Invisible mail messages

I'm having trouble with Mail. Sometimes I click on reply to a message and the original message text disappears - rather frustrating when I'm trying to answer someone's questions. But its not a setting I've chosen - most of the time the original message text is there.
Now it's got worse - some messages are hidden I know not where. I searched for an email I knew had been sent... when I used one word of the subject spotlight found nothing but when I used the other it found the email. But when I clicked on it nothing came up - it appeared to be empty. Also it is mysteriously blank in the 'Mailbox' column. Same problem for all my emails from this person - someone in my address book, not blacklisted. Are these mails in limbo somewhere?
Really hope someone can help with this...
Thanks!

I'm experiencing this too... it seems sporadic
Sending out of the office to a different email client seems to work OK
Sending to others on our own network who also use Macs with Apple Mail seems to cause a problem.
The subject line of the emails I send is OK
The body of the email is invisible
My colleague that received the invisible content was able to view it - by replying to it, the content displayed in the body of the reply email
Anyone any ideas?
I had so many problems using MS Outlook 2011 that I decided to ditch it
In favour of Apple Mail
It seemed universally recommended as the best alternative
I like the stability of Apple Mail
Only now I'm now wondering if I made a big mistake

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Invisible mail message

I'm having trouble with Mail. Sometimes I click on reply to a message and the original message text disappears - rather frustrating when I'm trying to answer someone's questions. But its not a setting I've chosen - most of the time the original message text is there.
Now it's got worse - some messages are hidden I know not where. I searched for an email I knew had been sent - when I used one word of the subject spotlight found nothing but when I used the other it found the email. But when I clicked on it nothing came up - it appeared to be empty. Also it is mysteriously blank in the 'Mailbox' column. Are these mails in limbo somewhere?
Really hope someone can help with this...
Thanks!

Your chances to get an answer will dramatically increase if you post in the right forum.
[Forum : Mail and Address Book|http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1223]

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HI Stefan, i tried, but still it is giving same error. Yes, i am able to access outlook mail with the user credentials given in the communication channel to access exchange server.
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href="http://sgt.us.oracle.com/pls/htmldb/f?p=132:101">E-Leave
System</A> 
-----=1T02D27M75MU981T02D27M75MU98--
-----=1T02D27M75MU981T02D27M75MU98--
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declare
l_body_html varchar2(4000);
l_subject varchar2(100);
begin
l_subject := 'eLeave Notification from ' || lower(:app_user) || '@oracle.com'; l_body_html := ' E-Leave System Notification for SGT China.(Note: it is NOT an official leave system) ' || '<HR align=left width="70%" noShade>' || '<TABLE width="80%"><TBODY><TR>' || '<TD width="20%">Leave User :</TD><TD width="50%">' || lower(:app_user) || '@oracle.com' || '</TD></TR><TR><TD>Formal:</TD><TD>' || :P3_FORMAL || '</TD></TR><TR><TD>Type :</TD><TD>' || :P3_LEAVE_TYPE || ' </TD></TR><TR><TD>Begin Time :</TD><TD>'
|| '' || :P3_BEGIN_TIME || '' ||
'</TD></TR><TR><TD>End Time :</TD><TD>' || '' || :P3_END_TIME || '' || '</TD></TR><TR><TD>Urgent Contact :</TD><TD>'
|| :P3_CONTACT ||
' </TD></TR><TR><TD>Note :</TD><TD>' || :P3_NOTE || ' </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><A
href="http://sgt.us.oracle.com/pls/htmldb/f?p=132:101">E-Leave
System</A> ';
HTMLDB_MAIL.SEND(
P_TO => :P3_MAIL_TO,
P_FROM => '[email protected]',
P_CC => :P3_MAIL_CC,
P_BCC => :P3_MAIL_BCC,
P_BODY => l_body_html,
P_BODY_HTML => l_body_html,
P_SUBJ => l_subject);
end;
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So, the functionality of "Save drafts on server" is widely known amongst IMAP clients, and it would be nice if Apple Mail would simply replace a previous draft of a particular message with the latest version rather than piling up multiple versions of the email. Also, it's customary that when you eventually send the message, the drafts also disappear.
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I want to store all the mail messages to some specific folder after read it. i tried it with setFlags but it's not working
Plz suggest any of the option
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i created a folder name as "ShiftedMails" and try the following code:
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at com.sun.mail.pop3.POP3Folder.getFolder(POP3Folder.java:127){color}

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On my 8830...When I move e-mail messages from my Inbox to a different folder (under Inbox), they disappear totally from my laptop e-mail rather than mirroring what I did on my BlackBerry. On the flip side, if I move messages from my Inbox to another folder on my laptop, it does mirror on my BlackBerry. My e-mail is Outlook 2003, running on my company's Microsoft Exchange Server. Please help.

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Mail messages going to drafts

My email messages are all ending up in the drafts folder, even though they have been sent. Any way to get these out of the drafts folder??

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All I see is "open", "open in a new tab" and "Pin".
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Hi lwvirden,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to modify the OOB approval workflow in SharePoint Designer.
After opening the site in SharePoint Designer, just click Workflows in the left panel and then the workflows in the site will load in the right part.
If you want to copy and modify the OOB approval workflow, then you need to right the approval workflow
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