Mac Mail -Very Strange

My inbox says I have 4294965754 messages. I know for a fact I have 134, I counted them. Why is it telling me I have so many????

And if that doesn't work, try rebuilding your Spotlight index by dragging your hard drive into Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Spotlight -> Privacy and then selecting the minus sign below the field that holds the folders in the Privacy tab, and click on the Spotlight menu in the upper right every half hour to watch and see when it no longer says indexing. Then the index will likely be better. Note my user tip on maintenance of Mac OS X:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1772235
Doing unneeded maintenance can lead to the corruption you just saw.

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Mac Mail very slow when waking

Hello
Mac Mail is very slow on my machine, just stalls and gives me the spinning wheel for several minutes. Usually it is when the machine has woken up; it appears that it is trying to do background tasks (like fetching mail) while this is going on but I am unable to switch to Mail for quite a long time. I sometimes see notifications of new mail in this period, equally it sometimes shows in Activity Monitor as "not responding" (although if I wait it eventually comes back).
It is runnning on a brand new MBP retina, lots of RAM, disk and processor available.
It collects mail from four mailboxes, three of them are Exchange and one is IMAP. None are massively high volume, kind of normal to low usage for the average person I guess. I did rebuild the database a while ago, but it just lost lots of mail which then needed to be slowly re-downloaded. I gave up on Outlook (on my previous machine) for being generally crashy, dysfuctional and annoying but now Mail isn't far behind.
Contacts, which I just leave open in the background quite often, also seems to be having trouble staying alive. Often "not responding" and requires a forced quit.
Any suggestions?
Dominic

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Quit Mail.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Relaunch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you'll have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.

Mac Mail Very Slow (Spinning ball)

Hi -
My Mac Mail has gotten very very slow lately when first opening the app, or returning to the app after a long rest.
The ball starts spinning and it takes about 2-3 mins before I can use mail.
My mail database is very very large. 20GB, so I assume that is part of the problem. I did rebuild but that didn't seem to help.
Any ideas on how I can handle that, other than dumping my archive?

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Quit Mail.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services > Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Relaunch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you'll have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.

Mac mail very slow

Mac Mail is suddenly sending mail very slowly. After hitting send, it takes as much as 2 minutes to send. Any solutions??

Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
Back up all data.
Quit Mail.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services > Reveal
from the contextual menu. A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Relaunch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you'll have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.

Mac Mail very very messed up

Since I download the last updates for my Mac, my mail program has become almost unusable.
1. It will not shut down - have to force quit and computer won't shut down until this has been done.
2. Nothing appears in my 'sent' folder when I send e-mail - even though recipient says they have been received
3. Mail hangs when being sent - on occasion taking up to 5 minutes to send an e-mail.
Please can someone tell me what is going on here. I have deleted all my e-mail accounts and set them up again, checked and double checked all settings, run repair disk permissions until blue in the face and nothing seems to help. I am not a 'techy' person and so can't go into the 'inner workings/code' etc to check things, just don't know how.
This is just particular to my Mac, as when sending mail from my iPad or iPhone it goes straight away and I have no problems at all, therefore nothing to do with my router, isp or anything like that.
Some support on this would be great as I am pulling my hair out.
Thanks - from a very upset Mac user

Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V, then press return.
A folder window will open. Inside it there should be files with names as follows:
          Envelope Index
          ExternalUpdates.storedata
Move those files to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have longer names that begin as above. Move those files, if any, to the Trash.
Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. ClickOK. Typically, the process takes a few minutes, but it may take hours if you have gigantic mailboxes. In that case, you may be able to speed things up by temporarily adding your home folder to the Privacy list in the Spotlight preference pane. Remove it when Mail has finished importing.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the files you moved to the Desktop. Otherwise, continue.
Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folders. In OS X 10.9 there are two sandboxes, while in 10.8 there is only one. If you're running a version older than 10.8, this comment isn't applicable.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
          Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder—not just its contents—to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window.
This action will delete any custom Mail stationery that you have created. If you want to preserve it, ask for instructions.
If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
          Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar and paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V. You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Mac Mail very slow in and out

I upgraded to Yosemite a few weeks ago. ever since my email has been painfully slow connecting to the iMAP server. Messages will sit for hours in my outbox, and attachments take forever to download. I have tried the offline/online work around. Makes no difference. I try quitting and re-opening mail, no difference. I am now re-building my mail boxes but the speed or lack of it in downloading the messages back from the server seems soooooo slow. Any other ideas anyone please??
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Email Keeps Asking for Password on Mac Mail

Mac Mail very often asks for the password on my Verizon email accounts (only). When I go into Mail preferences often the password has been erased. I have also changed the authentication settings from APOP to POP.
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Its an issue that is specific to the keychain access and mac mail.
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I'm using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11. A very strange thing is happening. E-mail messages that I either sent or received months ago are showing up in my mailbox and receivers' mailboxes. Help!

I'm using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11. A very strange thing is happening. E-mail messages that I either sent or received months ago are showing up in my mailbox and receivers' mailboxes. In one case, a message someone had sent to me wound up in the mailbox of a third person, who was not included in the address list!! I have only two accounts, and have checked everything; only one account is showing the repeats Now, that account is my professional account, and it resides in three places: I use it on the laptop described here, I use it through Apple Mail on the much newer desktop Mac in my office, and I can run it through Web mail on my employer's server, which is where the professional account resides (I have a mailbox there, etc.) That program is called Zimbra.
My personal account is with Earthlink and is not doing the repeats. I access it either through my MacBook's Apple Mail or the Web; the Apple Mail on my office Mac is not configured to access the Earthlink server.
What IS going on here?? My friends, colleagues, and students (I teach college) are mystified by these ancient messages.
Thanks for any help!!

I'm using Apple Mail 2.1.3 on a MacBook running OS 10.4.11. A very strange thing is happening. E-mail messages that I either sent or received months ago are showing up in my mailbox and receivers' mailboxes. In one case, a message someone had sent to me wound up in the mailbox of a third person, who was not included in the address list!! I have only two accounts, and have checked everything; only one account is showing the repeats Now, that account is my professional account, and it resides in three places: I use it on the laptop described here, I use it through Apple Mail on the much newer desktop Mac in my office, and I can run it through Web mail on my employer's server, which is where the professional account resides (I have a mailbox there, etc.) That program is called Zimbra.
My personal account is with Earthlink and is not doing the repeats. I access it either through my MacBook's Apple Mail or the Web; the Apple Mail on my office Mac is not configured to access the Earthlink server.
What IS going on here?? My friends, colleagues, and students (I teach college) are mystified by these ancient messages.
Thanks for any help!!

Mac Mail is displaying strange characters

My Mac Mail is displaying these strange characters on a number of seemingly random emails from people. However, when I copy the message and paste it into a word document or the internet browser address bar it converts these "letter A in a box" characters into what the words actually were. But this is a hassle and I'd rather just be able to read the text directly in my mail application... Thanks for the help.. hopefully it is a simple fix.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/bleed0black/Screenshot2012-07-20at115951A M.png

You're very welcome.
That's a very common problem
Glad you're all sorted now.

Very Slow POP3 access in Mac Mail

Hello All,
I have found that downloading email via POP3 is extremely slow compared with IMAP for MAC Mail.
I received my new imac a few days ago and have being trying to setup my mail account with Mac Mail (I've updated the system software to the latest).
When I tried the Mac mail application with my Gmail account via POP3; it was extremely slow to download emails (10 to 20 seconds for each email to download). Plus when I sent an email to myself, checked that I had received it in the gmail web interface, and then did a 'get mail' in Mac Mail, the email didn't appear!
So I switched to IMAP and found that it downloaded much quicker (several emails a second) and I can send/receive emails with no delays.
While this problem is solved for me, my wife uses yahoo mail, which doesn't support IMAP!
Has anyone found this problem with their pop3 email accounts? I've also found that the pop3 seems to download multiple copies of the same emails.
As you can imagine: this is so frustrating, email is such a basic feature that I would have expected it to work straight out of the box. Anyway, so much for buying a new mac and expecting a smooth experience (unlike the problems I was having with windows)
Does anyone know how to fix this??
Cheers,
Don
P.S. Apologies for the rant! Besides this email issue, I am very impressed with Mac OS X

Try resetting some of the hardware involved (PRAM~NVRAM). See this Apple KB for details, etc.:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
Can't hurt to try, and apparently this has helped others recently.

Mac Mail with Optimum VERY slow

Over the past few days downloading e-mail from Optimum On Line using Mac Mail has become VERY sluggish.
A 4 MB e-mail with an attachment takes over 7 minutes to download!!!
Yesterday it took over 30 minutes to download about 8 e-mails.
Outgoing mail and internet are fine, just a problem with incoming mail.
I contacted Optimum several times the last few days.
We checked the settings, by-passed my Airport Extreme and replaced the modem.
The problem still exists.
Optimum says they checked my signal and everything looks good and they have no idea what the problem is.
It is also happening on my wife's 2 week old iMac as well.
Anyone else experiencing this problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

HI John,
Try a different Airport channel.
Open AirPort Utility, located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder on a computer using Mac OS X.
Select the device you’re setting up, and then click Manual Setup. Enter the base station password if necessary
Click AirPort in the toolbar, and then click Wireless.
Choose a new channel from the Channel pop-up menu.
If that doesn't help, go to /Library/Preferences/System Configuration and move these files to the Trash.
com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
com.applen.nat.plist
com.apple.network.identification.plist
Restart your Mac(s).
Carolyn

Very Strange- Mail changes all dates after two days

I have a very strange behavior:
Apple Mail changes the date-information of incoming and outgoing mails after about two days -
for the first two days it says "today" or "yesterday" after that it changes all dates to one single date (december 12.2009 and some to december 12.2010).
I just put in a new pram battery, so this cannot be the problem.
what the heck is this?

Hi Noe, do you have anything in Rules that is set to happen after 2 days?
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
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 these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup

10.4.10 update and very strange problem with Mac Mini

Dear All,
I have just updated my Mac Mini Intel and I am having a strange problem.
My Mac Mini has problems booting up. Sometimes I get through the login screen as normal but my wallpaper shows and there are no desktop icons, no dock, no top of screen finder menu bar. Some other times I get stuck in the progress bar of the booting up.
I tried to run utilities from install disk and there were no problems detected.
The VERY STRANGE thing is that several times now as I put my fingertip onto the power button laying it on the button but not pressing it yet (because I would like to shut down the system), the system kicks in and becomes unfrozen!!!
Someone in the 123macmini.com forum says that this problem is related to the airport receiver which is near the power button.
What do you think about it???
MacBook and MacMini Mac OS X (10.4.10)

ok, I have found a kind of fix for the problem, although may run a hardware test to check something!.
I unplugged all USB and Firewire devices, I turned off Bluetooth and Airport, reinstalled the 10.4.10 combo update, when it restarted the starting mac osx screen took barely a second or 2 to load (my comment above is becuase from when I first got it on Sunday I noticed it was slow to boot up, also noticed that the screen resoulution I have set does not kick in until I log on, although this may be becuase this mac mini is an intel one). The computer booted up very quickly and I tuend on bluetooth and airport with no issues and plugged all the usb and fireware devices back in. I again turned the airport off and restarted and again it booted up very quickly logged on and swithced the airport back on. I decided to reboot with the sirport on and it got stuck at the end of the os x starting up screen, I waited a few mins switched it off and on again and it booted up fine although slower. I dont mind turning the airport off when I power down as the mac usually stays on anyway. I assume Apple will release a fix for this as a lot of people seem to have the problem so think I will stay put with this for the time being. It was taking a several goes to get to the login screen before but usually got there every few boots.

Search in Mac Mail not working or working very poorly

Just found this on MacRumors
Post this into Terminal to enable indexing. Why it gets turned off I don't know. I think there used to be a button for it in Spotlight prefs which isn't there now. I remember turning it off once as it seemed to interfere with the smoothness of the computer. If you had turned it off when you upgraded to the OS version where the enable indexing button is no longer there, it will stay off.
So to turn it on: enter this into terminal and enter your password.
sudo mdutil -E -i on /
It enables indexing again and fixes the dreadful search function in Mac mail.
Nige

You are confusing Google (or other internet) searches with knowledge. It's possible to find that just about anything is true with the right search.
Further, if you feel that finding someone else who said that Spotlight indexing was turned off means that your Spotlight indexing must be turned off is completely illogical. Was your indexing actually turned off? Well, we'll never know now, if you didn't check it before.
What the command you used does is: 1) erase the old Spotlight index, forcing it to be recreated, and 2) make sure indexing is turned on. Most likely your old index was damaged, so recreating it fixed your problems.

Email very slow to send from Mac Mail

Hello,
Wondering if anyone else has this problem. Whenever I open up Mac Mail, the first emails I try to send via the btinternet server take more than 5 minutes to go, sometimes closer to 10. It doesn't seem to be a problem with Mac Mail itself as messages sent via other servers go immediately. Once the first email eventually goes, subsequent messages send fine. I'm using POP (as I always have) with ssl, port 995. Mac is 10.6.8.
The problem started a few weeks ago when I went abroad for work and used Mail via my hotel wireless system. Not sure if that's just a coincidence.
Any advice most welcome!
Michael
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Ok. It may be that the Mail index files are clogged.
You can check your current 'envelope archive' size by entering this in the Terminal (simply Copy and then Paste the lines into the Terminal window to avoid any typing errors):
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
Then to optimise it (cleans out stuff that has been marked for deletion but not actually deleted, defragments the structure, etc):
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum;
Then check your envelope archive size again to see the results:
ls -lah ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
In terms of size the decrease will not be huge, but you may well notice an increase in speed.

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