Problems with deleting mail in Mail-Yoesmite 10.10.1

Each day, I have a problem where Mail will not delete messages that I have deleted. The messages I want deleted seems to be in the Trash folder and appear to be deleted when I select the delete button. But when I click out to another folder and then come back to the Trash folder, those messages are still there.
T have tried doing this 3-4 times, with the same result.
I have since found that quitting the Mail program resolves this problem and so each day, I have to quit Mail in order to get it to function correctly.
Clearly, there is a problem with this piece of software, a piece of software which is one of the worst things Apple has ever made and which has been driving me nuts for years.

I can't find a way to edit my question so I am adding further info as a reply.
In addition to not deleting emails, Mail also does not always show me the most recent emails.
When I quit the app and re-open it, a bunch of new emails suddenly appear, all with different time stamps.

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Problem with deleting mail from my AOL account on the Mac Mail Program

It worked perfectly on Tiger. But now that I am using leopard, I get this error message when I try to delete my aol mail on the Mail program.
"The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: UID COPY failed Deleted Messages: no such mailbox."
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See this...
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Problem with an account of Mail

I had, with Leopard, a Mail account that did not want to work and, after the installation of Lion, I tried to repair it.
The first thing that I did was to remove completely from Mail that account. Than I started by loading, from Mail Preferences, my Name, the Mail Address, the Pop, the SMTP and all other data, but the account did not wanted to work nor receiving nor transmitting. During the registration of the necessary data Mail notified me that, if I wanted to continue, I had to proceed Manually. At the end of registration it appeared on the right side of the "Sent" icon a triangle with an exclamation point inside. I repeated more times the account registration operation, all with negative results. I have also removed from User/Library/Preferences the file "apple.com.mail.plist" and some files in the "Mail" folder of User/Library and repeated again the registration process: always without success. At that time, to check the validity of the account parameters that I utilized, I registered the same account in Windows XP of the same iMac, and it worked immediately, both receiving and sending mails. That means that the utilized parameters are correct.
It seems that, in some place in OSX 10.7.1 of my iMac some wrong data, loaded when the operating system was Leopard, remain in some file that I'm not able to find and to remove.
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Notice that on the same computer (in Mac side) I have other two Mail Accounts that work perfectly.
Regards
Roberto

Hello
Just for test ,make a new account ( system pref ->account -> + button ) , and try configure mail again
if that work , your problem with mail locate on your account ( preference , caches ,font somwhere into library folder )
if not work in new accout , may have problem in mail app or system
HTH
Pierre
PS : delet files into library folder could be VERRY destructive !! be carefull

Problem with .mac account and mail 2.05 (os x 10.4.4)

hi!
i am not able to add a .mac account in mail 2.05. system is os x 10.4.4.
.mac settings in system preference work fine, on my cube with os 10.3.9 i can add the .mac account without problems.
in mail under 10.4.4 i can´t even select accounts besides IMAP, POP and EXCHANGE. if i delete mails plist and even the mail file and achieving a "virginal mail" i just can select these 3 accounts (POP,IMAP,EXCHANGE). strange because if i setup .mac settings in system preferences before setting up a POP mail account (i have 3 POP accounts besides .mac), the .mac account is automatically set up in mail. but even than i can´t set up manually (another) .mac account (can´t be selected in account pulldown menue) as well as soon as i delete it it can´t be resetup.
no way with new user, same procedure. i reinstalled mail from tiger-dvd as well as reinstalling 10.4.4 combo update and repair disc permissions. no way to get .mac to work the normal way.
has anyone any idea?
thanks so long,
peter

the empty folder ~/Library/Mail/ at root level seemed to be the problem of not being able to activating the .Mac account in mail. after copying this folder onto harddisk again (i have a new "20 iMac at work with 10.4.4) the problem was solved. no idea how to get this folder again besides installing a blank 10.4.x install onto external firewire hdd or having a second system...
thanks so long.
i guess i made a mistake when migrating my old mail prefs from 10.3.x to 10.4.x blank install when moving the folders to 10.4.x maybe i have first choosen the ~/Library/Mail/ folder at root level and when recognizing that mail is not working with new user, i´m sure i might have deleted the whole mail prefs and mail folder on root level and copied the whole stuff again into USER/Library/Mail/. Therefore the folder ~/Library/Mail/ at root level became empty. i purchased .Mac just a few days ago so i recognized this failure just now...

Problems with sent box, reindexing mail

I am in the middle of a mail crisis and in need of help. I apologize for the longwinded explanation, but I thought I would be thorough in the hopes that it will help me get help.
It started with my sent box (which is very large) "dragging" when I ran searches in it (which I often have to do with my work).
Firstly, I tried to rebuild the sent box. Mail froze halfway through the process and I had to force quit it. When I started mail again, I noticed that the content of the messages were not correlating to the right message headers (recipient or subject line). I tried rebuilding the sent box again. This time, it went a little farther before freezing (it froze when the activity window indicated something was being done with the attachments - I can't remember exactly what). After force quitting again, I noticed that the messages in the sent box were correlating properly but it was stil very slow in searches, the box took a real long time to open, and sometimes it would freeze mail.
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I tried to go back to where I was before reindexing by erasing the new envelope folders that had been created, and replacing them with the ones that were there before and I had removed. It seemingly worked as Mail started again. However, now had more issues. First, my inbox was empty... I had to restore it from time machine back up. Then, I noticed that the content of the messages in all of my mailboxes would not load. I could see the messages and their previews, but the content would not load when I clicked on the messages. All of that on top of the sent box conitunuing to misbehave.
By this time, I started getting messages from the OS about my startup disk being almost full (real strange since I had just freed up close to 80 GB!). I knew something was wrong with that, but went ahead and got rid of another 30GB so I could proceed with trying to fix mail and would come back to this problem later.
I decided to try the reindexing again. Tried the terminal method, but nothing seemed to happen. Tried the replacing of the envelope folders again, and the same happened: froze and my HD went to capacity again. I then realized that the reindexing and the filling of the HD had to be directly connected. After some research, I downloaded an app (whatsize) to find heavy or duplicate files, and, sure enough, there were hundreds of GB in duplicate mail data (sent box) in my library. The Whatsize app is currently working to sort out all of the duplicate files (a 20 hour process). This is my first time using this app, but I am thinking that, upon conclusion, I should be able to delete the duplicates...
That brings to where I am at now. Where to go from here? After (if) deleting the duplicates, what is the best way to restablish Mail?
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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, for the two accounts involved in the problem, 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.
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Are others having problems with Lion and btinternet mail ?

Since using OS-X Lion many odd things have been happening , especially with Mail ( 5.1).
The problems may be related to the combination of Lion/Mail 5.1 and btinternet as my ISP.
1. Since using Lion, with (Mac) Mail I have been unable to use BTinternet's 'POP' mail - although my local Apple Store Genius tells me that it was not a good choice and I'm well rid of it - in favour of IMAP mail
2. BT has, recently improved the security of its IMAP mail, so perhaps IMAP is the best choice. In any event Mac Mail under Lion appears to take over as soon as bt is mentioned and signs me up automatically for IMAP. Even if I override the automatic process it still will not let me go to bt's POP mail.
3. HOWEVER ( it's a big one!), whilst the incoming IMAP mail seems O.K. it frequently won't let me send mail. It simply puts it into drafts when I click send.
4. Sometimes, if I go away and make a coffee ( not mandatory) and come back ten minutes later it will have sent the mail - but leaves a copy in 'drafts'. I know it has sent it because it appears in the Send box - despite there being no sign on any movement showing sending when I leave the machine ...
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6. I was able to demonstrate the problem to a Genius at the Apple Store. We deleted the account and rentered it and had the same problem - no sending.
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You may allready do this, but it could be worth a shot to do it again.

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I have a problem with Mail mangling Cyrillic fonts. It happens like this:
1. I create a new mail. I set my input locale to Bulgarian - Phonetic.
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I just got a new iMac G5, and I have woefully messed up Mail on it. I use Mail to access an Exchange account (via IMAP) that I can also access from other computers (PowerMac G5 10.4.2, iBook G4 10.3.9). Upon initial iMac setup, Mail worked fine. Then I imported a large number (>10,000) of archived messages from mailboxes on the iBook. I probably did this wrong, as I first tried just copying the mailboxes from Library/Mail on iBook to same location on iMac. All dragged-over mailboxes appeared empty, so I deleted and used Mail's "import" feature. Imported mailboxes all contain two copies of each message, one I can read, and one saying that the message has not been downloaded from the server. All mailboxes were within an "Imported" folder. When I tried to drag messages to other folders to re-organize them, I could not transfer the "not downloaded" copies and the copies I could transfer disappeared when I put them in new mailboxes.
At the same time, though I don't know if they are connected, my iMac's Mail Inbox stopped showing any messages. I can see messages in Mail's Inbox on the other computers, so I know there are messages on the server. I can see contents of Drafts and Sent mailboxes on the server. Preferences were not touched. I tried rebuilding Inbox and other mailboxes but did not help. Quitting the application and reopening, as well as restarting the computer, did not help. I also notice that Mail now takes several minutes to quit.
Questions:
1. Any idea how to get Mail to show what's on the server in my Inbox?
2. Any idea how to import messages without the "not downloaded" duplicates? How do I then move them to the folders where I want them?
3. Can I dump and re-install Mail without re-installing the entire OS? Outside of Mail, I have a lot of settings personalized that I would rather not lose.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

I just got a new iMac G5, and I have woefully messed
up Mail on it. I use Mail to access an Exchange
account (via IMAP) that I can also access from other
computers (PowerMac G5 10.4.2, iBook G4 10.3.9).
Upon initial iMac setup, Mail worked fine. Then I
imported a large number (>10,000) of archived
messages from mailboxes on the iBook. I probably
did this wrong, as I first tried just copying the
mailboxes from Library/Mail on iBook to same
location on iMac. All dragged-over mailboxes
appeared empty, so I deleted and used Mail's
"import" feature. Imported mailboxes all contain
two copies of each message, one I can read, and one
saying that the message has not been downloaded from
the server. All mailboxes were within an "Imported"
folder. When I tried to drag messages to other
folders to re-organize them, I could not transfer
the "not downloaded" copies and the copies I could
transfer disappeared when I put them in new
mailboxes.
At the same time, though I don't know if they are
connected, my iMac's Mail Inbox stopped showing any
messages. I can see messages in Mail's Inbox on the
other computers, so I know there are messages on the
server. I can see contents of Drafts and Sent
mailboxes on the server. Preferences were not
touched. I tried rebuilding Inbox and other
mailboxes but did not help. Quitting the application
and reopening, as well as restarting the computer,
did not help. I also notice that Mail now takes
several minutes to quit.
Questions:
1. Any idea how to get Mail to show what's on the
server in my Inbox?
2. Any idea how to import messages without the "not
downloaded" duplicates? How do I then move them to
the folders where I want them?
3. Can I dump and re-install Mail without
re-installing the entire OS? Outside of Mail, I have
a lot of settings personalized that I would rather
not lose.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
I read your message and saw that you fixed the problem. I have the same problem. How did you do it?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Alan
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