Mail 7.3 quirk

MBP mid 2012, OSX 10.9.4, Mail 7.3
When I delete an email from my inbox Mail selects the next message and removes the unread icon prior to me opening the message.
Is there a way not have this happen? I often find that as I go back through my emails there are some that I have missed because of this issue.
Thanks, Brendan

Brendan Hayes wrote:
Mail selects the next message and removes the unread icon prior to me opening the message.
When mail "selects the next message", that actually opens the message for you. So, naturally, the unread icon is deleted.
If you elect not to read the message right now, you can reinstate the unread icon for the selected message. From Mail's menu, do Message > Mark > As Unread.

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Mail - irritating display quirk

I've just moved to Mail from Entourage v.X for Mac. No major problems so far, but an annoying display quirk which I'm hoping someone can help me to resolve.
I am using Mail to send and receive via two POP accounts, hence I like to have the information displayed in Mail as follows:
In the In mailbox, I like the columns to be in the order:
Attachment - From - Subject - Date Received - To
Whereas in the Sent mailbox, I like the columns to be in the order:
Attachment - To - Subject - Date Sent - From
The trouble is, when I put the columns in the order I want them in the Sent mailbox, they rearrange themselves in the In mailbox as well.
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Is there any way round this?
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I've been going through printer issues since updating to Snow Leopard, and am just now getting a chance to address other issues. This one is driving me nuts and didn't seem to find anyone else posting about it (or just didn't get the right search terms!). But when I have an email up, and I try to drag the sender's email address up to the Search window in Mail (to look for other emails from the same address), since the update to SL am no longer able to do that. It will not drop into the Search window.
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Outlook Quirk With E-Mail Submission of XML and/or PDF

Hello all.
I am running into an annoying little Outlook quirk when testing e-mail submissions of PDF forms. When the submit button is clicked, Outlook will open a new message window as it should, but the
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Missing messages and other recent Mail.app quirks

HI,
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I rebuilt my inbox's last night, and:
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I can survive with issues 2 - 5 above if necessary, but I'd really like to deal with the missing message problem.
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Guy,
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Ernie

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Cannot send mail after upgrading to Lion

Can anyone help.
I upgraded to OS X Lion, and since then I cannot send mail from any of my accounts.
Nothing wrong with them. I can access, receive and send with othe Mail programs, as well as from my iPhone and iPad.
I have deleted, and reconfigured my accounts, and no luck.

I am having the exact same problem as Steve Kennedy a few posts back.
"When I press send I watch the fan for a couple of minutes before seeing the error message that invites me to select another server or try later. The outgoing mail server that shows up as being unusable is MobileMe (MobileMe). When I select smtp.me.com, I can send. Sometimes I can even send a couple of messages before the problem returns.
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I am getting REAL tired of the Lion quirks. <y desktop rearranges itself when it feels like it. Nothing consistent or repeatable. The folders just all appear on the right side and disregard how I have them organized on the desktop. I have set all of the recommended settings to no avail. A mind of it's own.
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PowerBook G4 17" 1.5GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3)

Open "In" in the mailboxes drawer by selecting the black triangle beside it....
Thanks for the further elucidation. Wish I'd known all this (which is not explained anywhere in Mail's online Help, at least not that I could find) before I went through the tedium of manually sorting through all the messages. And I still don't understand why a search of the Inbox by the to-be-deleted email addresses failed to find some 20 messages which appeared in those addresses' individual boxes when I expanded the Inbox to show individual accounts.
Many other email clients utilize a single large database file which is not dependent on individual account and associated mailbox filing. ... Entourage uses a single large database file and I don't prefer using an email client that stores all data in a single file.
I certainly agree, and in fact was horrified to learn that Outlook Express does the same, which has resulted in disasters for many users. "All your eggs in one basket," anyone? Funny how folks are always pointing out to me that Apple software, despite glaring flaws, is better than Micro$oft. Since I got my first Mac in 1988, I've never used any Micro$oftware -- or any other computer. "Better than Microsoft" is not the same as "as good as it could be with a little effort," and nowhere near the "insanely great" of the early Macintosh years.
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There is one more thing you can do which is mark your question as answered.
Thanks again for taking the time to explain all this, and I'll mark the question "answered" now. And get back to work.
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forte-users-digest Wednesday, 2 September 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1041
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ArrayField and state of child
Widget States
From: Luca Gioppo <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 15:00:23 +0200
Subject: ArrayField and state of child
I got this problem:
I want the array fieild to show the elementa of some columns depending on a
boolean attribute of the mapped class:
if true col 6 and 7 (datafield) will be invisible an col 5 visible and vice
versa.
Col 5 is a scrolllist so I need to populate each time the widget with
different data.
Everything functions well (htanks to the help found on the list) but I see
a strange quirk:
When I set to true two consecutive rows and then I scroll the arrayfield
the widget of col 6 and 7 that were invisible
pop up (only on one of the row), they are just a dirty paint as they cannot
be selected (but show the hidden data)
Any suggestion on this.
I use R3.f
Here is a code fragment of the method
The array field has 5 rows
Method popProv just populate the scrolllist with the array of listelement
passed as parameter.
mw1 : fieldWidget;
mw2 : fieldWidget;
mw3 : fieldWidget;
myRow : integer = 1;
for i in <arfProc>.TopRow to <arfProc>.TopRow + 4 do
mw1 = <arfProc>.BodyGrid.GetChildInCell(myRow ,5);
mw2 = <arfProc>.BodyGrid.GetChildInCell(myRow ,6);
mw3 = <arfProc>.BodyGrid.GetChildInCell(myRow ,7);
if arfProc.codFilter then
mw1.State = FS_UPDATE;
popProv(PI_sclProv = ScrollList(mw1),
PI_arrPr = arfProc[i].arrProv);
mw2.State = FS_INVISIBLE;
mw3.State = FS_INVISIBLE;
else
mw1.State = FS_INVISIBLE;
mw2.State = FS_UPDATE;
mw3.State = FS_UPDATE;
end if;
myRow = myRow + 1;
end for;
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From: Geoff Puterbaugh <[email protected]>
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Subject: Widget States
Dave,
FS_VIEW etc. aren't text values, they're integer constants which
you can check out in DisplayProject. The one you want looks to
be FS_VIEWONLY, which is equal to 2.
All my best,
Geoff
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Hello
I'm a newbie labwindows,
so i'm having the same error i have two pannel when i press paue still the same erro here is a preview of the code and a pic of the panel
int CVICALLBACK PauseCB (int panel, int control, int event,
 void *callbackData, int eventData1, int eventData2)
 switch (event)
 case EVENT_COMMIT:
 PauseFlag = TRUE;
 /*Timer Disabled When User Pauses*/
 SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle,TABPANEL_TIMER,ATTR_ENABLED,0);
 SetPanelAttribute(TABPANEL_TIMER, ATTR_ENABLED,0);
 TimerEnabled = FALSE;
 /*Timer Disabled When User Pauses*/
 /*Disable Use of Read/Write when timer is "paused"*/
 SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle, TABPANEL_gpibwrt, ATTR_DIMMED,1);
 SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle, TABPANEL_gpibwrt, ATTR_DIMMED,1);
 /*Disable Use of Read/Write when timer is "paused"*/
 SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle, TABPANEL_CONTINUE, ATTR_DIMMED, 0);
 SetCtrlAttribute (panelHandle, TABPANEL_PAUSE, ATTR_DIMMED, 1);
 break;
 case EVENT_RIGHT_CLICK:
 break;
 return 0;
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Spotlight SOMETIMES searches mail, but mail.app shows no results

Hi folks,
I've been anxiously waiting for the Mavericks release, hoping it would, once-and-for-all, fix this aggravating issue I've had with spotlight mail searches.
I recently carried out a full wipe-and-reinstall on my iMac, by creating a bootable clone of my main desktop, then booting from that drive and using disk utility to erase my main hard drive, and selecting that drive in the Mavericks installer. This means that I had a 100% pristine installation of Mavericks - no old preferences, no old settings, no weird filesystem permissions issues, and yet this problem STILL persists.
I have three different Gmail email accounts, all connected via IMAP, and all saving the emails locally for offline viewing (although I don't believe this is an option anymore in Mavericks). When I first added these accounts to Mail.app, I was unable to search them either in Spotlight or in Mail.app.
I have since undergone multiple attempts to fix it, and occasionally during the process Spotlight has worked(although it shows multiple historical versions of sent mails due to auto-save), but searching from within Mail.app remained broken no matter what I did.
These are the things I've tried:
running 'mdimport -r /Library/Spotlight/Mail.mdimporter'
adding and removing ~/Library/Mail to the spotlight 'do not index these files' privacy setting
adding and removing the entire hard drive to the 'do not index' list
using 'mdutil -E' to erase and rebuild the index
manually removing the Envelope Index files from ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData, then re-launching mail to force it to rebuild the index
using the menus within mail to rebuild the mailboxes
This has been broken for several versions of Mac OS, and it's obscene that there hasn't been any progress on the issue. Please tell me that somebody has some new ideas that I haven't tried yet - I've been struggling with this headache literally for YEARS, and it has really soured me on an otherwise excellent Apple experience.

I finally figured it out!
The trick was that I had some old versions of Mail.app in an archived folder, and these versions were screwing up spotlight, even though they haven't been run in years. Removing the old versions, then updating the spotlight index and rebuilding the Envelope Index files seems to have fixed my search.
For others who, like me, have spent YEARS of constantly re-indexing things to fix it - there is an odd quirk in the way OS X associates files, where it seeks out Applications anywhere on your computer (including external hard drives), and the presence of those Applications can mess things up even if you aren't running them. This seems to be rarely discussed in proposed solutions, but it was absolutely the fix for me.

Mail does not release attachments to be deleted!

In Tiger, there was no trouble deleting a file which was attached to an email.
In Leopard, i could never delete a file until the message it was attached to had been sent.
In Snow Leopard, i can't delete any file that has ever been attached to an email without first 'Quitting' the Mail application, which i'm used to doing very rarely.
*A known bug? Some way around this?*

*This is driving me slowly insane!*
After mailing and trashing a whole pile of images, it can take ages to securely empty trash.
I must send negative feedback about a newly noticed quirk/bug in Apple Mail about once a week.
If i could find an affordable alternative to Apple Mail with the features i need, i'd dump this stupid app!
It's got Smart Mailbox problems, this problem, search problems, wonky changing style behaviors, problems with the cursor springing off to odd locations when doing much editing of styled mail, and many more quirks; +far more than i notice in any other Apple app i use.+
I've long ago established that none of this junk can be traced to my install (redone that) or any add-ons, that I've got on the system.
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Apple Mail Pop Server Configuration

Hi all,
It's not often I post on here but here we go. I have been using Macs ever since the Lisa Electronic Office and have always been perplexed by one strange quirk of the Apple Mail account configuration process. This quirk is now becoming extremely troublesome.
I use BT/Yahoo (I'm not talking about the famous password rejection problem). One main account and several sub-accounts which, for all intents and purposes, can be considered as separate accounts.
Now the problem arises because, while each has a separate email address, they all use the same pop server settings. ie. mail.btinternet.com.
Mail will not allow me to use two accounts with the same pop settings. I can set up and verify the account (doesn't stay on-line because SSL is set and the port is wrong) but when I come make a change and save it I get the message:
Invalid Directory
The account path /Users/fredbloggs/Library/Mail/V2/[email protected]@mail.btinternet.com is already being used by the account “Another One”
Obviously I've changed the account names. Another One is one of my other accounts. I've got one working by using pop.btinternet.com but I've run out of working aliases. I should be able to set up 10 sub accounts and access them all with Apple Mail. IMAP works OK but that is something I don't wish to use for a number of reasons.
Anybody else come across this?
I can do all this with Entourage (horrible) and Outlook which I do not intend to buy. Why does Apple make life so difficult sometimes?

OK Folks,
To save confusion and to all those people who think I am using the same email address for everything, here they are.
     British Telecomm Residential
          [email protected]          (USAAF 381st Bomb Group Heavy)
          [email protected]     (My company)
          [email protected]          (Master Account for everything else)
     British Telecomm Business
          [email protected]          BT Business E-Mail - I don't use
     Others I have are:
          [email protected]
          [email protected]
          [email protected]
[email protected] currently exists as an IMAP account which works but something I would rather not have.
As you can see, they are all separate and distinct.
As I said before, all hese work just fine with Entourage (nasty and a dead product) and Outlook (something I'm not prepared to buy when the Apple offering should do it all for me and integrates really nicely with iCal, Address Book, Notes etc.
Thank you everybody for trying to help and thanks Defcom but, as you thought, that article is really old hat now.
I am now going to open a large bottle and sit in that darkened room.
If I now get flooded with spam, I know where it's come from.
Goodnight, Good Morning or G'Day depending on where you're from..
Jim Tennet,
White Wings Computer Services

E-Mail Signature Grey and Single Line after PR1.2 ...

Hi
After having updated my N900 to PR1.2, I now find that when I reply to, or create a new message in the standard e-mail client , my automatic signature is inserted in grey instead of black, and all linefeeds are left out so the whole thing appears in one line instead of four which is how I have it.
Sure, I can edit it and re-insert the linefeeds and make it all black, but this is clearly not the point. It worked fine prior to 1.2 and should continue to work fine after the upgrade.
One quirk of this 'bug' is that, once I've opened a new message (with the incorrect signature), if I change the originating e-mail address (I have more than one e-mail account) by tapping on my e-mail address at the top and selecing a different one, the signature 'repairs' itself and the linefeeds re-appear so the signature then looks fine except that it's still in grey.
Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks.
Solved!
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garbuckle wrote:
Hi
After having updated my N900 to PR1.2, I now find that when I reply to, or create a new message in the standard e-mail client , my automatic signature is inserted in grey instead of black, and all linefeeds are left out so the whole thing appears in one line instead of four which is how I have it.
Sure, I can edit it and re-insert the linefeeds and make it all black, but this is clearly not the point. It worked fine prior to 1.2 and should continue to work fine after the upgrade.
One quirk of this 'bug' is that, once I've opened a new message (with the incorrect signature), if I change the originating e-mail address (I have more than one e-mail account) by tapping on my e-mail address at the top and selecing a different one, the signature 'repairs' itself and the linefeeds re-appear so the signature then looks fine except that it's still in grey.
Does anyone else have this problem? Does anyone have a fix?
Thanks.
for some reason on the new pr 1.2 version, the signiture is requiring html to have the breaks.
if your signiture used to look like:
Joe Blow
ABC Corp.
[email protected]
888-555-1212
Sent from my Nokia n900
then is now looks like this:
Joe BlowABC [email protected] Sent from my Nokia n900
to fix this, write it this way:
Joe Blow 
ABC Corp. 
[email protected] 
888-821-0937 
 
Sent from my Nokia n900.
it will still show up as a light grey/brown, but it will now be formated correctly.

Mail 7.3 quirk

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