Mountain Lion email

Is anyone having trouble with Mountain lion email? I can receive but not send messages.

Regarding not being able to send emails with Mountain Lion, this might help - courtesy of those magnificent teccies at o2.
Go to mail - preferences - account info - outgoing mail server - select EDIT SMTP list - select Advanced - select use custom port - type 25 into box and click ok.
Thia worked a treat for me.
o2 reckon Apple are well aware of the email problem and are working on fixing it. The sooner the better I say!

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Mail (Mountain Lion) emails disappear - vanishing email - missing emails

Problem:
I have 5 different email addresses configured in Apple's Mail application. One day after checking Mail several times through a day, I open Mail and all 5 email accounts show empty inboxes and outboxes. I was shocked and in panic mode because I have thousands of emails going back to 2012 I needed to refer to.
My setup:
(I'm sure this issue is not limited to my setup)
15" Mid 2010 i7 MacBook Pro, running OS Mountain Lion 10.8.5, Mail version 6.6
My search for an answer:
I've been Mac since the early 90's & I knew finding a solution from apples website would be a ton of work because of Apples mind numbingly pathetic search support.
So I used "the google" to help me.
I found a long history of disappearing issues with Mail since Mountain Lion's introduction.
With that long history, the fixes were many.
I tried two of them:
1- Mails Mailbox pulldown window Rebuild.
2- "home" folders now hidden "Library" remove Mail and Mail Downloads folders..
Neither solution worked for me.
After a lot of time on the google I found help.
Solution:
I found a solution and I'm posting it here in hopes that others find it faster then I did here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11704
In steps:
Mail should not be open, if it is quit Mail.
1 - On your mac, go yo your "Home" folder.
Details for finding this folder:
It is the folder icon that looks like a little house.
A simple way to get there:
With all apps and windows closed, at the top of your monitor, far left, is the Apple icon, next to that is the word "Finder", go right and click on the word "Go", in that drop down menu/window click on "Home"
2 - Open "Library" folder in "Home" folder.
Details for finding this folder:
It is a folder that starting with Lion is now invisable/hidden from your view. So you first have to make it visable/unhide it.
A simple way to get there:
As listed above, at the top of your monitor, far left, is the Apple icon, next to that is the word "Finder", go right and click on the word "Go", in that drop down menu/window now click on "Go to Folder". That will open a window with a box for you to type. In the box type "~/Library" ... more help... the ~ key can be found in the upper left corner of your keyboard just under the esc key. Press the shift key then the `~ key.
3 - Open "Mail", then "V2" then "MailData" inside that folder delete any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm.
Details for finding the items to delete/trash/put in recycle bin and empty:
Inside your now unhidden "Home" "Library" folder, open the "Mail" folder, inside that folder open "V2" folder, inside that folder open "MailData" folder, inside that folder look for any file that begins with “Envelope Index,” such as Envelope Index or Envelope Index-shm. and throw them in the trash and delete/empty trash.
4 - last step. Open mail.
It should open with a window "Mail message Import" click on "next" it will prosess/make a new list of your existing emails (more emails will take more time) and you should be back in business.

Thomas A Reed wrote:
Yes I am and for good reason.
You have never elaborated on those reasons.
Have you ever looked at all the posts on these forums about Mac Mail? More then for any other Mail program on any other forum
You should know better than to extrapolate conclusions from such questionable sources. Data on troubleshooting forums is always biased towards trouble, so you have no data about the ratio of people having trouble to people not having trouble. Further, comparing to other forums is similarly meaningless. Mail is the default e-mail client on the Mac, and will have a much higher portion of the market share than Thunderbird. So of course it will have more complaints, because more people are using it.
If you have concrete reasons to constantly bash Mail, rather than hearsay and unscientific "data," I'm all ears.
Don't waste your time Tom, this Shootist guy is not actually capable of answering anything put to him, eg: see below.
Shootist007 wrote:
Right whatever.
EDIT:
There goes the "Mac's, They Just Work" idea.

Mountain Lion Email doesn't work even with 10.8.1 update!

My mail application completely failed shortly after the upgrade to Mountain Lion. None of the user advice has repaired it from these forums, so I have now resigned myself to using my ipad and iphone to conduct all my business emails. I was hopeful that this first 10.8.1 update from Apple would restore the my mail application. I can frustratingly report that no, it certainly hasn't. No change in fact. I click on the mail app and the beachball of death continues for about 5 minutes then it comes up with a message 'there is a problem with your mailboxes' with the option to quit or quit and rebuild index. If I choose that latter, the beachball resumes it's rotation forever or until I hard reset the machine as all other programs crash at this point. Apple, please help FAST, this is no way to run a business!!!!

Agreed, but I think that for most Mail seems to be working fine. There don't seem to many posts complaining about Mail problems - well no more than usual.
Have you tried a Safe Boot which sometimes helps in solving odd problems. and if that doesn't help, re-installing the OS using the Recovery HD?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
For a Safe Boot restart holding down the shift key until you see a grey progress bar. Once booted restart as normal from the Apple menu.

OSX Mountain Lion Email APP

   I have a problem with ny retina macbook pro I updated to OSX mountain Lion after update the EMAIL APP in the area when you see the new emails if you scroll up or down begins to see deteriorate like garbage then I made a click in that area and the garbage dissapear and I can see the list of emails but is so bad because if I scroll down to see old emails I can´t see nothing because I see garbage and that garbage disappear when I make a click making useless this problem the email app. Any suggestion on how to fix that issue?
   Note: Is just the problem with email app other apps and whole system are running perfect.
Than you

I solved doing from that link https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4145777?start=0&tstart=0
this:
1. Bring up System Preferences, go to iCloud and uncheck "Contacts"
2. You need to remove the folder /Users/<your_name>/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
          If you have issues removing, quit Mail and Contacts
          If you don't have contacts in iCloud, try renaming the folder
3. Reboot the machine
4. Bring up System Preferences, go to iCloud and now check "Contacts"
Now when you bring up Contacts, it should sync with iCloud, Mail and Messages will work fine.
Then:
After trying everything listed in this thread without succes, deleting the following finally solved my problem:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
~/Library/Application Support/SyncServices
This solved the issue.
Thank you anyway

Mountain Lion - email size

Before mountain lion, I could see how big my email was. The size was displayed on the lower right, I think. I'm running mountain lion, now. How do I turn that feature on?

Open Mail, click on the View menu, then Columns, then scroll down and select Size. Position it in the Mail window where you wish.

After installing mountain lion emails arrive and instantly vanish

my account is a IMAP one and smtp2go.com (smtp), before installing mountain lion I could read all mails, now when they arrived they desappear just after you read them (you cannot find them in unwanted mails), I took the solution of sending them to a "new" folder of Apple Mail: archived or filed.

Check your junk mail settings it could be removing them to the junk box

Mountain Lion Mail & Preview Problem.

Hello All
The menu bar in Mountain Lion email application is not responding. Did shut down and retried, no effect. Ran disk utility and did "Repair Permission", no luck.
It downloads email and I see theemail list , but I cannot read. I see the same issue with Preview, can't access the menu. Clicking on teh menus does not do anything I cannot read the emails download. Help!
Thanks in advance.

I just installed Mountain Lion after using Lion and had all SORTS of problems with Mail application (freezing, deleted emails would reappear, crashing, etc. etc.). I called Apple Support and they told me to do this, and it works:
shut down
then turn on computer while holding command R
when OS Utilities window comes up go to the top menu bar and click Utilities, then Terminal.
type (all one word, lower case): reset password
hit return
go to the bottom of the reset password window that comes up,
select the HD
then click the Reset button at the bottom under "Reset Home Folder Permission and ACLs"
then wait for it to finish
click the red button to close the finder.
then go to Terminal at top,
Quit Terminal.
Then restart under the apple logo icon.

Emails from one account don't appear in the Inbox of Mail since upgrading to Mountain Lion

I have a couple of email accounts - one is Gmail and one is a domain for my business. Previously Mail would show the Inbox and then a subfolder for each account under Inbox. Any messages received in the accounts would appear in both their own subfolder and also the Inbox. All my rules worked properly and life was good. Now, try as I might I cannot get my domain email account messages to show in the global/unified Inbox.
Originally the domain email folder was totally separate to the Inbox. By changing the IMAP Prefix (removing 'Inbox') I was able to get the folder at least under Inbox.
I purchased a new iMac and used Migration Assistant to move everything, therefore the problem persists. I had additional problems that my address book, rules and On My Mac folders didn't appear - but I solved that by finding the Containers folder and it is like a duplicate of Mail. I moved things from there to the Library/Mail and those particular issues resolved. But for the inbox issue, I have removed data from the Users/Library/Mail and from Library/Containers and started afresh - even deleted the Mail App and reinstalled from my original disc, but as soon as I set up the account it happens again.
Recently I have also started receiving errors when sending to use the Connection Doctor. I don't know if all this is related to a bug in Mountain Lion, the way I have things set up, or my domain/ISP.
Any suggestions on what to try, what it may be or ways around it would be great. I do have a Smart Mailbox for a Total Inbox, but of course the Rules don't work automatically on it. I'm getting sick of running Rules manually. Help please!!

I called the support service and she told me to delete my email address and re-enter it. I have no problem since then on receiving and sending emails.

HT5361 I want to permanently remove years old emails from my IMac Mountain Lion system. How can I do this by year instead of laboriously doing it one message at a time?

I want to permanently remove years old emails from my IMac Mountain Lion system. How can I do so by year rather than slowly removing one message at a time? Many thanks.

Another option is to create a smart mailbox that includes emails with date received before a desired date.
Then, select one message in the Smart Mailbox and cmd-A to select all. Then delete.

I have installed Mountain Lion 10.8.2 but still cannot get email from my work exchange account. I'd appreciate any help. Thank you.

I have installed Mountain Lion 10.8.2 but still cannot get email from my work exchange account. I'd appreciate any help. Thank you.

You can go to the Apple online store and purcahse a copy of Mountain Lion. This will give you a redemption code, which you can use to download Mountain Lion from the App Store. Unfortuantely, I'm not aware of any other way to legally purchase it. I have never seen Apple release Muontain Lion on DVD.
In terms of Apple Service, they just need the serial number of the machine to check the purcahse date. It is usually correct, to within a few weeks. A quick Google search should give you the correct number to dial.
I hope this helps.

I have installed Mountain Lion 10.8.1 but still cannot get email from my work exchange account. I'd appreciate any help. Thank you.

I have installed Mountain Lion 10.8.1 but still cannot get email from my work exchange account. I'd appreciate any help. Thank you.

I would delete the account and try to re-enter it. Also, you have to let your firm's IT department know that you want to sync work email on your personal devices before they actually work.

In mail in lion and also in snow leopard you were able to click on an incoming email address and select it in spotlight , this feature in mountain lion is now gone , where did it go it was really useful?

I used to use this feature multiples times a day as it was a great way to look up all correspondance that a person had sent through.
This option is gone now with mountain lion and I am wondering why as it was great! you just had to click on an email address and you could select looking it up within mail.

Hi There Linc Davis,
Wow, you are the best.
Yip this is what the website looks like. Great job Linc Davis.
Not surprised that the "Shop" tab is missing. Darn.
Well can you try to access it's "sister" website: astralmusic.com and astralmusicshop.com?
Since you are awesome with the "Flash" can you investigate if this website has a issue withis this "Flash" too?
Please Linc Davis

Mail after Mountain Lion Upgrade fails to get email

I upgraded to Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard after being told by friends that they've had no issues and that I shouldn't listen to the gossip, since doing so I too have discovered hmy imac going slow, even with 16Gb RAM quietly seeming to be maxed out when doing nothing. My mail has to be quit and reopended several times a day for it to access email accounts which are important work and also personal ones. I have tried disconnecting all account and re-entering them as new, just in case, and after reading another post on here I have also restarted with Control R and reset my Home Folder Permssions and ACLs as was given as advice by a mac engineer but I still have to restart mail regularly. In truth it is my only major issue since the upgrade, apart from it wiping out and ruining 2 USB Drives, but I really wish I hadn't done it. I could not fault Snow Leopard and for the sake of getting access to icloud I really don't think it was the best option. I've spent all the time saying "Once you go Mac, you'll never go back!" but I havent said that in a while! I'm now wieghing up the costs of a return to PC simply because this is a constant hassle.

I have 4 accounts running, 2 POP and 2 IMAP, after doing some checking today with a mac engineer online, it appears that it is incoming mail only affected and only on the POP accounts. I had previously tried recreating the accounts but as from today even just quitting Mail and reopening no longer works... the engineer has had to exculate my call to a specialist who in turn has now had to send it off to a specialist team to work on. When I get results, I will post them in case it helps someone else.

HT201342 How will this benefit me. I have a Mac computer that i upgraded to Mountain lion, a macbook pro and an iPhone 4s which has the latest software. all i want is simplicity and to have one email account which which will not duplicate everything 4 or

I have been asked to set up an Icloud account by Apple.
How will having another icloud email benefit me. I have my work email which is all i require, but had to set up a @me account to get email on my Macbook.
I have a Mac computer that i upgraded to Mountain lion, a macbook pro and an iPhone 4s which has the latest software. all i want is simplicity and to have one email account which which will not duplicate everything 4 or 5 times.
My notes are duplicated, i have to delete my emails individually on all devices so whenever i put my phone on, all the emails i have deleted at work re-appear on my phone and again the same thing happens on my Macbook pro. I seem to spend all my time deleting emails 3 times.
Is there something simple in the set up of these that i am missing?
Any help would be appreciated

I have been asked to set up an Icloud account by Apple.
How will having another icloud email benefit me. I have my work email which is all i require, but had to set up a @me account to get email on my Macbook.
I have a Mac computer that i upgraded to Mountain lion, a macbook pro and an iPhone 4s which has the latest software. all i want is simplicity and to have one email account which which will not duplicate everything 4 or 5 times.
My notes are duplicated, i have to delete my emails individually on all devices so whenever i put my phone on, all the emails i have deleted at work re-appear on my phone and again the same thing happens on my Macbook pro. I seem to spend all my time deleting emails 3 times.
Is there something simple in the set up of these that i am missing?
Any help would be appreciated

After upgrading to Mountain Lion, I am not receiving some of my emails. Sender gets error message: Status 5.5.0.

I am using Outlook for Mac on my MacBook Pro. All was working well until I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Since the upgrade, some (not all) of my incoming email messages are bounced back to the sender with the message: ....Status: 5.5.0....Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 250 OK. What can I do to resume reception of all of my email?

I am using Outlook for Mac on my MacBook Pro. All was working well until I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2). Since the upgrade, some (not all) of my incoming email messages are bounced back to the sender with the message: ....Status: 5.5.0....Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 250 OK. What can I do to resume reception of all of my email?

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