Mail stuck in OUTGOING MESSAGES on OS X version 10.9.4

I am running OS X Version 10.9.4 and there are three mails stuck in my outgoing mail, It does not show in the outbox when i access it. It only shows when I am sending mail it says: Outgoing Messages - Sending mail 90 of 93, and the three always stays there. I need those mails, how can I access them and resend them?

Back up all data. Rebuild the mailbox. Try to send the messages again.

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Hello Bruce,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
The following support article is an awesome resource for troubleshooting any issues with sending and receiving email messages:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Take care,
Alex H.

How to limit mail size of outgoing messages

I would like to limit the sizr out outgoing messages in SUN JES. Is there any attribute I can modify so that each user have same limit size other than change it individually for each user?

You can handle the limit of any mail at MTA-level with the blocklimit, noblocklimit, sourceblocklimit directives in the channel definitions (in imta.cnf)
Give a look at the MTA configuration details at
http://docs.sun.com/source/819-0106/mta_config.html
I think that you may want to try something like sourceblocklimit directive.
Marco

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Hi again,
I have a new problem that has cropped up. Our company is multi-location. 8 of our locations are able to relay outgoing mail through our mail server with no problems whatsoever. Since upgrading clamav, amavisd-new and spamassassin (thanks topicdesk.com!), I have one remote client for whom every outgoing message is flagged as Spam by spamassassin and bounced. Here is the output from our mail server:
Content type: Spam
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First upstream SMTP client IP address: [xx.xxx.xxx.153]
adsl-xx-xxx-xxx-153.dsl.lgtpmi.sbcglobal.net
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Return-Path: <[email protected]>
From: Lansing <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Subject: test
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The message WAS NOT relayed to:
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Spam detection software, running on the system "server.stores", has
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has been attached to this so you can view it (if it isn't spam) or label
similar future email. If you have any questions, see
[email protected] for details.
Content preview: My Company of Lansing [email protected]
(Deleted to protect privacy)
Content analysis details: (8.2 points, 4.0 required)
pts rule name description
3.2 FHHELO_EQ_D_D_DD Helo is d-d-d-d
-1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1%
[score: 0.0000]
1.0 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to internal network by host with
dynamic-looking rDNS
0.2 HELODYNAMICDHCP Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (DHCP)
2.8 HELODYNAMICHCC Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (HCC)
1.0 TONO_BRKTSDYNIP TONO_BRKTSDYNIP
2.0 HELODYNAMICIPADDR Relay HELO'd using suspicious hostname (IP addr
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The only major difference in this location is that it's running a new Intel iMac with Snow Leopard. All the other clients are PPC's with Leopard.

As it turns out, the problem was with the router configuration. Instead of having the computer on a private network behind the router, the computer was given the public IP address. I'm not sure how this relates to how the message and its header are interpreted by spamassassin, but reconfiguring the network and using NAT to allow incoming traffic to the computer seems to have resolved the problem.
I would love for someone who knows about this stuff to respond, although technically my problem is resolved.
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Mail 1.2 - Outgoing messages are not sent, just pile up in outbox.

Hi -
My Dad is in Maryland and has an iMac with Mail 1.2 (he won't let me upgrade him!). His outoing smtp keeps defaulting to an old .mac account of mine, rather than to his earthlink account. Then they all just pile up in his outbox.
When I try to walk him through it from here (California, w/ mac 10.4.x), it goes like this:
Me: Dad, go to Mail>Preferences>Accounts>Outgoing SMTP>little arrows drop-down menu>Remove.
Dad: There is no Remove or Edit there.
So I can't tell him how to remove the erroneous SMTP because I can't see his screen and have tried everything I can think of but no luck.
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First, have him go to Mail>Preferences>Accounts
Then have him locate his account and your account on the left.
Have him click and drag the .mac account below his account in the list.
This will solve the default setting of mail going out from your account when he clicks on the Inbox.
Removing the smtp server for .mac may not even work for him, especially if the account is active.
Instead click on "advanced" and there should be a check box for "enable this account", deselect the box. This disables the account without deleting any mail.

Mail stuck on one message and unexpectedly quits when trying to delete it

My mail was working fine until a few hours ago, no gliches at all. I checked the new mail and when attempting to delete the first new message, mail unexpectedly quit. I reopened it and tried to select another message and it quit again. Basically, I can't do anything except view this one email. Anything else causes mail to quit. I tried going accessing my mail online and deleting the messages but that has not worked. It appears the messages are stuck in my inbox.
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If I’ve understood it correctly, all you have to do is find a way to select the message and delete it without causing Mail to display its contents. Proceed as follows:
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2. Go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled -- having this setting enabled is a really bad idea for spam-related security reasons anyway.
If you have the preview pane visible, Mail may still crash again as soon as you select the troublesome message. There are at least three ways to select the message so that you can delete it without Mail displaying the message contents:
3a. You can hide the preview pane by dragging the horizontal separator bar between the message list and the preview pane to the bottom of the window, or just double-click within the separator bar, so that the preview pane disappears and only the message list is visible. This would prevent Mail from trying to load the message when it is selected in the message list. To make the preview pane visible again, drag the horizontal separator bar up from the bottom of the window, or just double-click on it again.
3b. If you select the message with the mouse, the message is displayed in the preview pane when the mouse button is released, not when it’s pressed. This allows you to drag the message to the Trash or to any other mailbox without Mail trying to display its contents.
3c. Ctrl-clicking on a message causes a contextual menu to appear, from which you can usually (but not always, don’t ask me why) choose Delete or Move To, without the contents of the message being displayed in the preview pane.

How to limit mail size of outgoing messages per domain/user

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i want to limit the size of a mail a user can send. For inbound mail there are attributes in the directory service: mailDomainMsgMaxBlocks and mailMsgMaxBlocks.
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I've read the messaging server admin guide but all i could find out is that i could limit the size of outgoing mail via a channel.
For me this solution ist not granular enough. I want to set the outgoing mail size limit per user. Furthermore i don't know the impact of configuring 200+ channels for enforcing individual outgoing mail size limits per hosted domain.
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Hi jay_plesset,
thanks a lot for your clarifications.
Why would you need 200 channels? That sounds like a
very strange setup. Setting outbound max size per
user sounds like a very unusual demand, too.Let me explain: I got several departments who control their email settings in the messaging server via a webapp. So they can add, delete and modify users. They can manage mailing lists and so on. It's really a cool tool :-) I want this thing to be as granular as an own mailserver for the department would be. So it would be cool when the webapp writes an attribute like maxMsgBlocks in the DS and the thing is done.
I don't understand why you guys could do the stuff for inbound but not for outbound. Is there a technical reason or is it just because it seems strange? :-)
If you REALLY need something like that, 200 channels
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system memory.I think that's not the way i want to go.
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sending. You'd need to enforce smtp authentication,
so you know who your messages are coming from, first,
and then you could proceed from there. This is not a
trivial setup.Sounds interesting. Any documentation hints for custom channels?
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Hello Bruce,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
The following support article is an awesome resource for troubleshooting any issues with sending and receiving email messages:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Take care,
Alex H.

Mail Stuck on "Sorting Messages"

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OK ... I am just a bit irritated. I have encountered a few problems lately with Mail where it acts as if the smtp server I use won't accept the connection and/or password (that is 100% correct). Sometimes the problem goes away on its own. But that was just what led to my primary problem today is.
I put together a rather lengthy email - took about 30 minutes to compose, that was of some importance. I click send...
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I'm none too happy. Is this a new Microsoft-like "feature"? I know, I'm being sarcastic - but I am a bit frustrated. I switched to Apple Mail from MS Entourage because I was trying to walk away from MS software. It seems that the problems I have been having with Mail (and also Safari) have cropped up after the last few security updates and application updates.

Hi Michael,
I certainly think Mail is a strange bird myself, but most don't have this problem. I only use it to help out here, I use these two...
Eudora...
http://www.eudora.com/download/
Thunderbird...
http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1377124
If you have any queries post back.

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Try this:
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this is not something that belongs in osx server sections since its about your mail client.
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