Lion Mail Problem

I just began using Lion but can not get Mail to work. I can't see the viewer window and I can't tell if it's receiving mail. Has anyone had Mail problems that can help me solve this?

Same problem here...
I can see the preferences, write new email, but that's all i can do...
However, i have no doubt this problem will be solved soon!
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Mountain Lion/Mail problem

Since installing Mountain Lion, Mail slows down to a crawl every few days (I've purged every cache more than once) and iTunes shuts off out of the blue. Anyone else having these problems?

Since the last couple of ML updates I can no longer send any mails.

Mountain Lion Mail problems

I have mountain lion installed on a MBP i7 2.7 GHz and Mail has gone nuts. It won't open a new mail viewer window under the file menu but will under the window menu. When it does it doesn't display any messages in any folders, the toolbar has no buttons or search field. When I open preferences and check then uncheck "make this account active" the messages all appear, but the other display issues continue.
I can send and receive mail but repairing permissions and restarting make no difference.
It all started after I ran disk warrior after the machine wouldn't restart.
Can I reinstall Mountain Lion or Mail? I'm really at odds with this. Thanks in anticipation.

Shootist007 wrote:
Command+r will boot to the Recovery HD partition and then when you select Reinstall Mac OS X it will download Mt Lion for the Apple web servers, IE from over the Internet.
You could and should make your own Mt Lion install USB thumb drive. There are many articles on how to do it and I've found this program the best for astually making the USB thumb drive.
Mene1, I found the discussions useful but there were so many fixes that worked for some and not for others - some of which I tried - that I resorted the reinstalling ML as you suggested.
Shootist 007 completed the picture so I feel that now I have a workable strategy if it happens again.
Essentially if Mountain Lion Mail is going nuts and you have zapped the PRAM, repaired permissions and started to fiddle with files in the library I for one would go straight to a reinstall as described by our guru friends.
I will definitely be making a bootable USB of ML - how do I ensure I have the latest version or do I have to run software update staight after an install from USB (I'm guessing the COMMAND R procedure installs the latest update since it downloads ML direct from the server.)
Thanks so much.

Lion Mail Problem. Hangs on startup

Upgraded from SN to Lion. All works fine except Mail. The program tried to open a non-active IMAP account 33 times and hung. Now opening the program, I've set all account to offline, but still get the wheel and cannot reindex, or perform any mail functions except to quit. I've removed all the accounts from advanced setup.
Any way I can delete the mail catalog and start over with adding accounts, etc?

Try the following:
Quit the Mail.app first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Preferences > com.apple.mail.plist. Move the com.apple.mail.plist file to the Desktop.
Note: Moving the com.apple.mail.plist file out of the Preferences folder will require re-entering all email account information when re-launching Mail.
The only exception to this is if you have a .Mac account which will be re-entered automatically and/or if you created an email account as part of the computer setup assistant when first turning on the computer after purchase.
Launch Mail and decline any prompt to import mailboxes. After re-entering all email account information, the Mail.app should rediscover the existing account named folders and mailbox files at Home > Library > Mail.
After confirming all mailboxes were successfully rediscovered, you can delete the copy of the Mail folder and old com.apple.mail.plist file from the Desktop.
Test if this resolves the problem.

OSX Lion Mail problem

I use 2 locations for work and home. Each has a different ISP. At the home address I can send / receive mail with no problem. At work I can only receive mails but only rarely send. Any ideas how I can send from both locations?
At the work location, the mac.com email seems not to connect, but I can still recieve to my private email address which is from another provider.
Any help to solve this will be greatly appreciated!!!
Thank you

Hey there, if you want to Ungroup emails I was having the problem until I played around and found it, go to the >> View Menu >> uncheck Organize by Conversation.

Hi, i have upgraded my mac to OS Lion. mail problem

now my mail does not work. i get a massage: tht i have mail 4.4, and that i can't use version application mail with this version of mac osx
Please Please help me.
thanks,

thansk for you answer, but i have mail in my Applications foler, and when i try to open it, it gives me the same answer: "you have mail 4.4". i think i have to upgred it. how do i do it?
thanks,

Mail Problems in Lion

Having problem with mail ever since I installed Lion: it keeps correcting my spelling, when in Mail-Preferences I've selected 'Never' as my spelling-correction option. Pretty annoying, especially since it tries to make spelling corrections of foreign words which are being used correctly. Anyone with a similar problem? How do I correct this??

I was able to resolve most of my Mail problems after I zapped the pram. Mail was frozen and I couldn't force quit it. Now I can edit the drafts, and my unread message counter is working again.

Mail problems in Lion-drafts, message indicator

I have encountered the following problems regularly since switching to lion:
1. Message indicator in dock does not display count of unread messages
2. Drafts, once saved, cannot be edited.
3. Multiple drafts of sent messages remain in the draft mailbox.
I've tried resetting some of the preferences, such as unchecking the box to keep drafts on the server, with no success. I have also rebuilt the mailboxes. I have repaired permissions.

I was able to resolve most of my Mail problems after I zapped the pram. Mail was frozen and I couldn't force quit it. Now I can edit the drafts, and my unread message counter is working again.

Problems importing email from Snow Leopard Mail into Lion Mail

I've recently moved from a MacBook Pro 1,1 running Snow Leopard to a new MacBook Pro running Lion. I had the folks at the Apple Store do the set up - they migrated everything from my old to my new.
Everything is where it should be and most everything works, except Mail.
I have about 90 GB (yes, I know) of stuff in the Mail folder and every time I try to import the old emails into Lion Mail the process stalls out. And when I try to restart I have twice as many emails and I lose 10+ GB of hard drive space. I've gone from having 110GB available to 50 GB in two days and I still don't have access to my old emails.
I've deleted the envelope files, the smart mailbox files, deleted old attachment files and other cruft still floating around the Mail folder but my last attempt at importing stalled out and quit after getting halfway through.
Any suggestions or ideas? Help!

Thanks.... I actually managed to find nearly 70 GB of attachements and trashed emails which apparently Apple Mail still keeps in the Mail folder. I'm trimming now and I'll try another import this evening. In related news, my system is working much much faster now.

How do I stop Mountain Lion Mail from downloading emails?

I create html newsletter emails for a church organization using a combination of Dreamweaver, Safari and Apple Mail. Since I moved to Mountain Lion, however, I have an Apple Mail problem.
Our organization uses an AOL email address. Under Lion and previous OS's, I was able to create the organization's account in Apple Mail, unclick "Include when automatically checking for new messages" in Mail Preferences, click "Enable this account" in Mail Preferences, and be able to send the finished email without routinely downloading all the emails from the organization's AOL inbox. Although I've followed this same procedure in Mountain Lion Mail, the app still insists on downloading their emails!! Is there any other switch to shut it off?
Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks. Unfortunately, I have several email accounts in Mail. 'Sorry, I didn't indicate this before. Prior to Mountain Lion, I was able to set Mail to automatically download email for all accounts except the organization's. Although the "Include when automatically..." checkbox in the organization's specific account preferences seems to provide this control in ML ... it doesn't

Many Lion Server Problems

I think I have run into most of the Lion Server issues mentioned so far and perhaps a few self inflicted new ones.
1) Upgrade from Snow Leopard worked except the migration failed. Naturally I did not have a backup of the server configuration.
2) Manual configuration has many problems related to the machine name. I was using a linux box for DNS and a private LAN DNS name space. My router is configured to forward many services to my OSX Server box. Somehow I could not configure Lion Mail to operate. The machine name, Internet name, local internet name, etc. are very confusing and different things happen depending upon using Server or Server Admin. In Snow Leopard I could use a command line utility to set the return mail address to my MX record but under Lion I had to eliminate the private LAN name space, configure Lion to be the DNS before I could get e-mail to operate correctly from both IMAP and WEB mail.
3) Once you attempt to use Open Directory the only way to correct a failed configuration is to re-install from scratch.
4) If LDAP and the Password process fail to launch then they ping on/off every 10 seconds forever. Only a re-install from scratch is the fix. When this happens it appears that the permissions on the boot drive are hopelessly broken. I do not mess with the permissions but now I am pondering a nightly permissions repair script.
5) Using self signed certificates seems to cause many problems. If I use them for the mail server everything is OK. If I use them for Open Directory I cannot seem to get the other systems to connect.
6) Under Snow Leopard I could see all users and their pictures on the remote Mac's. I can't find this on Lion.
7) Open Directory quit after a week of operation requiring a clean install from my backup. I turned off Reserve Server Resources. I hope this helps.
8) Timeouts on Lion seem to be infinite. Once one application falls into a timeout you eventually must power cycle the whole machine.
9) The first time a user users mail I have to force kill it and restart before it performs the initial configuration. This has happened 3 times so far.
10) Manually editing user permissions from Finder within the Admin account (i.e. correcting my old user directories to match my new user ID's) is an exercise in futility. Using the command line seems to be the only reliable way.
11) I still cannot get profiles to work but I am afraid to try because the server seems to fragile.
12) Carbon Copy Cloner is a required tool with Lion. As soon as you have something working, make a fresh backup so you do not have to redownload everything. I now make a nightly backup of the boot drive with CCC and cron.
13) Some settings only take affect on a reboot, when you are making/testing changes this causes an interesting phase delay between making a change and observing an effect.
My system is a Mac Mini with 8GB and 24TB of RAID storage on Firewire.
It hosts home directories, e-mail, wiki's, etc for my wife & kids. All data is on the Mini so the other macs at home are bare except for OS and Apps.
This upgrade has caused more trouble than all other system upgrades I have ever done. It is making me think seriously about making another stab at LDAP/OD on Linux for my home server.

You might want to take a look at the much more functional AirPort Utility 5.6 for Mac OS X Lion on a "test" Mac to see if that works better for you. Oddly, 5.6 was released on the same day as AirPort Utility 6.0.
You can keep both 5.6 and 6.0 on a Mac (You cannot delete 6.0).

Shortcut for changing "from" field in Lion Mail?

I manage a number of email accounts from Mail, and frequently need to send messages from one account, and then another account, and then another account ... In Snow Leopard, I enjoyed creating shortcuts to change the "from" field of an outgoing message. For example, in the keyboard system preferences pane, I assigned the command "My Name <[email protected]>" the shortcut of "SHIFT+CMD+X". That way, while writing an email, if I noticed that it was about to send from the wrong account, I'd just hit the keystroke instead of grabbing my mouse. Mail apparently knew what I was doing, because on the drop-down tab for "From", each of my mail accounts also showed the custom assigned shortcut.
This ability seems blocked in Lion. Whenever I try to re-create these shortcuts in the preferences / application-shortcuts pane, they won't work! What's worse, whenever I quite and re-open System Preferences, I find that my shortcuts have been re-assigned an extra open-bracket, such as: ">My Name <[email protected]>".
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Is it possible to re-create these shortcuts in Lion Mail?

MOE O wrote:
So Entourage can go to the previous message? How do you do that?
I can't stand that Mail always goes to the next newest message after deleting.
Every other email program I've ever seen (including Entourage - see below) can do this. Why can't Apple? I don't want to touch the mouse most of the time because it really slows down work to move ones hands back and forth. I did a quick web search and found these shortcuts for all the major programs. If you know of any other program besides Apple Mail that doesn't have this, let me know.
Until then, if Outlook, Outlook Express, Entourage, Sparrow, Postbox, and Thunderbird have had this, what's Apple's problem adding it?
David
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Color picker for text in Mac OS X Lion Mail is not working properly

I found a bug in Mac OSX Lion Mail program. I tried it on 3 different machines and they all act the same. When you compose a new message in mail and you change the color of the text to another color than black with the color picker, the text changes to the apropriate color. If you try to select that same text and try to revert it's color to black again using the color picker, the text bocomes blank and you cant see it anymore.
Does anybody have the same problem as I do?

Same problem here - it's a bug which hopefully will be fixed in a future update.
In the meantime, here is a workaround:
Highlight the text you want to change
Click on the color icon
Click on "Show Colors"
Run the "Back slider" a little up, and then all the way back again.
This should make the text black again - it's a little cumbersome to say the least, but it does the trick

Lion mail doesn't allow shortcuts for bold and italics.

Hi,
I've come across this problem in which Lion mail doesn't allow shortcuts for bold and italics. I try pressing the short cut for Command + B or Command + I
but it does not affect the text at all. I have to move my cursor to the Bold or Italic icon to change a particular word's form.
Of note, Command + U allows me to underline a word just fine. I also write my mail in the default Helvetica, and in size 12.
Anyone know of a solution? I'm pretty sure it's just a glitch, but it's become a great annoyance for me.
Thanks for your help!

Hi,
I've come across this problem in which Lion mail doesn't allow shortcuts for bold and italics. I try pressing the short cut for Command + B or Command + I
but it does not affect the text at all. I have to move my cursor to the Bold or Italic icon to change a particular word's form.
Of note, Command + U allows me to underline a word just fine. I also write my mail in the default Helvetica, and in size 12.
Anyone know of a solution? I'm pretty sure it's just a glitch, but it's become a great annoyance for me.
Thanks for your help!

Mountain Lion Mail cant print or save multiple messages???

The question is not a question because I already know.....
Mountain Lion Mail obviously cant print or save multiple messages !
There are multiple threads about that, but I couldnt find any solution :
I want to export a full folder of mails (emlx) to single PDFs
and I want to have the Images displayed ! (Lion Mail could do that!)
saving as RTF just shows a link and not the image if it is just a linked image
and saving multiple mails doesnt work anyway. same for printing (and save as pdf)
did anybody run into this... maybe find another solution?
automator doesnt really help on this, too, and i dind find any tool.
word opens emlx files, but the image is displayed just as a 1x1cm thumb
that is really annoying !

I restarted the iMac and now it seems to allow this operation - so I consider this problem resolved for now.

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