Mixed up Mail

My apple mail has suddenly gone odd and its a nightmare trying to find new mail!
When I first got my mac all the new mail was at the top, now they seem to be in random order and for example a email I got yesterday is between one dated 2 September and one dated 30 May 2008. It means scrolling slowly through everything to try and find the ones that have just come in.
What's wrong with it? How do I get it back so all recent mail comes in together at either top or bottom of screen together and all in chronological date order?
I'm not sure if I've accidentally clicked on something thats changed it or how to get it back?

Hi - with your inbox selected make sure that the "Date Received" header is selected and the arrow to the right is pointing downwards.

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Apple Mail (v6.6, Mac OSX v10.8.5) mixes up mail threads - why, and what can I do?

Dear community,
I am having a weird synchronisation problem. My Mail (v6.6) on my MacBook Air (Mac OSX v10.8.5) mixes up random email threads after I read emails on my iPhone (5C).
E. g. there is an email thread with Frank. Frank writes a new email that I read on my iPhone. Shortly after, I open Mail on my MacBook, so that Frank’s email is downloaded there as well, displayed as "read" and added to the existing thread with Frank. However, although still being named "Frank", showing the current date and reference, in fact it is an email of Fritz from two years ago, having nothing at all to do with the thread with Frank.
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Make a temporary, backup copy (if you don't already have a backup copy) of the library and try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
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Scrambled, Mixed E-mails

Windows 7 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz
32.0 GHz RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580
I think I have a disaster here and I need help, please.
I just started Thunderbird and opened an e-mail that I had previously viewed. The contents were NOT the e-mail that should have been contained under that Subject Header but one that I had deleted earlier in the day.
I then proceeded to open another previously viewed e-mail and it contained multiple e-mails, one of which, in the mish-mash, was the one that I wanted to see.
In some cases, the e-mail looks "normal" even though it's the incorrect message. In other cases, especially with the combined ones, I see all of the message sources.
My View - Sort By is Date/Descending/Unthreaded.
I'm hoping that I can get this rectified otherwise I'm in deep yogurt.
Thanks!
[email protected]

That seems to have done it perfectly. Thank you so very much!

Attachments in Mails from iPad not conform to RFC2046

Hello Community,
Mails which were sent from iPad / iPhone and have attachments have the following technical structure:
Headerfield Content-Type is multipart/alternative;
--Apple-Mail-6--139698084 / Content-Type: text/plain;
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--Apple-Mail-6--139698084 / Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
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when he displays the Mail in Text-Only View.
Therefor I think that AppleMailer is not conform to the RFC2046:
5.1.4. Alternative Subtype
The "multipart/alternative" type is syntactically identical to
"multipart/mixed", but the semantics are different. In particular,
each of the body parts is an "alternative" version of the same
information.
What do You think about that ? Is this the right place to discuss this ? If not: Where can I report
such a Problem ?
Kind regards,
dstrict

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tt2

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Hi,
Strange thing:
We are using JES5 with both UWC and outlook connector.
Mails sent from UWC in Internet explorer (dutch version) display a 'file attachment' icon in outlook 2003 (in the header pane). In the message pane, there's no file attachment.
Mails sent from UWC in Mozilla (dutch version) display fine in outlook 2003 (that is: no sign of a file attachment icon).
Upon further inspection, I noticed that Internet explorer generates this type of mime header (notice the multipart/mixed)
X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 32007;
32bit)
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-language: nl
Subject: test tekst
X-Accept-Language: nl
Priority: normal
Content-type: multipart/mixed; boundary=--30a08e3d58b82ed92965
X-ESAFE-STATUS: Mail clean
X-ESAFE-DETAILS:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
----30a08e3d58b82ed92965
Content-Type: text/plain;
     charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
testtekst
----30a08e3d58b82ed92965--
Mozilla generates this type of mime header (ntocie the multipart/alternative)
X-Mailer: Sun Java(tm) System Messenger Express 6.3-4.01 (built Aug 32007;
32bit)
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-language: nl
Subject: test vanuit nl - uwc - html
X-Accept-Language: nl
Priority: normal
Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary=--3091e7cf67b73e73237c
X-ESAFE-STATUS: Mail clean
X-ESAFE-DETAILS:
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
----3091e7cf67b73e73237c
Content-Type: text/plain;
     charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
test test
----3091e7cf67b73e73237c
Content-Type: text/html;
     charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
test test
----3091e7cf67b73e73237c--
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I don't know where to look for solving this bug:
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- or should internet explorer generate multipart/alternative style mails ?
any ideas ?
gr,
Tom.

That's not someting I've seen. I suggest a support case.

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I went in and deleted all names so it would only use the mail address for ID and that hasn't helped because Mail is still holding a memory of the accounts under my name. That part where you can just type the first letter of an address and it gives you all the choices that have been used before.
Removing preferences doesn't work, that totally erases ALL accounts. I tried rebuild mailboxes and that didn't help. How can I flush out the old names so that Mail stops using my name and mixing the mail up.

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not one in the same and are not interchangeable when
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I am writting a code to send an email using Java Mail API.
I have manged what I wanted(send a mail with an attachment)
But in my code I have hard coded the SMTP server address,that is what I dont want to do .Is there anything in java which can fetch the default SMTP server address ?

Let me send the code itself to make it clear
Here the host is hard coded to10.1.1.5
I dont want that ,rather I would like my code itself to fetch the host
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import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.mail.*;
import javax.mail.internet.*;
import javax.activation.*;
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msg.saveChanges();
bus.sendMessage(msg, address);
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msg.saveChanges();
bus.sendMessage(msg, address);
setFileAsAttachment(msg, "D:/ketan.txt");
msg.saveChanges();
bus.sendMessage(msg, address);
setHTMLContent(msg);
msg.saveChanges();
bus.sendMessage(msg, address);
bus.close();
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while (mex.getNextException() != null) {
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Attachment without multipart content type

Hello,
My application receives mails sent from some different customers and parses the mail's attachments. The problem is that all these customers send their mails in a very different ways. Some of them send mails with "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" header while some others send mail with the following headers (among some other):
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/xml
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:33:26 +0000
From: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <1392143606.220.1@cls0361>
Subject: orders000005311382.xml
To: <[email protected]>
There is no "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" header at all. When I look at these messages with MS Outlook I can see that they have proper attachements.
Now I have 2 problems:
1. I would like to produce such an email myself since resending the received emails changes the message headers. There are lots of examples how to send a message with an attachment in Java with MimeMultipart object (this produces "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;") but I could not find one which sends the message with "Content-Type: application/xml" header only without any multipart header. I suspect that there are some specific applications which send mails in that way - not standard mail clients.
2. I would like to get the attachment of a received mail with "Content-Type: application/xml" header. The following code works for "Content-Type: multipart/mixed;" only:
public void invoke() throws Exception {
/* Available Variables: DO NOT MODIFY
    In : String mimeMessage
    In : String encoding
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* Available Variables: DO NOT MODIFY *****/
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java.util.ArrayList<String> al = new java.util.ArrayList<String>();
getAttachements(mm, al, 1);
mimeParts = new String[0];
mimeParts = al.toArray(mimeParts);
private void getAttachements(javax.mail.internet.MimeMultipart mm, ArrayList<String> al, int depth) throws Exception {
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Could anyone suggest anything which may be helpful for resolving 1 or 2?
Best regards

You are right! parsing of such not-multipart mail may look like that:
if (contentType.startsWith("application/xml")) {
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Thanks!

Attachment without multipart

Hi,
Can anybody tell me if it is possible to send a mail with javamail without using MultiPart?
thanks

You are right! parsing of such not-multipart mail may look like that:
if (contentType.startsWith("application/xml")) {
            //just a plain attachement which is a mail's content and not a multipart.
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OK, I'm a longtime Mac guy, sort of long term Blackberry fan, heavy network engineering type living in an enterprise data environment, but I finally broke down and went iPhone due to the fact it is very easy to connect to my Exchange server.
This may be a very dumb question but - how the @!*^@#!#! do I do a KEYWORD SEARCH!?!?
This was a key feature of the Blackberry that I didn't think would be an issue on my iPhone.
Is there no way to do a search on the mail client?
Thanks
Message was edited by: Mike Meyer1

It's not a great answer but the iPhone has an adequate browser to use exchange OWA and OWA has a search if you really get stuck.
I am a converting blackberry user -- carry both, BB for office and iPhone personal, and I rarely used search on the BB but I know some who do and not sure why something that simple (even if not indexed and just brute force) isn't in there.
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I want to send differnet mails through EMOD to receipients in CRM database (Accounts, contacts) based on their attribute. E.G. i have customers from North and south and there is a different mail we have designed for north and south. So i want to achieve some thing like. when sending a mail to all receipients, customer in north will receive the north mail ans customer in south get the south mail.
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