EXperiencing that Mail is really worse in Leopard...
Just wanted to know if the comunity is experiencing the same thing as me...
I useMail.app for 7 years now and has always been happy with it.
Since Leopard I experience very bad behaviours and on several computers....
The first point is that Mail is strangely slow to be closed... The window of the message closed but The menu Mail stays on the top of the screen during 20 seconds....
The second point: sometimes you loose all your mailboxes. They disappear from the interface of Mail.
Has anybody got this sensation that Mail is worse since Leopard??? And sssslllllloooow. Again I'm talking abut several computers and even for a brand new computer I'm experiencing the first point...
While 10 GB is, technically, plenty, it causes your system to work much harder than it should. That 10 GB is scattered all over your drive in tiny little chunks. If you receive a single message, with maybe a small attachment, the system may have to find 5 or 6 different places on your hard drive to store all the various data and indexes. MacOS X tries to keep the system defragmented as possible, but this is making it that much more difficult.
Still, I doubt that is enough to cause noticeable slow downs like this. What kinds of e-mail accounts do you use? If you have IMAP or maybe some of the other, funkier, non-POP accounts, there could be all kinds of network activity going on. If your particular server is being uncooperative, Mail could have to wait for disconnecting and other various operations. It may be doing things at shutdown that are supposed to be fast, but, for some reason, are slow on your mail server.
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Plus people are having problems with certain features on the machine not working.
I think that your performance issues sound like something else is wrong... The 2GB is a definite problem -- do you know that you can buy 8GB for the machine for $60, and getting it installed is a snap? But the first thing that I would do is to install applejack and boot into single-user mode and run disk repair (aka fsck.) Another question -- if you look on your console, do you see a voracious cpu-eating process called mds? It's the indexer for Spotlight, and there is nothing to be done about it than to just wait it out, and your machine will work much better when it is done. And Spotlight is not just a SL problem -- if you install SL it's going to want to index your disk, too... -
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So the first piece of advice is to make sure you have a back up of everything.
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When I press 'Get mail' I see no visual confirmation that Mail is actually doing something such as the spinning connect wheel beside each account as the app checks that account in earlier versions of Mail up to Snow Leopard.
Thanks Eric, now I know, seems like I now have no option but to move to Postbox when I would have preferred to stick with mail for syncing. I have come from a MBP running Snow Leopard so I have no experiance with OS after that until this.
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3. Now open mail, it will give you a window saying you have opened mail for the first time. DO NOT click continue (yet), leave this window open for now in the background.
4. Go back to the users Library Folder (Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library) where you just dragged the Mail folder from. It should now have created a new mail folder. Rename this NEW mail folder something like 'mailold'.
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My 6months old Iphone 4S started to turn itself of or freeze before shutting down about a month ago.
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Has anybody else experienced that the water indicator has been damaged even though the phone has not been in contact with fluids?Hi,
I'm going to contact you via private message to get more contact info and case number.
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I get nothing but error messages, -
"Your IMAP server wants to alert you to the following: 113 that mail is not available" or the same with: 364?
Now there are hundreds stacked up on my desktop.
I cannot find the answer anywhere. You need to give answers to how to fix these errors because when I "search" "error code" or the number there is NOTHING. NOTHING! Yet you give us these stupid error codes
then you do not give us ANYTHING on how to fix these. These error codes make me so mad it makes me hate outlook, and hate the developers and hate microsoft. How in the world can you give us ERROR codes without the explanation of what
to do or how to fix it. You need to add each error code number in your "search" then explain what it is and how to fix it. I am not a tech. I am a lawyer. I have googled the entire string of error code and nothing is clear.
So, for the last several years, I get these error codes. Also, there is another error code that won't go away--it is the password error code that asks if I want to store the password. Yes, so I say YES. but it pops back. I am sick of this. This is the reason
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was that error codes and NO ONE knew how to fix them. WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM that you cannot fix the stupid error codes that you imbed? PLEASE HELPHi,
I understand how frustrated you are when facing such an issue, maybe I can provide some suggestions on the problem.
Based on the description, you should be using an IMAP account setup in Outlook. As for the error message, usually it's caused by a corrupted message on the Server. I suggest you logon the Webmail site, check if sending/receiving emails works well.
If you find any unusual emails that cannot be read or sent, try deleting them to try again.
I also suggest you create a new profile to setup the IMAP account:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829918/en-us
Contact your Email Service Provider to get the correct and latest account settings, since you have been using Outlook for years, some settings may have been changed while you haven't been informed.
For the steps to setup an account in Outlook 2010, please refer to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/outlook-help/add-or-remove-an-email-account-HA010354414.aspx
I hope this helps.
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Right now, when I release a PO or issue 'mail output' in message types and save it, it sends PO priview to vendor thru email.
I think its happening with config part which is done in NACE (custom message types...driver program...form routine).
Now the requirement is when PO sends to vendor, the documents which are attached to PO item also to be sent as attchments with that mail.
I have logic with me to get the documents of PO and to send them to vendor thru a seperate mail. But per requiremnt, it should happen only at the time of PO release.
Can somebody guide me how & where to place my logic in order to work it as mentioned above?
Points awaiting...Hi,
If the email should be sent to vendor only when the PO is released, the simplest way to accomplish this would be using a simple workflow which sends an e-mail to vendor with the PO attachment for the event 'released' of the business object BUS2012.
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2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
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3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
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