Messages Stuck in Mail App Outbox

I have an iphone 4S with IOS 6.1.3. I use the Gmail app with no issues to send and receive messages. However, when I attempt to send mail attachments directly from the phone's voice memos or camera roll functions, the messages get stuck in the Mail app outbox. I receive no warning that there is an error when sending these messages, they just never send and I find them sitting in the outbox. I've tried resending from the outbox with no luck.
For camera roll pictures, I've gotten around the problem by composing a message in Gmail and then browse and attach the photos to the e-mail. I don't think there is a similar solution for voice memos. The only options within voice memos is to either directly e-mail or text the memos (but e-mail isn't working). I don't see a way to save the memo and attach them like pictures as I can do in Gmail.
I would love to be able to actually send emails directly from voice memo and/or camera roll, but I'm also open to work-arounds.

I've been having similar issues with my iPhone 5 and the latest iOS version. I read somewhere else about an issue with having Exchange and Imap in use with Mail being an issue. I had both, but had my Exchange connection to Gmail off. I was still having the issue.
The solution that worked was to delete my Exchange Gmail account. Now, emails are being sent immediately. If you have Exchange and Imap Gmail accounts on your iPhone, pick one and delete the other. Good luck.

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II am the sole Mac user in a 100+ person company. (I run the company so IT tolerates me.) After receiving many complaints about unpredictable display of FW: and RE: messages sent from mail.app (leopard and snow leopard), I gave up and converted to Outlook '11. Hated it. Airplane pilots have fewer buttons, ribbons, etc., on their control panels. So, I'm back to Mail.app and newly determined to solve, or at least understand, the issue.
Posting what I've discovered here in the hope someone can shed light on it or, better yet, fix it.
What I discovered is that a message with embedded graphics in it (e.g., a company logo .gif embedded in a signature) generated in mail.app will display very differently in different email clients and settings.
In iphone (iOS 4) the message renders perfectly. No issue.
In Mail.app received via exchange, the message also appears to render perfectly. No issue.
However, it's a different story in Outlook '08 for Windows and '11 for Mac) BUT ALSO in Mail on the iPad. AND also if the message is viewed from the sent items folder in the very application (Mail.app) in which it was created. Here's what happens.
Text before the embedded image is rendered correctly. But after that, everything is displayed as an attachment. The embedded image is displayed an attachment. So too is any text that follows it. (ATT0001.htm). If there are multiple embedded images with text in between them, you'll get a string of attachments (image001.gif, ATT0001.htm, image002.gif, ATT0002.htm, etc.)
(Note that I have already done everything I know to make things clean and windows friendly. Mail.app is set to windows friendly attachments. Iconizer is installed. Mail.app is also set to send re: and fw: messages at the same level to avoid formatting issues different levels might create. )
I'm not a coder, but I did take a look at the source code. What I noticed is that mail.app treats a message with embedded graphics very differently than one without. A message with just text (even when sent as HTML format) is just text. A message with embedded graphics has the first bit (before the first graphic) as text, then the first graphic, then, the next bit of text is an HTML file, and so on. Apparently, mail on the iphone can recognize this and render properly. Not so others. The question is why Mail turns text bits into HTML files this way?
Now, the good news is, having isolated the problem, I've solved most of it by simply eliminating embedded graphics (including a logo in my signature) from my emails. Still, I often forward or re: to long strings that do include these graphics. Not so good.
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IMO, if you want to send magazines, then e-mail isn't the vehicle. Better to create PDF files and send them as attachments. This problem you're running into has to do with poorly followed standards in all those e-mail clients and attempting to send magazines as messages. Stick to plain text and there aren't any issues. Just my

TS3899 I have an iphone5 and the reply, forward and writing a message from the mail app doesn't work. I can check my mail but can't reply to it. What's going on?

I have an iphone5 and the reply, forward and writing a message from the mail app doesn't work. I can check my mail but can't reply to it. What's going on?

Try a reset: hold down the home button along with the sleep/wake button until you see the apple, then let go. (No data loss)

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Many apps, including the Photos app, allow many options for sharing or social networking. When I select to send by the Mail app the message never gets sent as I would expect, but remains in the Mail Outbox until I remember to drill down to the Outbox and send it manually.
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Is this normal?
Is there a 'Setting' that causes this?
Why doesn't the message just go?
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I've been having similar issues with my iPhone 5 and the latest iOS version. I read somewhere else about an issue with having Exchange and Imap in use with Mail being an issue. I had both, but had my Exchange connection to Gmail off. I was still having the issue.
The solution that worked was to delete my Exchange Gmail account. Now, emails are being sent immediately. If you have Exchange and Imap Gmail accounts on your iPhone, pick one and delete the other. Good luck.

Links to web page in any mail message will cause Mail app to hang, and won't open Safari.

Repeatable problem on iPhone or iPad.
Any link to a web page will cause Mail to lock up and become unresponsive, and won't open the web page in Safari.
The only way out of this is to back out to the home screen, double-click on the home button, then select the Mail app icon, holding it until I can "close" it. I can then relaunch Mail and look at any message I want just like normal. But if select any link, whether a text link or a picture in an email, the whole thing happens again.
Occurs on both my iPhone 5 and my iPad both running iOS 6.0.1.
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You ran a defective third-party "utility" that purports to "clean up" "junk" files. What it really does is to corrupt the operating system and many applications.
The first thing you need to do is remove that software according to the developer's instructions. Never install it, or anything like it, again. Then see below.
If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data, then reinstall the OS.* You don't need to erase the startup volume, and you won't need the backup unless something goes wrong. If the system was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you may need the Apple ID and password you used.
If you use FileVault 2, then before running the Installer you must launch Disk Utility and select the icon of the FileVault startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) It will be nested below another icon with the same name. Click the Unlock button in the toolbar and enter your login password when prompted. Then quit Disk Utility to be returned to the main screen.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. The same goes for Xcode.
*The linked support article refers to OS X 10.9 ("Mavericks"), but the procedure is the same for OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later.

I had the "WhatsApp" hack on my email, changed all my passwords (gmail, apple ID, etc.) but now I can't send messages through my mail app on my laptop even though it's signed in to my gmail account and is receiving messages.. How do I send msgs again

I was hacked by the "whats app" email and had changed all my passwords (gmail, apple ID, etc), my mail app on my laptop is signed in to my gmail as per usual and is receiving mail but not sending mail. How do I get it to send mail again? Also is it ok to have the same gmail account used (as my mail and applied ID) after the hack or should I completely reset everything? Ie. get a new email address…So frustrated and confused, please help!!

It's normal for your phone number to be grayed out in Settings>Messages>Send & Receive under "You can be reached by iMessage at" on your phone because it can't be changed. If you phone number is listed there it should also be listed further down under "Start new conversations from". If you tap your number there to select it, your messages will be identified to others as coming from your phone number, not your email address.
Is you phone number listed there on your phone?

Messages reappear in mail.app inbox when they are moved into folders on my mac (10.7 Lion)

Have an extremely frustrating problem with OSX 10.7's mail.app. Specifically, using an imap setup w/AOL I file messages into appropriate folders in the "On My Mac" section. And the messages move into the folders, but they apparently aren't getting deleted from the IMAP server because they'll reappear in my inbox as unread. This is quite annoying, as I receive hundreds of emails per day and am accountable for responding to them, which means I cannot ignore them the second time they appear on the off-chance that they happen to be a reply in the same thread or a follow-up question.
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I use the Mail app for OS X Mavericks and have been inundated with spam lately. I understand that spam email campaigns can confirm that you have opened their mail (and subsequently continue to send you mail) by image tracking so I would like to disable images from showing for all except my contacts. I don't recall if it was with Mail or another email client I previously used, but I vaguely remember message images not showing by default and requiring you to click a button at the top of the message in order to show the images within it. If possible, I would like to be able to do this for non-contacts.
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If there is no way to do this, can someone suggest an alternative email client for Mac OS that does allow this? I am willing to change if this feature does not exist within the Mail app.
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Personally, I've never heard of spammers tracking by a contact's image. I think you might be confusing this with the images in the message.
Spammers can do two things to track you.
1) Send an email with a read receipt. Mail doesn't support read receipts
2) Send an email with an embedded image (sometimes called a bug or beacon). When the email is opened, the email software loads the image from the remote server by sending it an HTTP request.
If a message matches the junk mail criteria, then a bar will appear near the top of the message. External images in the message will automatically be disabled, so that spam authors won’t be able to track if you’ve opened the message. To load the images, click the “Load Images” button in the bar, or to mark the message as not junk, select “Not Junk.”
Mail > Preferences > Viewing >Uncheck Display remote images in HTML messages.
Enable Junk filtering in Mail Preferences. Check "sender in in contacts, sender in in previous recipients**, message is addressed using full name.
Use SpamSieve, third party product to filter spam, http://c-command.com/spamsieve/
Keep contacts in your Address Book.
Mark messages as junk to help train the junk filter.
Don't open a message you think is spam. You should be able to see enough of a message in the preview to know if it's spam.
** Open Previous Recipients under Window in the Menu bar. Remove any addresses from spammers.

How to see "sent messages" mailbox within "received" messages mailbox into Mail app

I'm a brand new user of Ipad and when I'm using Mail I would like to be able to see all my mailboxes and my sent messages box and even the bin box within each others. I saw it on the Ipad of a friend, but on mine I've got a column called "all mailboxes" where I can see all my mailboxes and all my mail account and nothing more. if I click on one account then it offers me a new column with sent messages and bin. Can I change that? I havn't found how...
Thank you by advance

Hi Decosensei,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Congratulations on the purchase of your iPad!
In the Mail app on your iPad - you do have to click on the Account (ie. iCloud, Gmail, etc.) in order to see the Sent, Junk, Drafts and any subfolders you've created.
I've included the iPad User Guide and our main support page for the iPad to get you started.
manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf
Apple - Support - iPad
Enjoy!
- Judy

Apple script for Message box when Mail app Compose Window Opens

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I'm trying to make mail app remind me to choose the right emaill address to send from since I have several email addresses. Is there a way I can make or write an apple script for a message box to pop up whenever mail app's compose window opens up.
I can do for the case when I actally click the compose button when I'm on mail app by using UI scripting. But when it comes to hyperlinks which opens up the compose window, it fails.
I just want a script to see whether the compose window is open and if open pop up a message box.
Thanks
Best regards
Zam Shabeer Thahir

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By the way, the problem happens with the account of MS Exchange service, I don't know if this is the cause of the problem.
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Incorrect message count in Mail.app inbox (not unread message count)

In Mail.app my inbox is empty but I have a current count of about 4.3 billion messages (varies some). Does anyone know a fix for this? I have 3 IMAP accounts set up as well as several RSS feeds. This is not a major problem since the new message count is usually correct (except for some minor issues updating the GMail count) but is a nuisance still.

It is not the answer to "billions", but click on View and see which is offered: Hide Deleted Messages or Show Deleted Messages, and whether shown in gray or black type?
Perhaps you should use Rebuild on each individual Inbox. If you do, be aware that all messages seem to disappear, before returning, so do not panic and do anything until Rebuild is finished.
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Messages disappear from mail app?

since i changed my comp and automaticly transfer from my old one, a power book,every day i open the mail app i find every time less messages inbox and sent...
i found some messages in librery they have a number and emlx(?)
does anybody can help me i don't want to loose all the info i have in my mail!

In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post, to let me see the names of the files and folders present at the root level of the Mail folder.
Before actually posting that information, you may edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you wish to keep private, e.g. you may replace any real username with "username" to hide your real email address if you wish; similarly, you may disguise any domain names you don't want to be revealed. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Finally, locate the account folders within ~/Library/Mail/ -- their name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. For each account folder, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Let me know which are the mailboxes that have the problem.
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Getting message reference in Mail.app

This seems like it should be easy but I can't figure it out:
In Apple's Mail app version 2.x I want to create a script to reply to a message, using various text items parsed from its contents in the reply. The target message to be parsed is not in Mail's preview pane (which isn't visible) but in its own window (opened by double-clicking its line item in the main Message Viewer window).
I want to refer to this as a message (so I can use the message class properties in my script), not as a window. The problem is, there seems to be no object container class for a message in its own window, nor a way to reference the content of a window in Mail. The closest I can get is the "message viewer" object, but that contains all the messages in the list.
Surely there is some direct way to reference a message in its own window as a message?!?
So far, the best I can do is assume the Message Viewer contains the target message in its message list, get all the subject strings of the list, & compare them to the title of the stand-alone window (which is titled with the message's subject) looking for a match. This is clumsy & not foolproof, since the Message Viewer may be set to some other mailbox after the message is opened in its own window, there may be more than one Message Viewer open, etc.
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Again, thanks to all for your suggestions of clever workarounds.
Cyclosaurus mentioned that AS is sometimes a pain; kel that finding workarounds is usually a convoluted process when an app's AS implementation is incomplete, as Apple's often are. <rant> For me, the real pain is that from the beginning, Apple's support for AS has always seemed frustratingly uneven. Thus, we get flashy innovations like Applescript Studio, a greatly enhanced Script Editor, & such, but we still get apps with incomplete, inconsistent AS behavior, & worst of all, a primary AS language guide that hasn't been updated since 1998 or so.
I will confess that I love playing with AS for its own sake. Often, my need for a script's output is less a motivator for writing it than the satisfaction of writing a compact, elegant script that hides complex processes behind simple, English-like statements that make the script's function (almost) as easy to understand by human as by silicon brains. Simply put, a script's esthetics are as important to me as is its practicality.
Because of this, these workarounds, as clever & necessary as they may be, are always going to bother me. GUI Scripting, in Apple's own words, is supposed to be for "applications that either do not have AppleScript support or are only partially scriptable." Instead, it has become a substitute for full AS support in many of Apple's own apps, & I fear that scripters won't demand better from Apple because of it. </rant>
OK, I had to get that off my chest so you folks will know where I'm coming from, but the remainder of my comments will be directed to the specifics of the suggestions:
I know that in theory I can save & restore the clipboard's original contents if I must use it in a script. However, I'm not sure I know a bulletproof way to do this. Each app puts data of various types into the clipboard, but not all apps know how to handle all data types, or at least they didn't in earlier versions of the OS. (That's one reason I've always tried to avoid using it.) What used to happen is an app would grab only data types it understood, so simply putting the clipboard's content into a variable inside a particular app could strip off other data types when restoring it. Is there some 'uber-app' that avoids this, or am I worried about something that no longer occurs?
I've also so far been unsuccessful in using an error handler with keystroke commands like command-c. If there is no selection, I hear a system beep, indicating an error occurs when the command runs, but the routine never executes the 'on error' code if enclosed in a try statement, nor does the script halt with an error if I omit it. I don't know if this is peculiar to Mail, to the keystroke command, to GUI scripting in general, caused by my own ineptness, or what. Any thoughts on this are welcomed.
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Why is the content missing from my messages in the Mail app?

Yesterday, because my email addresses are changing, I modified the settings to my accounts in the email application Mail so that they properly connect to the new email addresses and settings.
Most of the accounts are working fine. However, in one of them, it appears the content of nearly all the messages (both received and sent) are missing or not displaying. The program sees that there are different messages and lists them properly in the Inbox and Sent sections but when I try to preview or open them, a blank white screen with the message "Loading..." appears where the message content should.
I did not delete anything that would have affected these accounts in this way, yet this is happening. I tried restarting Mail but the same problem persists. Again my other accounts in Mail seem to be fine.
BTW, I use Mac OS X v. 10.7.5 (Lion).
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