Mail Moves Messages

Hi -
To make a long story short - my house burnt down and I bought a new MacBook Pro running Lion. On my old iMac I used the mail application and so I naturally use it on my new MacBook Pro. I can send and receive message easily but whenever I reply or forward to a message Mail moves it out of the Inbox and to the sent folder. So if I want to go back to the message I have to go into the sent folder. How do I keep them in the inbox and not have them automatically move. On my iMac this never happened (I was running Lion on it too.) Any help is appreciated!
Spencer

I know this doesn't help, but wanted to let you know that this has also been happening on my accounts too. The weird thing is that is it is only happening on one alias of a .Mac mail account, but not on my main POP account. Also, I don't know if the settings are changed by MobileMe, but it's happening in Entourage as well as Mail for the same alias of the .Mac account and on different machines.
Anyone else had this too?

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Cheers,
Owen

Hi Owen
rules are applied 1: when mail is received, 2: (optionally) when the rule is first set up, and 3: if messages are selected & the 'apply rules' menu command chosen.
to apply rules to messages you’ve already received, select the messages in the viewer window and then choose Message > Apply Rules.
A smart mailbox will evaluate constantly, although I appreciate that's not the same thing.

Unable to move message, the message could not be moved to the mail box trash

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Did you have Hotmail set-up with Android prior? I did, and if you did too, you have the same problem, and this is how to solve it.
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can't delete mail on phone, message says, Unable to move message The message could not be moved to the mailbox trash.

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http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=612773

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0 Message 0x00007fff80498828 -[MFAssertionHandler _handleFailureWithPreamble:description:arguments:] + 137
1 Message 0x00007fff8049878d -[MFAssertionHandler handleFailureInMethod:object:file:lineNumber:description:] + 220
2 Message 0x00007fff803de753 -[EWSCopyItemsResponseOperation executeOperation] + 519
3 Message 0x00007fff804a6a57 -[MonitoredOperation main] + 229
4 Foundation 0x00007fff8614411a -[__NSOperationInternal start] + 673
5 Foundation 0x00007fff86143dd8 ___startOperations_block_invoke2 + 99
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7 libSystem.B.dylib 0x00007fff83f3d1e9 dispatch_workerthread2 + 231
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Hi
I just added a new folder in Mail, but cannot move a message from my inbox (IMAP) into it. I can move messages into other, older folders, but not into any folders I created today. This is happening with both local and IMAP folders created today.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
D

Okay, here's what I find:
My home directory: drwxr-xr-x+ owner=me
~/Library: drwx------+ owner=me
~/Library/Mail: drwx------ owner=me
Continue to the local mailboxes:
~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes: drwx------ owner=me
~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/(top-most level): drwx------ owner=me
~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/(top-most)/(next level): drwx------ owner=me
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~/Library/Mail/(imap account): drwx------ owner=me
~/Library/Mail/(imap account)/INBOX: drwx------ owner=me
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Hi Peter,
since its now January 2010, I sure hope you have resolved this issue! I had the same problem after I had to restore my iphone G3. Anyway, played around a bit and was able to fix by changing the "deleted mailbox" behavior...to use the trash on the server vs on "my iphone"
here it is:
settings/mail,contacts/accounts (choose yours)/advanced/deleted mailbox/
then click the trash bin on the server.
this should also work for your sent mail behavior.
hope this helps!

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I have 4 messages in my SENT mail folder on my iPhone 3GS (v3.1.2) that I simply can't get rid of. When I try and delete them (either one at a time or as a group), I get the message: "Unable to Move Message(s): The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash." I've tried turning the mail account on and off, hard resetting the iPhone etc. with no success.
I've seen a number of forum threads about this problem but with no solutions. Just checking that by some stroke of good luck, somebody has figured out how to resolve this issue.
Other messages (those before and since the 4 mentioned here) have been no problem. I can delete them without a problem.
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If anybody has a suggestion, it would be greatly appreciated.
Happy Holidays and thank you!
Peter

Hi Peter,
since its now January 2010, I sure hope you have resolved this issue! I had the same problem after I had to restore my iphone G3. Anyway, played around a bit and was able to fix by changing the "deleted mailbox" behavior...to use the trash on the server vs on "my iphone"
here it is:
settings/mail,contacts/accounts (choose yours)/advanced/deleted mailbox/
then click the trash bin on the server.
this should also work for your sent mail behavior.
hope this helps!

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My "Mail" software looks to have become corrupted, as I can't move messages around, save "drafts", receive or send messages. The problem occurred after my Mac crashed and was re-started. Any ideas on what can I do to fix this? Any good suggestions appreciated!

The Mail program is probably not what is corrupted. That would be extremely difficult because it is not written back to disk. The problem is likely in your user data.
You could check that by logging into a different account (make one if you don't) and set up Mail in that account. If it works fine in that account then you have a problem in your user data.
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ls -ale ~/Library/Mail
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When I try to delete mail message it tells me that I cannot move message to folder called "null"

When I try to delete mail message it tells me that I cannot move message to folder called "null"
So I cannot delete my messages.
Help

From the Mail menu bar, select
Mail ▹ Preferences... ▹ Accounts
Select one of your IMAP accounts in the list on the left, then open the Mailbox Behaviors tab, Uncheck the box marked
Store deleted messages on the server
Do the same in your other IMAP accounts. Save the changes when prompted.

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Oberus,
We're very sorry for the troubles you're having getting your messages to your customers. We're happy to help. We will escalate this to the proper group for review. Thanks for your patience as we investigate and escalate this issue. ~Ian
Ian_VZ
Verizon Support
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NOW-Yahoo Mail won't move messages to folders. Help, please?

Original iPhone with 2.0 software . . .
When I try to move a message (from the inbox, for example) into one of my yahoo Mail folders, I get this message:_"Unable to Move Message."_
Is this happening to you? Is there a solution??
Thank you for your help.
Allan

Have you tried deleting the Yahoo account and readding it? Was it working earlier(with the update)? I know Yahoo has been very up and down with various things so possibly there might be a server related problem if it just started.
You could also possibly try to reset the network settings and then try to move the messages.
Zenatrul

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Bad/Corrupt Rules can also cause migration failures so you might check that as well.
Depending on the # of mailboxes you have to work with another option would be to take an offline copy of the database (EDB/STM) and use a 3rd party utility like Lucid8's DigiScope to open the database offline. Once you have access to the data you
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