Mail trying to load messages and seemingly in endless loop

Recently, after getting a new logic board, new memory and reinstalling 10.4.11, mail has been trying to download emails from my server and just gives a "fetching message..." in the activity viewer for an extended period of time (I let it go for 10 minutes to make sure). BTW, this happened after I had been receiving emails just fine for 3 or 4 days.
In the activity viewer window, the "status bars" that normally move are stagnate. It also mentions trying to route the first message from two of my accounts. I don't have any rules set up (other than the default news from apple one) and junk mail enabled. I am using DSL, so it's not a slow download and I searched through my ISP host and could get to the emails, but it would be much more convenient if I could use Mail!
If I stop the downloading of these emails, Mail just sits and in the activity viewer I get "STOPPING :...." for each one but nothing happens. I have reverted to just Force Quitting Mail to move on, but something is obviously not working right.
Any thoughts on what's happening or where to go from here?

Mulder,
Did 1, 2, and 3 as after each one, still the same problem. After 3, I started Mail without doing anything else, including any updating of software. In console got this long list:
2008-09-23 22:59:48.187 SystemUIServer[968] lang is:en
2008-09-23 23:00:20.820 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character b at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.840 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x2' at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x100' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.886 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character e at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character Q at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.916 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character e at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.927 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character l at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.937 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character a at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.947 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'Conversion of data failed. The file is not UTF-8, or in the encoding specified in XML header if XML.'
2008-09-23 23:00:20.956 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character a at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.966 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character D at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.977 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x10' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.987 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character V at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:20.996 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/InMailbox.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x3' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.008 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/DraftsMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character a at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.010 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/DraftsMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character $ at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.014 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/DraftsMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x1' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.017 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/DraftsMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character e at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.020 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/DraftsMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'Conversion of data failed. The file is not UTF-8, or in the encoding specified in XML header if XML.'
2008-09-23 23:00:21.026 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/OutMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character i at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.028 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/OutMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'Conversion of data failed. The file is not UTF-8, or in the encoding specified in XML header if XML.'
2008-09-23 23:00:21.030 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/OutMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character p at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.037 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/TrashMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'Conversion of data failed. The file is not UTF-8, or in the encoding specified in XML header if XML.'
2008-09-23 23:00:21.039 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/TrashMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character . at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.041 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/TrashMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character e at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.051 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/junkmail.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x18' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.053 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/junkmail.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character B at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected ';' or '=' after key at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.062 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/junkMailFlag.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character > at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x3e' at line 1
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x0' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.066 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/junkMailFlag.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'Conversion of data failed. The file is not UTF-8, or in the encoding specified in XML header if XML.'
2008-09-23 23:00:21.071 Mail[992] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/NormalMailboxLarge.tiff
The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.
Error in createMutableDictionaryValue:1012 for property 'Email' 'XML parser error:
Unexpected character , at line 1
Old-style plist parser error:
Unexpected character '0x2c' at line 1
2008-09-23 23:00:21.091 Mail[992] * -[NSCFString objectForKey:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x5c99bf0]
2008-09-23 23:00:21.091 Mail[992] Exception raised during monitored invocation of openSynchronouslyUpdatingMetadata:, exception: * -[NSCFString objectForKey:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x5c99bf0]
Sep 23 23:00:22 kevin-and-tiffins-imac-g5 mdimportserver[961]: * -[NSCFString objectForKey:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x621580]
Sep 23 23:00:22 kevin-and-tiffins-imac-g5 mdimportserver[961]: -[FileProcessor importMetadataFromFileAtPath:] Got exception * -[NSCFString objectForKey:]: selector not recognized [self = 0x621580] for path '/Users/KnT/Library/Mail/[email protected]@mail.fuhrmanmusic.com/D eleted Messages.mbox/Messages/587.emlx'
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Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.
*http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/how-to-start-windows-in-safe-mode/
Do a malware check with several malware scanning programs on the Windows computer.
Please scan with all programs because each program detects different malware.
All these programs have free versions.
Make sure that you update each program to get the latest version of their databases before doing a scan.
*Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware: http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php
*AdwCleaner: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ http://www.softpedia.com/get/Antivirus/Removal-Tools/AdwCleaner.shtml
*SuperAntispyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/
*Microsoft Safety Scanner: http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx
*Windows Defender: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/using-defender
*Spybot Search & Destroy: http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html
*Kasperky Free Security Scan: http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan
You can also do a check for a rootkit infection with TDSSKiller.
*Anti-rootkit utility TDSSKiller: http://support.kaspersky.com/5350?el=88446
See also:
*"Spyware on Windows": http://kb.mozillazine.org/Popups_not_blocked
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-caused-malware

Mail picking up old messages and marking as new

I hope someone can help - I have this really annoying problem and I have no idea how to stop it from happening.
Every day my mammal picks up a handful of old emails from a few weeks previous and marks them as new messages. Every time this happens I need to scroll through my inbox to find the offending messages and delete them again. Sometimes they are just junk messages that I have previously deleted and sometimes they are actual emails that I have read and want to keep in my inbox. My email comes from hotmail. this problem started some time ago before I updated to Yosemite and it is still happening even after the update. I've tried looking into mail settings to see if I can find a solution but had no luck. It's driving me nuts!
KRB

Try rebuilding the mailbox. This can take awhile if you have a lot of mail.
Rebuild mailbox
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I'm trying to download Yosemite on my iMac. It's been stuck at the halfway point for an hour. I don't want to turn it off. But looks like its stuck.
Any thoughts?

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I tried to load some pictures recently from an SD card and now I can't get iPhoto to open. I just keep getting the spinning wheel of dashes. Not the rainbow one. I've tried to force quit but that doesn't work and neither does turning it off and back on. Any ideas?

Hi Christopher,
Please try the following Kb article and suggest if you were able to resolve the query or not.
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Cheers,
Kartikay Sharma

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Trying to load an app on iPad but it is stuck at waiting stage when trying to install

See if any of these suggestions help.
Reboot the iPad by holding down on the sleep and home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons.
Make sure that you do not have a stalled download in iTunes - a song or podcast .... if you have a download in there that did not finish, complete that one first. Only one thing can download at a time on the iPad so that could be what is causing the problem.
If that doesn't work - sign out of your account, restart the iPad and then sign in again.
Settings>iTunes & App Store>Apple ID. Tap your ID and sign out. Restart the iPad by holding down on the sleep button until the red slider appears and then slide to shut off. To power up hold the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and let go of the button.
Go back to Settings>iTunes & App Store>Sign in and then try to update again. Tap one waiting icon only if necessary to start the download stream.
You can also try deleting the waiting icons - tap and hold down on an icon until it wiggles - the tap the X on the icon to delete it. Then try to download again.
You can try resetting all settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset All Settings. You will have to enter all of your device settings again.... All of the settings in the settings app will have to be re-entered.
If all else fails, download the updates or the apps in iTunes on your computer and then sync the content to your iPad.

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Hello,
I am having an issue. I am trying to load a fillable PDF from Internet Explorer but every time I hit the load button my computer goes into and endless loop with downloading into a temp folder then back to IE and then again to downloading to the temp folder. This is not with just 1 file but multiple.

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