchange Server 2010, Standard Edition
Exchange Server 2010, Enterprise Edition
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Sounds like you are looking in the wrong Administrative Group container which is why you are seeing your Exchange 2010 servers in there.
When you install Exchange 2003 only you will see a container named by default as "CN=First Administrative Group" container. But this could be named anything if you changed the Organization Name on the installation when you installed the first
Exchange 2003 server into the domain/forest.
You will notice that when you install Exchange 2010 part of the AD setup is to create a new configuration container and is named by default "CN=First Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)".
So it sounds like you are not looking in the right location within ADSIEdit.
You may find the following article also helpful for this issue which is the same resolution:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/05/17/empty-cn-servers-container-causing-issues-with-public-folders-on-small-business-server-2011.aspx
I recommend though that you ensure your Exchange 2003 servers are fully uninstalled or no longer present in your environment before you go deleting the Servers container though.. The following Microsoft article will help with this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/gg576862(v=exchg.141).aspx

After 10.9.4 Update: Mail Messages Grey Out Upon Deleting-Don't Move to Trash?

Hello,
After 10.9.4 Update/MacBook Pro with Retina display: Mail Messages Grey Out Upon Deleting-Don't Move to Trash? I believe I must join those who are having trouble with mail after this latest update. Deleted messages just turn a light grey in the message panel and don't move to trash until after I quit and restart mail. I have also experienced the screen "Freezing" ... no spinning beach ball, just the pointer frozen. This has happened only when I use mail and requires a "hard" re-start to correct. Is this a "feature" of the update, or is it a problem? Thanks!

Some of your user files (not system files) have incorrect permissions or are locked. This procedure will unlock those files and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
Back up all data.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
sudo find ~ $TMPDIR.. -exec chflags nouchg,nouappnd,noschg,nosappnd {} + -exec chown $UID {} + -exec chmod +rw {} + -exec chmod -N {} + -type d -exec chmod +x {} + 2>&-
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open. In that window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
Quit Mail and empty the Trash. If you still can't, log out or restart the computer.

How do I record a voice mail message from our iphone onto my MacBook Pro?

My wife has a few voice mail messages on her iphone from her brother(who passed away). She would like to save these in a safe place where she can listen in the future. Recording these messages on an MP3 player as other have suggested, doesn't give us that permanence, security, easy accessability we are looking for.

I had exported an address book backup: abbu
so since i wrote, i have found my way into the cloud: selected all entries - deleted them all from the cloud.
This wiped out contacts on my iphone and i pad, and MBP, as well as on the cloud. I then imported the abbu back into my now empty address book.
To repopulate the crowd, i selected all in my address book and created a single card vCard for export to my desktop. I then dragged that vcard into my empty cloud. Now my cloud has the same clean contacts as my MBP addressbook. The cloud then pushed the clean contacts into my empty ipad and iphone contacts.
I had to go back to Address Book>preferences>Accounts and Add an I cloud account - but if you accidentally create a second i cloud account - all of a sudden your address book will duplicate itself. I quickly reversed it by deleting one of the icloud accounts in my Address Book>preferences>Accounts.
I created a new entry on my MBP and it is now on all devices and in cloud
I also created a new entry on my iPhone and it is now in the address book on my MBP.
I feel empowered!!
Have i missed anything??

MobileMe top-level folders not accepting mail messages

Strange thing...
Now that iPhone has "push" mail, I decided to take all my mail from Mail.app on my mac up to my MobileMe account. I wanted to do this as-is, but it's not quite that simple... However, the whole folder structure and all e-mails therein are now happily living in MobileMe.
Except that they are not! All the Top-Level folders that contain other folders are now white in Mail.app, and don't exist at all in MobileMe. It's as if all folders were one level higher than they should be - all folders directly contained in a white parent folder appear as top level folders in MobileMe!! On the iPhone, they do exist, but their names are greyed out. Both in Mail.app and on the iPhone, they are empty and you cannot add mail messages to them even though, in Mail.app "on my Mac" they still contain mail and will happily accept mail messages...
What gives? Is there something I need to do to change them from "folder folders" into "mail folders that happen to also have folders in them"???
G>

Not a single answer or post on this...
I decided to create new folders and add a dummy place holder message in them, then move over all the subfolders to this one. There was a bit of strange behaviour when synchronising with MobleMe (old folder disappeared without my deleting it, etc) but now all is well and all my top level folders can accept mails.
During the process, it seems like MobileMe didn't know that these folder existed - when renaming or deleting them, I do an error saying that they did not exist. Indeed, on MobileMe, they did not exist and this resulted in all the first level subfolders being at the top level in me.com - very messy. It looks a lot better now!
G>

Leopard's Spotlight doesn't search Mail messages

Leopard's Spotlight isn't searching email messages. I made a clean install of 10.5, and have two POP accounts. The message files are right there under ~/Library/Mail/... . I rebuilt the index for the system volume by adding and then removing the volume from the Privacy zone in Spotlight preferences. I also tried some of the command-line suggestions posted elsewhere for this problem. I recently added my backup volume to the privacy zone, but other than that the zone is empty.
But the problem remains. Outside Mail.app, Spotlight never comes back with search results that are mail messages. Inside Mail.app, searching "entire message" returns 0 results. Does anyone know how to diagnose this problem? Can I see if a particular file is included in the metadata index?

Hahaaaa! Solved it - at least for me...
Please read the whole explanation first before just gabbing any presented commands and executing them in the Terminal. The solution requires no Terminal.
I had exactly the same problem described by MikeW and JJ. I tried everything like you before at no avail, too. But I tried one more thing that did work and indexed all my mail. Here is what I did at the command line. Don't type the command right away. It will work, but this is not the root cause of your problem, I present it just to explain:
find ~/Library/Mail -name "*.emlx" -exec mdimport {} \;
This searches for the individual message (*.emlx) files themselves and throws them one by one onto the mdimporter which imports them just fine. Still, a plain mdimport ~/Library/Mail would not work which pointed me in the right direction: Spotlight did not "see" these individual message files. But Why?
I fiddled a bit with file/folder permissions since I also simply upgraded from Tiger and ended up with old Tiger permission based user accounts. No result. I discovered, that in Finder the mailboxes, say ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/INBOX.mbox etc. were displayed as package files instead of folders. Strange. So again I tried mdimport -d1 ~/Library/Mail now with a bit of debugging. Aha! Spotlight imports this folder as type 'dyn.ah62d4rv4ge81g45mr3wgn8a', or similar, a dynamic UTI, instead of with 'com.apple.mail.mbox' as what it should have been. Since this unknown dynamic UTI dosn't mean anything sensible to Spotlight, it would simply skip the folder, not scanning it's contents with the well known result that mails cannot be searched by content.
So, what is essentially overwriting these UTIs? Especially because this would not happen in another Leopard-created user account. I felt guilty as I added some custom UTIs in the past, but nothing to do with mail at all. So who carries UTIs for Mail.app? Well... Mail.app! Another Mail.app? YES! I remembered, that I had an older complete pre-Spotlight system backup on my current system, including all applications including Mail.app in version 1.3.something. AFAIK only with Mail 2.0 Apple changed the way Mail saves messages and they apparently also changed the UTI of .mbox to the new format. I simply deleted the old version of Mail.app. Immediately after that the icons of the .mbox changed and I could open these folders in Finder. I tried again mdimport ~/Library/Mail and - boom - Spotlight imported all my mails!
Long story to explain my thoughts, here are 5 steps for you to try:
1. Search your system to find out if you have multiple different copies of Mail.app. You can do that with Spotlight/Finder or enter in the terminal:
sudo find / -type d -name "Mail.app" -ls
(You need to be admin to sudo, type your password when prompted)
2. Locate and check the found versions of Mail.app in Finder via the get info window.
3. Delete all but the actual copy of Mail.app in /Applications from your system (empty trash!).
4. Enter the following line in the terminal to have Spotlight import your messages:
mdimport ~/Library/Mail
Should take much longer now, depending on the number of mails you have.
5. Check the result by searching mail content in Mail/Finder/Spotlight, enjoy!
Note: If you did find and delete old versions of Mail.app, but step 4 did not work, you might have to log out and in or you can even try to restart the machine. In my case the result was instant. If all of that did not work for you - sorry - but probably the above helps you to track your particular problem down.
ecke

Mail: "Message contains NUL characters," not listed in ANY folder

On occasion, I will hear a new message sound in Mail, and I will see the little progress indicator showing an incoming message, but there is no trace of it in the inbox. If I am there to see the incoming notice and remember the message content, I can search for the message content in Spotlight and it will open the message. But if I then click "Show in Mailbox," it opens a Mail list window that is empty and labeled "No mailbox." If I try to move the message by dragging its title bar icon, nothing happens. If I try to use the Move command, I get "Append failed: Message contains NUL characters." If I command-click the message title bar, it tells me it's inside the inbox, but again it won't list it in the inbox. The physical message file itself resides in the Inbox folder in the Mail folder on the desktop. Rebuilding the mailbox does not make it appear in the list.
I've found various workarounds for shaking Mail into realizing the message exists and listing it, but my real question is this: The above is when I notice that a message has come in but is not listed. But what about messages that come in and are not listed, and I do not know they are there because I wasn't around when they came in?
How can I use a mail rule or other tool to locate messages that are not listed in any mailbox, or contain NUL characters?
I would really like to know if I've missed any important messages because they never appeared in the list, even though they exist somewhere.
Mail will not allow me to set up a mail rule on folders when no folder is specified.

One thing I can suggest you try is to move the Envelope Index files from your User Library>Mail Folder>MailData.
Quit Mail first, navigate to those files and move them to the desktop. Restart Mail. It should give a message that you need to Import your mail. Click continue. That should reindex all your mail messages.
This should help with wrong message counts, ghost messages, and hidden message problems.
Once Mail is running and OK, you can trash those files.

Saved and sorted/filed mail messages missing

Saved and sorted/filed mail messages missing
October's messages are still there but all other messages are no longer in the folders. I have a confirmations folder with all forum and newsletter info for the last year that is empty. Where do these messages go?
I do not believe that I have it set to empty or delete itself after a certain time.
I can probably find these messages from comcast/gmail but still am wondering about this issue.
Thank you.

Hi, sounds like a Save/Delete 1 month check in the box. I actually have a gmail account which gets sent a copy of every email from my other email accounts..Once each month I can Delete or Keep as I wish. Back Up....L

Mail message is blank.

Even after the update 10.5.1 some mail messages send by a PC user are completely empty, I thought.
But when I look at the version there is a message. When I dig into the /library/mail/mailboxxes and then look for the messages folder and do a quicklook on the .emlx file the message is shown. Not empty at all. Does anyone have solution?

I don't have a specific reply, but the same sort of problem. E-mail messages sent from someone else with a G5 with Leopard 10.5.1, using a pop e-mail server, come up completely blank! But all my other messages from various other sources, including PCs from the same pop e-mail server are fine. The same person has also tried sending me a message from their machine with their .Mac account and I can see that e-mail just fine.
Also, ALL of my e-mails do not show me the header information. I have to run the mouse over the header area and click on the drop-down arrow that appears to view who has sent the e-mail, and to whom it was addressed!
Can anyone help me with this? I am currently at a loss of how to take care of this!
Thanks!

Importing Mail Messages with .emix extensions

Inadvertently I copied all my 8,000 older email messages into a folder thinking
I could copy the old messages into a new folder into mail on my other Mac. When I try to copy these .emix messages, it will not allow me. When I try to IMPORT these messages from mail, I cannot highlight the mail box to import.
I am able to read these messages when I open each one up individually.
Does anybody have any idea's of how I can get the 1.5gb of email messages into my new computer. I do not have any of the older plist files from the host computers library. I only have the folder with 8,000 .emix mail messages.
Help!

Rob,
I only have the folder with 8,000 .emix mail messages
If you put those messages in an correctly named folder hierarchy, Mail should be able to import them fine:
→ Import.mbox
→→ Messages
→→→ 1.emlx
→→→ 2.emlx
→→→ …
→→→ ###.emlx
(the actual numbers don't matter - no need to renumber them from what you have)
You should then be able to point Mail's import function to the folder containing the folder "Import.mbox" and in the next step can select a mailbox called "Import"
(If this does not work, you can also move the "Import.mbox" hierarchy as described above into ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and quit and restart Mail. You will then see a new local mailbox called "Import" which is initially empty. After selecting "Mailbox → Rebuild" from the menu you should see your messages appear)
Andreas

EMLX mail message files don't appear when I look at the folder in mail

I have a new imac. I am having troubles running mail. I imported into mail mail folders ((on my mac)). When I open mail I can see some folders imported correctly with all messages within intact but some folders though appearing as mailbox folders are empty of messages. I look in finder at the directory and can see emlx files in the folder. I cannot get mail to recognise those messages.

Did you ever find an answer to this. I just found the same problem.
Thanks

Mail messages missing after upgrade to 10.4.3

Short story: I upgraded a Mac from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3 and now none of my old received mail messages are in my inbox.
Long story: Installed Tiger using "Archive and install". Repaired permissions. Installed the combo updater to 10.4.3 using software update. Repaired permissions again. After the system was upgraded to 10.4.3 I opened mail. It said it was importing messages. However, when it was done, there were only 6 messages from the last few days. The other 400 or so messages that had been in mail (in the inbox) in the previous version were not in the mailbox. I tried rebuilding the mailbox. This resulted in losing all of these 6 messages. I tried importing from the old account mailbox and mail re-created the mailbox structure, again with only 6 messages in the inbox.
I have tried re-importing my inbox which is listed as 18.2 mb in size but I get a dialog box that says there are no valid mail messages to be imported. I have tried importing messages from my backup disk, a backup created before the 10.4.3 upgrade but it gives me the same “no valid messages to be imported.” I have tried rebooting but there are still only 6 messages in the inbox to be seen.
Of note, the sent mail box is full of messages and appears to have been upgraded appropriately.
The application mail and all associated mailboxes etc are in their default locations. I have not moved or modified any of the locations of files.
Any ideas on what happened and more importantly how to restore or otherwise make visible all of my mail messages?
Thanks,
Pete

Hi Ernie! I really appreciate your assistance. Are you ready for this? I had 13 POP accounts... Here is the current info on the files on my Mac (upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3 last night)
Pop Account 1 Folder (Main email account lost all inbox messages)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (3.9 MB)
- content_index-h-67-100-128-207.sttnwaho.dynamic.covad.net-542 (5.3MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (117.1 MB)
- Messages (empty folder)
- Messages-T0x560b9f0-pyksdq (contains file named 1.emix, 4KB)
- tableofcontents (264 KB)
Pop Account 2 Folder (Smaller email account appears to be intact)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (208 KB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (416 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 31 "emix" files, 488 KB)
- tableofcontents (8 KB)
Pop Account 3 Folder (Minor email account - not much was here, might be ok)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (16 kB)
- content_index-h-67-100-128-207.sttnwaho.dynamic.covad.net-542 (8 KB)
- Info.plist (4 KB)
- mbox (4 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 1 "emix" file, 4KB)
- tableofcontents (4 KB)
Pop Account 4 Folder (important email account lost all inbox messages)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (1.4 MB)
- content_index-h-66-167-49-109.sttnwaho.dynamic.covad.net-455 (1.4 MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (3.3 MB)
- Messages (empty folder)
- Messages-T0x560b9f0-4voERb (contains 1 "emix" file, 4KB)
- tableofcontents (40 KB)
Pop Account 5 Folder (Minor email account - couple messages made it)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (20 kB)
- Info.plist (4 KB)
- mbox (8 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 2 "emix" files, 12 KB)
- tableofcontents (4 KB)
Pop Account 6 Folder (Minor email account - couple messages made it)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (8 kB)
- Info.plist (4 KB)
- mbox (4 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 1 "emix" file, 4 KB)
- tableofcontents (4 KB)
Pop Account 7 Folder (important email account - inbox seemed to come through - not positive it is all there, but it looks good)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (2.8 MB)
- content_index-localhost-574 (2 MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (25.9 MB)
- Messages (Folder contains 670 "emix" files, 25.9 MB)
- tableofcontents (176 KB)
Pop Account 8 Folder (inbox messages appearing - not sure they are all there)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (628 MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (2.7 MB)
- Messages (Folder contains 130 "emix" files, 2.9 MB)
- tableofcontents (28 KB)
Pop Account 9 Folder (Minor email account - couple messages made it)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (116 KB)
- Info.plist (4 KB)
- mbox (1.9 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 4 "emix" files, 1.7MB)
- tableofcontents (8 KB)
Pop Account 10 Folder (Smaller email account appears to be intact)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (16 KB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (12 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 4 "emix" files, 20 KB)
- tableofcontents (4 KB)
Pop Account 11 Folder (inbox messages appearing - not sure they are all there)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (756 MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (13.6 MB)
- Messages (Folder contains 152 "emix" files, 12.3 MB)
- tableofcontents (60 KB)
Pop Account 12 Folder (inbox messages appearing - not sure they are all there)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (500 MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (5.7 MB)
- Messages (Folder contains 93 "emix" files, 5.5 MB)
- tableofcontents (24 KB)
Pop Account 13 Folder (inbox messages appearing - not sure they are all there)
INBOX.mbox contains:
- content_index (80 MB)
- Info.plist (4KB)
- mbox (128 KB)
- Messages (Folder contains 13 "emix" files, 148 KB)
- tableofcontents (4 KB)
When I compare the above INBOX.mbox files to the 13 POP account folders in my pre-upgrade Retrospect Backup, the files sizes match, but the difference is there are no "Messages" folders in the backup - I assume these are folders/files Tiger built (and screwed up) during my first launch/import of the Upgraded Mail.
Thanks again for looking at this.
Mary

Missing mail messages-can anyone help?

Short story: I upgraded a Mac from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3 and now none of my old received mail messages are in my inbox.
Long story: Installed Tiger using "Archive and install". Repaired permissions. Installed the combo updater to 10.4.3 using software update. Repaired permissions again. After the system was upgraded to 10.4.3 I opened mail. It said it was importing messages. However, when it was done, there were only 6 messages from the last few days. The other 400 or so messages that had been in mail (in the inbox) in the previous version were not in the mailbox. I tried rebuilding the mailbox. This resulted in losing all of these 6 messages. I tried importing from the old account mailbox and mail re-created the mailbox structure, again with only 6 messages in the inbox.
I have tried re-importing my inbox which is listed as 18.2 mb in size but I get a dialog box that says there are no valid mail messages to be imported. I have tried importing messages from my backup disk, a backup created before the 10.4.3 upgrade but it gives me the same “no valid messages to be imported.” I have tried rebooting but there are still only 6 messages in the inbox to be seen.
Of note, the sent mail box is full of messages and appears to have been upgraded appropriately.
The application mail and all associated mailboxes etc are in their default locations. I have not moved or modified any of the locations of files.
Any ideas on what happened and more importantly how to restore or otherwise make visible all of my mail messages?
Thanks,
Pete

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy,
The same here -- Mail.app 2.0.5 eating messages.
Here I go: have just finalized my update from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3 after using 10.4.3 as a secondary system but keeping email and addresses and stuff on 'prime time' 10.3.9 system up until today.
After some trying (and always starting over from clean files again), this is the way I have migrated my email:
In 10.3.9:
1) Clean up the old mail boxes and move all messages from "Sent" and "Inbox" to real mail folders "Old Sent" and "Old Inbox".
In 10.4.3:
2) Take the Mail preferences from the old system to the new one (to have all the accounts)
3) Take the Address Book preferences and application support files from old to new.
This all worked well.
4) Start Mail.app. This builds an empty mail box hierarchy.
5) Use the "File/Import" command to import all my old mailboxes.
First it seemed OK. My "Old Inbox" folder was there with about 120 messages (that was yesterday). Today I fire up Mail.app and find 5 messages left in "Old Inbox". I check a few other mail boxes.
Conclusion:
The new Mail.app just drops email messages. No error. No warning. Nothing. How can I rely on this software? I can't!
I have big mail folders and small ones. Mail.app seems to randomly decide to discard messages. One mail folder which Mail.app 1.3.11 happily handles (~1800 messages, ~43MB) has shrunk to 400 messages. I spied into the Mail.app 2.0.5 mail database (the file/folder structure it uses to store things) and I can see the missing messages are not just hidden -- they are truly gone from the database. Above mentioned folder gets exactly one message every day. So I can see if there are messages missing. It has kept the messages of the last 400 days. In the "Old Inbox" folder mentioned earlier I can see no pattern of which messages are gone
Thank god I still have 10.3.9 on a (now) external disk.
Are some of the controllers of Mail.app quality reading this? Aye? Please do something. How can it be that a comparatively simple function (storing email messages) is breaking down so badly in a piece of software that is a few years old?
If I could at least run Mail.app 1.3.11 on my 10.4.3 system then I could wait for Mail.app 2.0.6 and keep hoping. But the old Mail.app will not start up on 10.4.3.
Or someone please tell me what I've done wrong.
Cheers,
Jörg
Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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