Mail.app plugins and dot releases...

I am a beta tester, currently using the 10.6.7 beta on my MacBook as I write small programs for my own personal use in my day to day professional life so need to keep myself up to date to make sure my workflow can carry on uninterrupted (I am a Medic, so making sure I can do my daily work without interruption is VERY important).
Each dot update for OS X Snow Leopard seems to break mail plugins, this is not an isolated or unknown issue and it's not just the betas, the GM updates also break mail plugins. I currently use GrowlMail and WideMail, but not WideMail does not work following the update to 10.6.7.
Any fixes? Normally the old adding plugin UUIDs to the .plist files for each plugin works but I haven't been able to find any info on the plugin UUIDs for 10.6.7.
C'mon Apple, I know the plugins are third party and not your responsibility, but mail.app is and each time we update our plugins stop working. 9 times out of 10, we don't need new plugins, we just need to modify the ones that exist. What happened to it just works? Am I doomed to have to keep repeating this process with each update?
Must be a better way...

yes...and it has now happened again with the release of 10.6.7. My Mail plug-ins have all gone AWOL.
Rather than looking for ways to update the plug-ins, or forcing users to jump through hoops to make them work, shouldn't Apple be incorporating some new features into Mail itself? As an email client, it's way behind where Eudora was 10 years ago.
My main issue with Mail is visibility- it's very easy to miss an important incoming message.
BTW, beta testers are supposed to sign an agreement that they won't tell anyone they are beta testers, or what they're doing.

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I have rebooted twice now but cannot think of anything else to do
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Has anyone else had an issue where Mail.app signatures and rules disappeared?

For unknown reasons, I lost all my Mail.app signatures and Rules on Oct 10, 2012 at about 9:00AM PST.
Anybody else see something like this?
Also, I am getting sandboxd warnings that are Mail preference related....
I am guessing that the preferences access error that the sandboxd is having is related but who knows...
Anybody seen these kinda log messages?
11/8/12 6:08:53.579 PM sandboxd[1589]: ([423]) Mail(423) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
repeated many times per hour.
there also seems to be a problem with the mdworker process .... that is perhaps related to the Mail issue....
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5984]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5983]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5985]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
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Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net sandboxd[5987] ([5983]): mdworker(5983) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd
Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net sandboxd[5987] ([5985]): mdworker(5985) deny mach-lookup com.apple.ls.boxd

I think this is an issue with the phone's proximity sensor (the one that turns the screen off when you hold it up to your ear). It's a bug that seems to occur when you switch to another app (any app) while still on a phone call. You'll notice in Messages that the screen goes dark when you move your thumb over the earpiece/iSight camera, but not when you move your other thumb.
Simplest solution is to force-quit the Messages app (double-click the home button, and swipe up on the app). The problem should resolve itself when you restart Messages.

Mail app deleted and reinstall wont open, says not compatible with OSX

i accindetally deleted my mail app and emptied the trash, when I tried to reinstall from the startup disk, it installs but wont open, saying that the version of mail is not compatible with the version of OSX (10.5.8)

The Combo updater of Leopard 10.5.8 can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/Mac_OS_X_10_5_8_Combo_Update
There is no downloadable version of Mail.app - it comes with the operating system i.e. on your install disks.

Mail.jar is locked when sending a mail using servlet and not releasing

Hi everybody,
The mail.jar is locked in tomcat while sending the first message and not released until the tomcat get restarts.
the problem is not recorded in any logs.
1. Please create a servlet that sends mail
2. Send a mail to any mailid
3. then after the mail is send please try to delete the mail.jar or please deploy the same servlet again with some small changes (for redeploying take place only a few changes is there - please change any strings a little bit)
then try to send mail using this servlet will not send mail becoause it will not redployed correctely.
when i removed Transport.send(msg); from code it works fine. but ??
please help me to recover from this issue. i don't want to turn on tomcat antiJarlocking and antiresourcelocking to true, becaouse this craete many other problems.
please help me to recover from this issue.
Thanks,
Prasad.N

hi friend
I am using advanced version of jdk. i i have used many other jar files like mysqlconnector, logging, commonhttpclient, etc.... the only problem is with mail.jar. that locks are released when its use completed, but the lock holds until tomcat shutdown in mail.jar.
what may be the reason?
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Mail.app From and Subject are blank in list

From time to time I get an email and once it is deleted, the "From" and "Subject" do not display in the list of emails. Its just blank. The "Date Received" shows up as well as if there were any attachments I get the paperclip icon, but no "From" or "Subject". If I open the email I can see the "From" and "Subject" in the email header just fine so I know the data is there, just doesnt show up in the list of emails. If I move the email back to my inbox and the delete it again it usually fixes the problem. Not a big deal but wanted to see if anyone else has had this issue and has a fix.
I am running Mail.app 3.2, and my emailemail is being routed through google apps setup as imap account.
This also happens on my wife's computer, who has an identical email setup as mine, just a different account, which leads me to believe its a mail.app ->imap ->gmail issue.
Dont get me started on the dreaded "All Mail" folder.

I have tried suffering through changing the message encoding back and forth to get messages to appear, but it has reached a level of absurdity that I just can stand anymore.
I view my mail with IMAP from three places; Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and iPhone. If I read a message on any one of the platforms, the remaining Mac (not iPhone) do not display the header information in the message list pane. The iPhone always shows everything fine. And if I download the message first on one of the Macs, it looks fine there, but when that message is downloaded on the other Mac (doesn't matter which was first or second, the pro or macbook pro) the from, to, sent, subject are all invisible on the second machine.
I wrote an automator "watch me" recording to toggle message encoding, but with over 2000 affected email messages, it was taking hours to run, and makes that Mac useless until it is done.
I am less than happy with this situation. Why no bulk message encoding change capability? If you select more than one message the encoding options grey-out.
I've tried rebuilding mailboxes. Using the "defaults write ..." on both Macs. Nothing is working.
Surely someone else is seeing this too?
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Accidentally deleted MobileMe mailbox in Mail.app 4 and now need to recover

Here's what's up. Yesterday I accidentally deleted a mailbox on my MobileMe account. The one that has 30000+ messages in it form the past 3 years...
Realizing how stupid that was I immediately made a copy on a safe place of the local cache on my computer. So now I have a copy of that entire mailbox in .imapmbox format. Today I have tried to find a solution to figure out how to get that email back into Mail.app and I fail to find a way.
I have tried to make a bogus IMAP account and copy the mailbox to it but nothing happens, I have tried to import the email using the import tool in Mail.app but it can't recognize the filetype, I have tried to just copy the entire mailbox into the Mailboxes directory in my Library and then it actually appeared in the "On My Mac"-list as a mailbox but with no messages in it.
I have use emlxtombox converter and that gave me some result but the attachments were omitted.
What to do?

Have you tried to import the mail box? You are trying to copy a back file into the mail app, it will not work as you found out. You should look into a way to backup your files.
try the following:
import mail box
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2442
to restore
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/15171.html

Mail.app AddressBook and CardDav Accounts

Mail.app has "add to address book" function and "create new contact" When I select an email address from the subject of the message, I get "Add to Address Book" when I click the arrow. This contact shows up in the proper location (CardDAV server)
"create new contact, an option activated by selecting contact info from within the body of an email adds the new contact info to "On My Mac"
My "Default" location for new contacts(set in AB) is my network account (CardDAV, OSX Server v10.6.5) but they are still added to the "On My Mac" section.
Applications such as Billings (MarketCircle) will only access the "on my mac" section of address book. Such a headache. I have an employee waiting to add contacts into our system, and this is a MAJOR pain.
Help!

Hello,
Are you saying that in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Account Information, all the accounts are listed? If so, read on, but if not post further info.
Do you know all the info needed to set the accounts up again, if needed? Then Quit Mail, and then in the Finder open Home/Library/Preferences and locate the file named com.apple.mail.plist and drag it out to the Desktop. Relaunch Mail, and it should open as though New, but DECLINE when prompted to import anything, but instead simply set the accounts back up, and Mail should rediscover the existing account folders.
For safety, before doing this, open Home/Library and find the Mail folder, Duplicate it, and drag the resulting copy to the Desktop for temporary backup.
Ernie

Mail.app, movamail and gmail

hi
I use gmail for my main email account, which I access predominantly via mail.app. I've recently started using movamail on my mobile phone to check email periodically and I've realised that this marks the gmail messages as 'downloaded' in some way (although the messages are still marked as unread on gmail), so that when I check for new messages via mail.app, it does not download the messages that I've viewed on my phone.
Is there some way to set mail.app to download all new unread messages? Or is there some setting on gmail or movamail that anyone know about?
any help gratefully received.
thanks
Jamie
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powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Jamie.
This is a Gmail issue that you can do nothing about if you want full POP access to your Gmail account from more than one computer. Gmail POP access does not work as a normal POP mail server should. Here are some of its idiosyncrasies:
1. Messages downloaded by any conventional POP mail client are marked as downloaded at the server (but not as read on the web), and no longer available to either the same or any other POP mail client.
2. To make already downloaded Gmail messages available for POP access again, you must log into your Gmail account with a web browser and re-enable POP downloading for all your messages, which will cause everything (and I mean everything) still there to be downloaded again.
3. Any Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings have absolutely no effect on the messages stored on Gmail’s server. The reason is that, after being downloaded, those messages are no longer available to any mail client, not even to the same client that has just downloaded them, not even for deleting them or checking whether they are still there.
4. Messages created and sent using the web interface will be downloaded by your POP mail client as if they were incoming messages. You can set up a rule in Mail to automatically route those messages to the appropriate Sent mailbox (or to any other mailbox for that matter) if that's what you want. Although this may seem weird, it's good because it allows archiving all messages locally in Mail, regardless of how they were sent -- as long as you don't access the same Gmail account with more than one mail client, that is.
5. Messages created and sent using a POP mail client such as Mail are also treated as if they were incoming messages for POP purposes, just as in 4. What prevents them from being downloaded is that Gmail marks them as already downloaded immediately. They would, however, be downloaded if Gmail settings were changed as described in 2 above.
6. As a particular case of 5, messages sent to yourself will appear in your Inbox on the web, but won’t be available for download by any POP mail client either.

Mail App, gMail and automatically deleting trash

I have the Mail App setup for gmail's IMAP configuration. I have set up the client to store both locally and the server for the TRASH folder. gMail automatically deletes trash in 30 days but I am trying to enhance that feature by allowing MAIL to handle this for me. And as you would have guess, I want less than 7 days too.
So I developed a script that when run removes the trash greater than 3 days. But as soon as I do it the TRASH is added back from the server. It seems to work but doesn't stick.
Here is my script if someone is curious:
tell application "Mail"
delete (every message of mailbox "Trash" of account "Google Mail" whose (date received is less than (current date) - 3 * days))
end tell
Maybe there is a better way to do this. I would appreciate any suggestions or solutions that you guys know about.
Thanks in advance.
-Mickey

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Mail app: copy and past in draft folder kills the mail app every time

Create an email and save it (instead of sending it), the go to the draft folder, copy that draft (command,c) and try to paste it (command v) to create multiple versions of that email and the mail app dies every time. I do this to create multiple copies for mass emails which brings me to problem 2, the Mail app cannot send to multiple email addresses.

This has been really bothering me. I came up with this solution and have tested it. I hope it works for you too.
Create your first e-mail
Save it to your Drafts folder, in the usual way (in whichever account you're going to send from)
Left-drag this e-mail FROM your drafts folder on to your DESKTOP
Double click the icon it makes
When it opens, from the Mail.app menu bar click Message > Copy to > click on the Drafts folder you want your e-mail to be saved in
The e-mail that you double clicked from the desktop should still be open
Now use this key-combination alt-⌘-T and you'll copy another version of the same draft e-mail to your drafts folder
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Once you have as many copies in there as you need, double click each one from your drafts folder, add the recipient address and any customisation and SEND!
This problem appears in quite a few threads on the Apple forum, so I will cross post.
I've not seen this solution anywhere else, or anything similar.
I'm happy for you to share this, once you've tested it, and you can follow on http://twitter.com/philipchapman
GOOD LUCK!

Mail.app signatures and rules gone after update

After updating to OS X 10.9.4 and Mail.app 7.3 all my mail signatures and rules are gone.
If I now recreate those rules and signatures they are gone when I restart.
I have tried repairing permissions in disk utility. It has not restored my lost configurations nor does it allow me to maintain preferences across restarts.
I do not have Time Machine backups, all my data is with Google. The only things on my computer which are not on Google are things like this Mail client configuration.
Has anyone else lost this configuration and been able to restore it?

After updating to OS X 10.9.4 and Mail.app 7.3 all my mail signatures and rules are gone.
If I now recreate those rules and signatures they are gone when I restart.
I have tried repairing permissions in disk utility. It has not restored my lost configurations nor does it allow me to maintain preferences across restarts.
I do not have Time Machine backups, all my data is with Google. The only things on my computer which are not on Google are things like this Mail client configuration.
Has anyone else lost this configuration and been able to restore it?

Mail App freezes and won't force quit.

My internet service keeps going out, and this causes my Mail app to freeze. I usually simply force quit, but it won't do that now, and I can't shut the computer down. I'd rather not hard reboot it.

Kerri
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Mail apps/plugins to help file messages?

With the closure of MobileMe I have finally made the move to Lion and with it I had to finally put Eudora to rest...
There was a great feature in Eudora where you could simply right click on a highlighted word in an email in your Inbox and it would provide you with a list of recommended folders wherre the email could be transferred to, very simple and efficient.
I have come across a few apps for Mail that seem to do the same thing:
Email Filing Assistant
Mail Act-On
Can anyone make any recommendations on these or other filing tools?
Thanks in advance.

I'm not sure they're necessary?
Mail in ML has an "Archive" button which can easily move it to a folder. Or there is the "file" toolbar button which gives you a dropdown of all your mail folders and you can easily file it away.
Personally, I've done away with all folders save one called "Archive." I file EVERYTHING there and then just use Spotlight to find my messages. It's way easier than trying to maintain a complicated filing structure that is rarely sufficiently flexible as to be useful.

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