Mail behavior

I've been experiencing some rather weird Mail behavior for the longest with the following issues, so i'm trying to finally resolve.
1)Drafts - i'm noticing that composed messages that autosave as drafts during composition remain in the drafts folder even after I send them, (unless I manually go into the drafts folder and delete them). I've noticed this across all 3 accounts i have configured in Mail (2 Gmail, one GoDaddy, all IMAP)
2) Sent items with larger attachments - i've noticed this mostly on my GoDaddy accounts, sent emails that contain larger attachments will kick back to me as Recovered Items, despite them being successfully sent to email recipients. Additionally these emails rarely copy over to my sent items folder, however if I send an email with no attachment those have no problem copying over.
I always dismissed this as just some of the limitations of the Mail app, but perhaps there are some ways to fix these issues.
Any suggestions?

just double checking. still experiencing these issues, and they are quite annoying.

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I've already set the Junk filtering to not filter emails from recipients who are in my Address Book.

Either you’ve messed with the Preferences > Junk Mail > Advanced settings, or those settings have become corrupt, or you have one or more rules that have a bearing on this.
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2. Choose either Training or Automatic mode (it doesn’t matter) and leave the other options checked. Click Advanced to see how the junk filter rule is defined now if you want, but don’t touch anything there.
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So Mail doesn’t really crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly). Rather, it freezes (i.e. becomes unresponsive), right?
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Try disabling Search .Mac For Certificates in Keychain Access > Preferences if it’s enabled. Take a look at the following articles for an explanation of why this could be the problem:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/07/18/apple-mail-phones-home-too/
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/mailapp_doesnt_phone_homeeither/

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Brian,
Port 110, is the port for an Incoming POP3 Server, and not any SMTP used as Outgoing Server. Please check server settings under the Outgoing Server section of Mail Preferences/Accounts/Account Information, again. Please report the type of Authentication, used, if any. Is this ISP cable, or DSL? It could be useful to know the name of this ISP.
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At the bottom of the mail list there should be a bar with a wee dot in the middle of it. You should be able to drag it upwards to reveal the preview pane.
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Hi folks,
I have been glued to this forum for weeks now, and I am reading so many strange issues with Mail.
Mail for me has been playing nicely lately, but when I send mail with attachments, for me this is sheet music as .tiff files, I get strange behavior from mail. It dose send the mail, but upon my next restart, I get the mail with attachments in the DRAFTS folder, then mail takes an age to find (?) the mail, and I have to force quit, as it is "not responding". I send via my .mac account.
The only way I have found around this is to sign in to my .mac account on line, delete the mail in question. Though this works it seem counter productive, and seems to deem using the mail app a waste of time.
Is there way to stop this behavior from Mail app?, this is driving me mad, and I am going to crawl up in the fetal position soon and find my 'happy place" if it happens one more time . I may have to seek therapy on account of my mail client, and start a whole 2 part show on Opra, “Apple Mail drove me mad, and now I’m in Recovery”
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NoteFarm
(I have tried rebuilding mail boxes)

Thank you Ernie,
You are very kind to respond. You are very kind to respond, and I thank you for your help.
I am not sure how to go about setting up .mac as a pop, but I have been using it as a regular .mac for a long time (years?) with out problem until recently.
I realized after being forced so many times to go the web sign in to my .mac account, to delete mail manually that the only folder that had mail in it was my "sent" mail” folder, as a last ditch effort, I just decided to delete that folder, I bit the bullet and pressed delete as it seemed that, that was the folder causing problems, deleted it, all the mail I had replied to from my father before he passed away, gone, I was so beat up by this I just had to do anything.
For the time being it seems as long as I store nothing on my .mac account (at $99 a year) mail app. behaves. Hmmmmm I am very, very disappointed in Apple over this. These are words I thought I would never say. But honesty compels me. If I wanted to work this hard I would use a cheap Windows machine, but no I spend the extra $$$ and this is what it gets me. Shame on you Apple, shame on you,
If there were a web site that was complaining about me as a musician (like these message boards do about apple mail), I would be e-mailing everyone an apology, begging forgiveness and trying to help, not expecting other people to fix my lack of care. I dont expect every one to like what I play, but it should at least be in tune, and work, and this program, just is not in tune or working.
Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
NoteFarm

Mail behavior 10.9

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For the past few months, the first time each day I use Mail to reply to or forward a message, is takes about 15 to 30 seconds of twirling colorwheel before the message window pops up. I get a similar delay the first time I try to attach a file.
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Any help anyone can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Is your profile accurate? Does this happen on a PowerPC-based Mac?
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Odd Mail behavior

After deleting a message, a few minutes later it reaappears as new mail but with no alert sound.
Also when deleting certain messeges from trash, they reappear instantly and I have to delete again.
This is happening with my .Mac account accessed via Mail 2.0.7.
Not sure if it happens with my POP account yet.
Thanks.

Tom,
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Hello, do you & her share the same computer account?
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I never use Apple Mail, I only use Gmail through my browser.
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OS X ships with Xprotect support enabled, and this can and has been used to lock down components (such as the Java JVM plug-in) when something nasty is loose.
The OS X Server variant ships with anti-malware tools — ClamAV — that can scan mail and related storage, and which can mitigate malware for OS X as well as for other platforms.
But anti-malware and anti-virus add-ons? In general, not needed IMO.
Recent attacks have targeted Flash and Java, and these are easily mitigated.
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The cure can be a problem, too: anti-malware tools work by doing the same sorts of things as the malware wants to do, insinuating itself into low-level corners of the OS, but attempting to detect and block the malware. The act of connecting into the OS can potentially cause problems for the "host" OS, just as malware can corrupt and crash a system.

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OK, this just started yesterday:
I can enter ONE (1) addressee for a new email message. If I want to add another name (Boba...), this is what I get:
BBoBobBobbBobbaBobbaBobba
If I touch the delete key, I just get another "Bobba." If I highlight the whole mess and delete, it leaves me with the first 5 letters: BBoBO which I cannot delete.
I am stuck sending one email at a time (when I want multiple addressees).
I have reset permissions and restarted computer. I have deleted all addresses from Address book and restored them from 3 days ago.
How can I shut off this auto-type feature that produces this garbage--also, how can I delete this stuff?
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