Outbox populating with old sent messages
I am on a macbook with OS 10.5.8. My outbox is populated with an email response that I successfully sent to the recipient a month ago. When I check for new mail, it resends that message in the outbox to the recipient and the next email I had sent after that a month ago populates the outbox. I have been resending old emails everytime I check for new mail. Deleting the mail in the outbox only makes the next old email in line populate the outbox. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Thanks!
I'm seeing the same kind of [mis]behavior. The outbox ALWAYS has one email in it which is chosen from (usually) the SENT folder, but not always. If I delete this one email, the outbox count remains at zero and selecting any other folder and returning reveals a new bogus email stuck in the outbox.
I tried deleting the OUTBOX / mbox folder but that makes no difference.
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CarlNever mind, I figured it out for myself.
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Greetings,
I've spent days trawling around the support section trying to find a solution to this issue without any luck, so I'm hoping that someone might be able to help.
I have Thunderbird setup to access 3 of my Gmail accounts using IMAP and one business account linked to my personal domain, again via IMAP.
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Please help, I've searched the forums for similar issues but nothing has been resolved. I'm going mad!!Prince Of Wales II wrote:
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I installed extra RAM in my iBook G4 about 2 weeks ago. Since then everything has sort of been acting up, especially Mail, Safari, and Photoshop, as they quit frequently.
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iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)Hi Nancyjo
did you backup the home/library/mail folder before you trashed the .plist ?
If you did - the old messages can be recovered.
If not - & you've searched the mail folder in vain for your sent messages - then short of some data recovery software - they're gone.
But the new account you created - is it exactly the same ( mail server & user name ) as your old one? if not, your messages may still be available.
Look in home/library/mail/mailboxes for a folder that matches the old account details ( if a pop server it will be 'POP-your username@your mailserver')
If the folder is there - in addition to the folder for the new account you made - then you're probably in luck.
Make a copy of the whole mail folder first, & the mail.plist file.
In mail - Create a new account with exactly the same details as the one that vanished.
select the inbox or sent folder for the account you just made
choose mail-mailbox-rebuild
If that doesn't do it, but you find the missing messages within the mail folder - they can still be recovered. Let us know how you get on.
if things go screwy while you do this - quit mail & in finder replace the mail folder & plist file with the backup copies you made before you started. start mail again & you should be back where you were.
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But I AM online!
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)This indicates an "overstuffed" mailbox issue which means the mailbox has some corruption and/or is over the recommended size limit.
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When re-launching Mail, a new Sent Messages.mbox will be created automatically by Mail within the account named folder when sending the next message with this account. This will allow the Mail.app to function properly again while working on the old Sent Messages.mbox moved to the Desktop to recover the existing messages and not risk losing any new messages sent with the account.
Control-click on the old Sent Messages.mbox moved to the Desktop and at the menu window that appears, select Show Package Contents.
List the package content file names and size of each here.
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Hi guys!
Mail does no longer save my sent messages although the setting are set that way! Any suggestions? It's pretty annoying because you never know if messages are sent. I also doesn't make that "sending sound" anymore.
Thanks for your help - will try to help you too if i know answers...
lucIf store sent messages on the server is not selected under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences, quit Mail first and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes > Sent Messages (name of your IMAP account in parenthesis).mbox.
Confirm there is only one Sent Messages.mbox folder for this account in the Mailboxes folder.
If so, move this mailbox folder to the Desktop.
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