Mail app behavior

I have a new mac and am setting up the Mail app.
I have thousands of messages on my (external, non Mac) server.
Mail is trying to download ALL my messages, when i only need the last week or so.
Is there any way to have Mail NOT keep trying to download all messages? (only recent)

I have the same problem, only this time it's only like 200+ messages. Any ideas?

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Strange Mail.app behavior

Hi,
i noticed unexpected stuff in my Mail, such as:
- the trash does not appear in the left drawer
- sent messages are not stored in the sent folder
only the inbox seems to work ok
does anyone experienced the same problems?
Yann

I indeed checked there.
The sent prefererence was refereing to another address, hence no sent copy saved.
With regards to the trash, i suddenly reappeared?? maybe i should have reboot after updating the accounts.
Thx
Yann

Mail app behavior on 2G ipod touch

After spending (literally) 1.5 hours with Apple tech support on the phone yesterday, the tech was finally able to get email to work on my iPod again, which it hasn't been since 3.0 upgrade over a month ago. While I'm certainly grateful for the fix, I've noticed there's a new, odd glitch. Prior to the 3.0 upgrade, when mail came in to my ipod, the number of mails coming in showed up on the main Accounts screen, which lists my 5 email accounts. Now, in order to fetch/see/read mail, I have to click each individual account, then its Inbox. One exception: Gmail always grabs mail that shows up on the main Accounts screen, just as it always did in the good ol' 2.2.1 days, when everything worked well. Very odd. Any suggestions so I don't have to be on the phone with Apple support (getting routed from tech to tech until one has the answer) for yet another 1.5 hours? Much appreciated.

Yes, it can I have a 2G ipod Touch too.
It's perfect, you don't have multi-tasking but folders and ibooks, which is pretty cool.
I recommend you get it

Unread messages in IMAP inbox not fetched unless quit & relaunch Mail.app

I posted a similar question re: same Mail.app behavior under 10.5.x , but it remains unresolved and for some reason the post has been archived so I can't follow up there. please see:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2096360&tstart=0
I want to re-ask the question here now that I've updated to 10.6.2 AND migrated to a brand new iMac, and tried some other debugging - yet my problem persists. Hopefully someone here can help
Problem:
- only affects 2 of 3 users on my iMac. On my main (admin) account, Mail.app works just fine.
but, on affected accounts:
- launching Mail retrieves all unread emails from IMAP account, as expected
- if Mail.app is then left running, any new incoming emails arriving on IMAP server are NEVER retrieved by Mail.app, regardless of the Preference setting of how often to check for mail
- clicking on the Get Mail button similarly fails to retrieve any new mail. it's as though Mail.app thinks there is no new mail on server
- meanwhile new mail on IMAP server is confirmed to exist (e.g. checking via webmail access)
- quitting and relaunching Mail.app then finds the waiting email and shows it in the Inbox, but after that no new emails are ever retrieved without quitting and relaunching again
- while stuck in this "there's no new email" state, rebuilding the Inbox causes unread email on IMAP server to be found and loaded to inbox, however once again after that no new email is ever seen until quit and relaunch (or rebuild inbox again)
debugging steps I have tried, none have changed the problem:
- deleting com.apple.mail.plist file
- rebuilding Inbox, as noted above
- moving ~/Library/Mail folder to desktop, then re-importing all mail messages
since the problem has followed the 2 users from my old iMac to new, it seems whatever is causing the problem was transferred by Migration Assistant. But for the life of me I can't find what's different between my working admin user account and the two other accounts. Perhaps there is some other mail-related settings file or folder that's been corrupted somewhere that I'm not aware of?
has anybody else noticed this behavior with Mail.app, or have other debugging suggestions?
thanks in advance

I get the same behavior, but only on one IMAP account and seemingly only after Mail.app has been running for a while. Once it gets in its wonky state, new incoming messages are ignored by Mail.app no matter how many times I tell it to resynchronize... If I restart Mail.app it will pick up new messages for a while, then stops at some point. My iPhone and webmail client have no problem getting the messages.
I have other IMAP accounts that always behave in Mail.app. So, I think something between Mail.app and particular IMAP servers is a little wonky, but not across the board.
<edit> My one misbehaving account is also a dreamhost account.. </edit>
Ian
Message was edited by: Ian Altgilbers

Mail.app and recalcitrant email servers

There's a Mail.app behavior that really bothers me, and I think it should be changed. That is, whenever Mail can't connect to its server for whatever reason, it prompts you for your password, giving you the option to save it in your keychain. This drives me nuts.
One, the vast majority of the time, there's nothing wrong with Mail, it just can't find the server. Two, if I've already saved the password in my keychain, then prepopulate this error message with my (obscured) password, so I can just hit enter: as it is, I don't know whether or not my password in my keychain will get blown away if I don't check that checkbox when I do fill out this unnecessary error dialogue. Three, a better error would just be, "Mail.app cannot connect to the server, would you like to try again later?"
This has always bugged me.

I'm having the same problem, taking off SSL did nothing. Mac Mail still gets nothing, seems to be able to send things fine, but no receipt; the problem started in Feb this year. I have been using Entourage since then and it seems to work fine. I'd rather use Mac Mail.

Adding attachments - Mail.app crash & Safari crash

Trying to add a 4kb text file to email using Mail.app - Mail crashes
Using my webmail access, in Safari, adding same 4kb text file - Safari crashes
Using my work webmail access (which is Exchange or Outlook based), in Safari, adding same 4kb text file - Safari crashes
Nothing has changed except Snow Leopard. The text file was created using TextEdit. No graphics, just text ("rtf" extension). I have nothing in my trash, so cannot securely empty trash.
And, no, just because I have >50 Safari windows open would not explain why Mail.app crashes when trying to add an attachment.
Could this have anything to do with the built-in anti-malware???

Hi Ernie,
I have one POP account (Hotmail) and three other IMAP accounts (one of them is my MobileMe account).
I have tried the following without any improvement in Mail.app behavior:
1) Tried to delete the contents of ~/Library/Mail/Bundles folder (there were no files there).
2) Dragged com.apple.mail.plist from /Users/YourName/Library/Preferences to the desktop.
3) repaired disk permissions (both from HD boot and SL disk boot) of MacintoshHD using Disk Utility. Then restart. This helped a little, but problem persists.
5) changed sharing permissions in the Downloads folder for Everyone from no access to read only.
6) saving email as draft first (before making and attachment) then attaching the file.
7) dragging the ~/Library/Mail/Mac~ folder to the desktop. restart mail...
8) dragging the ~/Library/Mail/ folder and the com.apple.mail.plist file to the desktop. recreate account settings...
None of these attempts have worked. The last two (#7& #8) were suggested in the posts from the links you suggested I try out.
The only thing that has worked so far is creating a new admin user (from System Preferences>Accounts>Add a User Account>). Then logging in to the new account, opening mail, and recreating the same mail accounts that are on the original user account. Mail was able to send emails with attachments. Once I logged back into the original user account, mail would crash when sending an email with an attachment.
I don't know if this helps, but mail will crash even if a file is not attached (if you go to attach a files, but then cancel instead).

Is Mail.app one of the "erratic" behavior apps with a reset system clock?

I am hoping someone can help with a fine detail of mail.app (v2.1.3) behavior.
I had an incident where an iMac sent out 200+ smtp hits a minute and was tossed of the network for presumed zombie spaming.
I think I have actually tracked the problem to an unfortunate conjunction of circumstances that is actually innocent (if still annoying)
Let me set up the story:
1. This is a common use computer, so Mail is not configured (except that it is --I'll get to that in a moment) and
2. Safari will invoke Mail when you click on an "email link"
Mostly everyone just quits mail if they goof and click an email link.
BUT some time ago at least one person invoked Mail and composed a message. This message, naturally, remained in the outbox ever since. That person learned that they can't send email that way, so ever since they just cmd-Q Mail.
BUT Before this person learned, they walked through the mail-config and told mail to try hitting smtp.mac.com:"nonExistantUser".
So that covers the lead-up. Two days ago, mail was invoked via a Safari link, BUT it wasn't quit, it was sent to the background.
Where it undoubtedly tried to send the outbox repeatedly until it was kicked off the network.
Here is what I don't understand:
Under this scenario of a mis-configured .mac address, will mail repeatedly try and fail to smtp at the maximum possible rate?
OR
Is the one other factor I am about to describe responsible?
The one other factor:
The clock battery is dead and there was a power failure at 4am that day.
The system clock reset to 1969.
Of course, nobody reset it.
Is mail.app one of the apps that the finder message warns "may behave erratically"?
(a GROSS simplification) does it have a bit of code like:
1 check time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
check newest-item-in-outbox
if newest-item more recent then last-send-attempt
do send-mail and record time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
and go to 1
else wait X minutes and go to 1
which, if the clock was mis-set to 1969 would always record a last-send-attempt prior to anything in the outbox and trigger a send loop.
Does anyone know if either Mail is tenacious about sending to a bad .mac address, or gets ridiculous under this circumstance for bad-clock-set?
Marc

I am hoping someone can help with a fine detail of mail.app (v2.1.3) behavior.
I had an incident where an iMac sent out 200+ smtp hits a minute and was tossed of the network for presumed zombie spaming.
I think I have actually tracked the problem to an unfortunate conjunction of circumstances that is actually innocent (if still annoying)
Let me set up the story:
1. This is a common use computer, so Mail is not configured (except that it is --I'll get to that in a moment) and
2. Safari will invoke Mail when you click on an "email link"
Mostly everyone just quits mail if they goof and click an email link.
BUT some time ago at least one person invoked Mail and composed a message. This message, naturally, remained in the outbox ever since. That person learned that they can't send email that way, so ever since they just cmd-Q Mail.
BUT Before this person learned, they walked through the mail-config and told mail to try hitting smtp.mac.com:"nonExistantUser".
So that covers the lead-up. Two days ago, mail was invoked via a Safari link, BUT it wasn't quit, it was sent to the background.
Where it undoubtedly tried to send the outbox repeatedly until it was kicked off the network.
Here is what I don't understand:
Under this scenario of a mis-configured .mac address, will mail repeatedly try and fail to smtp at the maximum possible rate?
OR
Is the one other factor I am about to describe responsible?
The one other factor:
The clock battery is dead and there was a power failure at 4am that day.
The system clock reset to 1969.
Of course, nobody reset it.
Is mail.app one of the apps that the finder message warns "may behave erratically"?
(a GROSS simplification) does it have a bit of code like:
1 check time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
check newest-item-in-outbox
if newest-item more recent then last-send-attempt
do send-mail and record time-of-last-send-mail-attempt
and go to 1
else wait X minutes and go to 1
which, if the clock was mis-set to 1969 would always record a last-send-attempt prior to anything in the outbox and trigger a send loop.
Does anyone know if either Mail is tenacious about sending to a bad .mac address, or gets ridiculous under this circumstance for bad-clock-set?
Marc

TS4083 Is that behavior has changed along ios8 ? Or still you need to launch mail app to update unread emails ?

Is that behavior has changed along ios8 ? Or still you need to launch mail app to update unread emails ?

I've found out that this is by design.
Email Application offer push-notification, but read action is not populated to the Cloud.
So Mail app needed to be opened manually each time you want to refresh it status ...
That is not a good information...
As far as I remember, google had that work quite long ago properly (of course on iOS and inside Mail.app)

Ios 5 mail app delete behavior

I have gmail set up as an exchange account in the native mail app on a iphone 4s with the latest ios 5.
what is the default behavior of deleting email with the mail app? is it configurable?
I ask since on my iphone 3gs (w/ ios 5) it removes the mail from the inbox and leaves it in all mail. But for my wife's 4s it is seemingly moving it to the trash.
thanks,
-g

ok im back and i have figured out the problem and solution.
as im so used to high lighting the emails individually, i've been doing the same in trash and this causes a number to slowly build next to an empty trash folder. if i select delete all then all hte emails and the number disappear. problem solved.
yay

Mail app strange behavior, default and all mailboxes not accessible

hello community! i have had this problem from months now and maybe years...a couple of days ago i bought my 5S and i thought that this should have pushed me to fix this and not just work around it...
so here's the deal MAIL APP, iPhone 5S 7.0.3
i have mail app setup with 5 gmail accounts, which receive and send email just fine, the problem comes when i need to check emails...here's what happens.
i open the mail app
SOMETIMES i see on the bottom "downloading 250 email" (50 last emails for 5 accounts).
IF im fast enough...i would be able to enter in my default account or "all mailboxes", if i wait like a couple of seconds, boom! all mailboxes and default account become unaccessibe (GREY, like in the screenshot)...and they stay like this
when i manage to access the "all mailboxes", i see a bunch of NO SENDER emails that appear and disappear after a few seconds, all dated 1.1.01 and the email conversations with more than 1 email, i would be able to tap it, it would get evidenced but it wouldn't open the email conversation, this happens sometimes, sometimes it opens...
i have tried searching this issue, but nothing seemed as this, only found some random use with the no sender or duplicate emails, not my case...no sender emails appear and go away in manner of 2 seconds.
workoround: Gmail app works just fine, but i would love to use the native mail app
screenshot attached, i hope someone can help here. I ave covered the rest of the email accounts, but i assure you that they are black and not grey like the top ones.

and so again happened, was sending an email from my default account and boom!!
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Latest Mail.app strange behavior

Hi,
My Mac recently downloaded and upgraded my system to 10.10.1, and ever since Mail.app has really been annoying when I make it active from the Dock. Prior to this release, I could select from among several mail account inboxes and that selection would stick across hides and opens. Now however, Mail seems to think it's best to open with the selector bar highlighting "Inbox", which then displays all current inbox emails.
Is there some way to defeat this problem? I really don't want to have every inbox's contents displayed when I open Mail. I go through them at different times according to the account.
Mail Version 8.1 (1993)
Many thanks,
-Tod

and so again happened, was sending an email from my default account and boom!!
however, the email was sent, then this happened. this time the emails are from the 70's, probably someone that decided to pull my leg seein me in the future...lol

Mail.app prefs. fail to change location of Downloads folder.

I recently migrated my mail from Eudora to Mail.app (Mac Pro, OS 10.6.8). I usedthe Mail.app Preferences to change the location of the Downloads (i.e. attachments) folder from the default location (Users>Library>Mail Downloads) to the subfolder in the OS Downloads folder that I used in Eudora. Despite this my attachments still end up in the default location. Help please!
As an aside I would be running straight back to Eudora were it not for the death sentence pronounced by the absence of Rosetta in Lion. Here are some comments that I recently posted to the TidBits newsletter where there is an excellent article by Adam Engst on making the changeover to Mail.app:
The major surprise for me was how really crude the Mail.app experience seems after 14 years of using Eudora. The way Mail handles mailboxes has been a source of major frustration. With Eudora I found it convenient to create separate Eudora Folders for my three accounts, each accessible via an alias of the respective settings file in the dock. That way I could locate an item that I need much faster than when the mailboxes (and their subfolders) for all three accounts are crammed into a single sidebar - especially as mailbox folders enclosing subfolders will not open with a double click, precise clicking on the triangle is required. The ability to access mailboxes from the Eudora Mailbox menu - drilling down through successive subfolders, if required - is vastly superior. Similarly Mail's procedure for moving messages and/or creating rules is really primitive compared to Eudora's facility to create destination mailboxes as part of a single seamless process. Given that development of Eudora ground to a halt in 2006 one could be forgiven for expecting a lot better from Apple's in-house e-mail client in 2011.

Mike,
Where in the Sidebar to the Mail window do you see any Sent mailboxes? Is there one beneath the Inbox when viewing at home? Check and report the settings at Mail Preferences/Accounts/Mailbox Behaviors, please. If you have to do this when at home, I understand. There is a way to instruct Mail to use a particular folder for a particular purpose that probably needs to be done on the home computer, but I would like to know those preference settings before proceeding with that.
Ernie

Gmail ... IMAP ... Mac Mail.app ... Mavericks ... SOLUTION -1

hi all,
hopefully this will give you enuff info to figure out what to do (if anything), but i urge you to read thru the links below to see if you are experiencing the same issues or not, & if so, what to do about them.
THE BACKGROUND INFO:
i've been using the Mac's Mail.app pretty exclusively since its inception, and with Gmail's IMAP option since mid-2009. the settings have always stayed & worked well...
• on Gmail.com > Settings > Forwarding & POP/IMAP >
    - IMAP Enabled
    - Auto-Expunge Off
    - Move Deleted Messages to the Trash
    - Folder Size Not Limited
• also on Gmail.com > Settings > Labels >
    - Only the Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Spam, & Trash System Labels CHECKED to "Show in IMAP"
• then in the Mail.app > Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors >
    - i had everything CHECKED & all the dropdown options set to "One Month Old"
      --note: a year or so ago, i had to UNcheck the option to Store Drafts on server due to a hideous multiplication of draft messages showing up in the Trash
• also in Mail.app > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced >
    - the IMAP Path Prefix was always "[Gmail]" to allow folders to show properly in the Mail.app
• and lastly in Mail.app >
    - made sure the Sent, Drafts, Spam, & Trash folders/labels were properly mapped via the Mailbox menu > "Use This Mailbox For" option
...and i've always kept 'local' mailbox folders for archiving old emails in the "On My Mac" section in addition to keeping more current emails for reference in the "Gmail" section.
THE INITIAL PROBLEM:
after upgrading my Mac to Mavericks OS 10.9, i started noticing that any email i would delete or move from my inbox kept re-appearing in my inbox after changing views (like going to another mailbox then back to the inbox).
of course this drove my OCD crazy, & thus began the research. i've read a LOT about this issue from official sources to user discussions and have pieced together a procedure that seems to be working (for the most part) for me.
THE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
a lot of people, tek/industry people, & blogs are pointing to these webpages as good summaries of issues & fixes (yes, there are SO many more, but i personally found these to be the most helpful in my quest)...
          http://tidbits.com/article/14219
          http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/10/mavericks-issues-and-fixes/?viewall=true
          http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1222267
          http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/making-gmail-and-os-x-mavericks-mail-play -well-together
THE DISCLAIMER:
of course, if you aren't greatly affected by the Mail/Gmail wonkiness, then it might be worth waiting another week or two (or 3 or 4...) & keep your eyes on further reports from these sites (links above or others you may like better) in case Apple &/or Google pushes an update to remedy the situation. likewise, if you do make these changes, it would still be a good idea (imho) to keep up'to'date in case such pushes do come out & affect these changes too. ugh ;-)
THE OUTCOME:
the below process, for me, has been SUCCESSFUL in every aspect except one...
THE LAST PROBLEM:
whenever i move a message from the gmail inbox (or any other gmail imap folder/label) to a local folder in the "On My Mac" section, it moves it just fine, but then it keeps a copy in the gmail "All Mail" folder/label, when i would want it deleted from gmail.
unlike when i "delete" a message, where gmail appropriately moves that message to the trash box, in this situation it simply strips the message of "any" label, and thusly it stays in the All Mail. so if anybody can amend this with a fix for that, we should be all set :-)
but aside from that last issue, the below procedure has brought back my Mail.app program to use Gmail as "I" believe it normally should work, and has always worked pre-Mavericks.
THE PROCEDURE (assuming all your settings are set like mine were as listed above):
go to gmail.com in Safari (or other web browser) > Log in > Settings > Labels > and check "Show in IMAP" for the "All Mail" system label (which was previously a no-no, but now a yes-yes).
also on that same page, you will need to UNcheck the "Show in IMAP" option for Drafts. and then slide over and for BOTH the Drafts & Spam labels, click the "show if unread" options.
then go to each & every one of your custom "Labels" (you know them as Mailbox Folders). they will all start with "[Gmail]/foldername". click on each and remove the "[Gmail]/" leaving ONLY your custom folder name.
once done, click on your Inbox to get you out of the settings area.
now you will need to go thru ALL of your folders/labels (i know... big ugh!) to fix the labels attached to all the emails inside them ;-)
click a folder/label to reveal all the emails inside it.
click the checkbox in the header row of buttons/options that will cause all emails on that page to be selected/checked.
then, IF you have more emails than what fits on that page (in other words, if you have more than one page of emails in this folder as indicated by the "1-###" and page arrow buttons at the top right), then you will see a new small row that sits above the list of emails that says "All ### conversations on this page are selected. Select all ### conversations in "Folder/Label Name" - you WILL NEED TO CLICK this text link!!!
once you have, the sentence will change to "All ### conversations in "FolderName" are selected" - do NOT click the "Clear selection" link next to that.
next, click on the "Label As..." button in the header row of button/options - the icon looks like a price tag of sorts.
then in the resulting popup box that lists all your folders/labels, you will want to make sure ALL checkboxes are UNchecked EXCEPT the single folder/label that these emails are in. note: some of them may or may not have dashes instead of checkmarks in the boxes - you will need to click it to check it and then click it again to get it UNchecked & UNdashed.
after you've got only the one label checked that should be checked, then click the APPLY word at the bottom of that little popup box. note: if all the selected emails are labled correctly, then you won't see the "Apply" option & you can simply move on to the next folder.
if you get a dialog confirmation box pop up asking if you are sure you want to continue... click OK.
then WAIT! this may take a while depending on how many emails it's affecting and how fast/reliable your internet speed/connection is. when you see the "Loading..." notification at the very top of the page change to "All conversations have been removed from (and it lists them all)", then you can move on & do that same procedure (steps 5-13) to fix another folder/label.
WHEN DONE WITH ALL THAT, you can exit your browser.
now go to the Mail.app > Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > and remove the "[Gmail]" text from the "IMAP Path Prefix" field.
then go to the Mail.app > Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors tab and if the Store Drafts on Server option is checked, UNcheck it.
then close the Mail.app Preferences window to get the option to SAVE that change!
now go to the Mailbox Menu > Synchronize > Gmail, in case it hasn't started doing that on its own.
then open the Window Menu > Activity, so you can see when it's done synchronizing. this may take a while if you've got a lot of mail. according to some, it took a day! so, just kick back & leave it alone till then.
THE END FOR NOW:
hopefully this helps other folks that were setup like me & want to keep it working that way. and yeah, again, if anybody knows how to fix the last problem described above, please let us know.
.peace.:.jason.

hi Dean Suhr,
i just went back & re-read my posts... i find no where that i said anything about dragging emails into the ALL MAIL folder. i mentioned the issues with dragging messages into "any other folder that i've created" from either the INBOX or "any other folder that i've created". it copies instead of moves the message. but ONLY Mac Mail does this. the iOS Mail app does NOT do this - it moves as it should move.
as far as what you said "who cares what Gmail says the labels are"... well... I do :-)
there are occasions where i need to utilize the web browser gmail interface, and i want it to be correctly synced.
i don't think it's unreasonable to want that, as that's how it's been for YEARS, till now, AND that's how it still is with iOS 7.
besides, what happens if i get a different device/computer and need to add the same account - i imagine it will not sync up correctly if gmail has labels on messages that it shouldn't.
fortunately for me, i don't have quite as many messages & accounts as you; it only takes aprox 30 minutes for mail to sync up after i started over with it.
.peace.:.jason.

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A few days ago I searched for a sent email with what I knew to be a unique word I had used and it didn't get found. I looked at the Sent section (the one with the paper airplane) in the sidebar and noticed that there hadn't been any additions for two days even though I know I had sent email in that period.
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I downloaded the Thunderbird email client, and mail sent from there with my AOL name shows up in Mail.app Sent.
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Looks like AOK has fessed up to the problem:
"I have never had a problem with my aol mail until Dec 18. I can no longer see my sent emails. I am using a MAC and accessing AOL through Mac. Very frustrating. What is going on?
Official
AOLMailMat Answered:
This is an issue we are aware of; we are working on a solution that should be released next week. I have added your username to my list, and will follow up as soon as I have more information."
http://aolanswers.com/questions/aolmail_folders_862528158153087/issue_aware_working_solution350707381124346

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