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I recently reactivated my Road Runner cable internet service after a four month hiatus. As far as I know all my Preferences for the email account were the same as when I shut off the service in June. All I changed was under Advanced Tab where I checked the Enable Acct. box. When I open Mac Mail I get the following pop up message:
The mailbox “~/Library/Mail/[email protected]/Deleted Messages.mbox” is currently locked by “John Cuddeback” on host “cpe-66-25-148-214.austin.res.rr.com”. If you open a mailbox that already is in use, you may damage its contents.
If I select the Open Anyway radio button, I can go the one of the mail boxes where a new message is indicated and open the box and see the mail. However, I keep getting additional copies of the email every time the Mac Mail checks the Road Runner server. The only way I can stop getting copies of the same email is to go to the Road Runner server and delete them.
I have contacted the ISP and when I say Mac they start scratching various parts and say check with apple.com. Any suggestions??

First off, I suggest you not post this kind of
account info in the clear in a public forum for
security & anti-spam reasons.
Regarding the message itself, do you have the web
mail interface for this account open at the same time
you are using Mail to access the account? Have you
logged out of the web mail version before using Mail?
It sounds like some other client app or possibly the
web mail interface has opened a session with the
account & hasn't closed it, preventing Mail from
setting its own lock with the server for its own
session.
Thanks. I just went into Road Runner and changed all the account passwords then made corresponding changes in the Mail Account passwords. This seems to have worked.
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dechamp wrote:
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