Mac Mail Message Limit?

I just migrated from Leopard 10.5.8 and moved from a G5 to an 8 core Mac Pro. My message count in Mail has topped out at 1111. If I download new messages, the count still reads 1111.
Anyone know or care to guess as to why this is happening?
TIA.

Never mind... bonehead moment as I was seeing the Unread count. DUH!

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I don't really need Mac Mail on my iPhone anyway. I'd like to just delete it all together buy iPhone Apple rep said that I can't because it's synced?
I don't get it.
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Just thought I would add that in case it's relevant to this process.

Go to iCloud.com and click on mail. Then you can delete multiple messages quickly. All you have to do is hold your shift key and your up or down arrow keys to select multiple messages. If you have important ones, you can select up to those ones and delete the junk.
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Setting up an email client with a new computer won't erase the copies of the email on the web; they are only deleted if you explicitly delete them, or if the client is set to use the POP protocol and the option to delete them on the server when they are transferred to the computer is chosen. If the IMAP protocol is used, the messages are not automatically downloaded to the computer upon receipt, and are available only on the web unless saved manually.
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From an Apple information document:
You can send email from your @icloud.com address by following these instructions:
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Choose your @icloud.com address from the list of addresses.
Compose your message and send it.
On number 2, where is the from field in a Mac mail message?

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Embedding a hyperlink in a New Mac Mail message

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Gentoo, that does the trick nicely! A simple double click of the folder name does indeed bring up the text box for editing.
A big thank you for pointing that out, and i am sure there will be others wondering the same thing, so hopefully they will see your answer.
Sorry for delay in answering, i had not subscribed to the thread thinking that there was no way of doing it, so another thanks for sending me the pm letting me know you had answered.
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Mail sees the number of .Mac mail messages, but not anything else about 'em

Pretty straight forward problem.
Mail says I have .Mac mail on all of my .Mac accounts yet when I click on them in Mail they cannot be seen in the list.
ALL SOFTWARE IS UP TO DATE/LATEST AVAILABLE.
Do ports have to be opened up for Mail to work? If so, how do people like me with five computers in their house each use Mail?
In the left pane under the INBOX, I see all of my accounts.
For one/my/main .Mac account, I hear the chime of NEW MAIL and see the red circle/dot with the number of new mails.
When I click on the .Mac account, the right/upper pane shows nothing - it is blank.
All of my other myriad of pop/imap accounts defined in the mail.app work perfectly well.
.Mac mail accounts.
email accounts from .Mac.
Family pack gives a person five accounts. I mentioned that so that it the fact it happens with all the subaccounts and all my computers would eliminate any individual account and any individual computer from being significantly different than any other typical setup and thus eliminate them from being the focus on any suggested fix.

I'd suggest creating a new test user account from the system preferences. Log in, open Mail, enter your .Mac settings and see how it goes.
Alternatively, you can try to reset Mail.app by renaming (for backup purposes) the following files: (This will affect your other mailboxes as well!)
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Assuming a new Mail setup actually works, post back in case you need help on importing your old POP3 messages.
If not, I've no idea what to do... Your firewall should not affect .Mac behavior. (I got to admit, I don't particularly like Mail.app's buggy IMAP implementation.)
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export bookmarks to a file, open this file in safari and enter command+I. You can of course simply attach the file to your message.
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Hi
I have a G5 pre Intel OS 10.5.8, with Mac Mail v 3.6. I cannot open my messages. I still can receive and send messages. I checked with my ISP and my settings are correct. Mac Mail's Connection Doctor says connection with the internet and my ISP are good.
I believe I will have to reinstall Mac Mail. I first want to make sure my messages are saved.
Does anyone know where on my computer the messages reside?
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What exactly happens when you try to open them?
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
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Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
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/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
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/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup
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I am using Mac Mail 5.2 on a MacBook Pro with OS 10.7.4. If I open a folder in On My Mac, it shows the mail under the headings From Subject Date Received. Is there any way I can insert To into the headings,so I know to whom the e-mails were sent?

Sounds to me like it is. The mail apps on any OS are just slaves to the delivery by the mail servers they are configured to use. When the servers deliver the stuff the mail apps just receive the stuff and tell their user about it. Sure it's buffered somewhere, but not for a day, unless of course, you configure you mail program to only check mail once a day or the servers themselves are broken and can't deliver the stuff (it happens).

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No, this is not a really huge deal but it's just annoying enough to warrant a question here - and it hasn't always operated this way so something must be going on.
My inbox is telling me I've received mail properly, and the messages are definitely there...but they remain hidden above the last message I read until I scroll up.
When I look at my message list, the last message I read is sitting at the top.
In order to view the new messages I have to scroll up manually to view them.
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I'd suggest creating a new test user account from the system preferences. Log in, open Mail, enter your .Mac settings and see how it goes.
Alternatively, you can try to reset Mail.app by renaming (for backup purposes) the following files: (This will affect your other mailboxes as well!)
Preferences: your_name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
& Mail folder: your_name/Library/Mail/
Assuming a new Mail setup actually works, post back in case you need help on importing your old POP3 messages.
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Office mail configured on MAC Mail, messages sent out are tagged as SPAM

Hi All,
This being my first question, excuse me if I have selected a wrong community for this question.
Here is what I am having difficulty in configuring my MAIL client:
I have configured my office mail, and when I send any message from this, the mail is being tagged as SPAM by my office mail server and all my mails are going into JUNK folder of receipent, when I looked at the RAW message here is what I see:
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at inedasystems.com
X-Spam-Flag: YES
X-Spam-Score: 8.328
X-Spam-Level: ********
X-Spam-Status: Yes, score=8.328 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6
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          by localhost (mail.inedasystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)
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Received: from static-168.236.99.14.tataidc.co.in (unknown [14.99.236.168])
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I have configured my GMAIL and the mails are working fine with that server. The line that is underlined in bold is the difference in the header when I send using my office ID and from GMAIL configured: with configured GMAIL the line looks like:
Received: from static-168.236.99.14.tataidc.co.in ([14.99.236.168])
        by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id el2sm18448487ibb.10.2011.12.08.03.12.56
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My IP address is being treated differently in both the cases. Is there something I need to do extra to solve this issue. This might be the reason why Iam not able to send mails to any other domain other than my office domain from my OFFICE ID.
Is there something that Iam missing while configuring??
Thanks in Advance,
Pradeep

If you are running a mail client, then your mail client is probably not configured to use the correct ports with your office mail server (use of the mail submission port, TCP 587 would be typical). It looks like you might be connecting in without benefit of authentication. Work with your mail server administrator to determine local requirements for your particular mail server. (It's somewhat surprising you got as far as sending mail with this configuration and got detected as a spam engine; your office mail server may well have other issues.)
If you are running a mail server (more typical of this forum), then the following diagnostic is your answer why this message got rejected: [BAYES_50=0.8, HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR=1.951, RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT=1.449, RCVD_IN_PBL=3.335, RDNS_NONE=0.793]
Loosely translated, your mail server IP and DNS looks like a spam engine.   (Now whether that's your office mail server that's configured incorrectly and being detected as a spam engine, or your mail client that's getting misdetected by a somewhat-too-open office mail server wasn't immediately clear to me.)
More specifically, this diagnostuc means your public reverse DNS is not an IP address that is expected to be sending mail. As is listed in the diagnostic, the IP address you are using is in several blacklists. Among other issues, the IP address is being detected as a dynamic address (HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR), it's listed in a Barracuda blacklist, and it's listed in a Spamhaus blacklist.
Talk to your ISP, and get your forward DNS, your reverse DNS and your MX record to all match your domain, and both you and your ISP will want to get your IP address out of the blacklist.
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Have had my iMac for about a month, month and a half. Email has been working fine. Starting yesterday, when I open Mail, I see the new messages coming in at the bottom. By that I mean, the number of messages arriving. I also happens to show 0KB/sec. Just now seeing 33 messages arriving, but then they are nowhere to be found in my inbox. The email account is my ISP account cox.net. Like I said, never a problem until yesterday. Went out to another yahoo account and sent myself an email and my number of messages increased to 34 incoming messages when I hit "Get Mail". But, the messages just keep disappearing.
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HI,
Not sure if this applies but...
*If messages disappeared from mailboxes*
If all the messages in a mailbox have disappeared and are missing, it’s possible the mailbox contains too many messages and attachments. This can happen with mailboxes whose sizes range from hundreds of megabytes to more. Although you can’t see your messages, they’re still in the mailbox.
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If you have multiple email accounts, view the inbox for each account separately, instead of viewing the Inbox mailbox. The Inbox mailbox displays messages from all of your accounts, and all of those messages together might be too large to be displayed.
Quit Mail and then reopen it.
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