Some mail shows up in inbox...some doesn't

I am using GMAIl. I receive most new email in my inbox but some seem to just stay in the Gmail>All Mail folder. Any ideas?

Hello Robert:
Open Mail. Highlight (single click) the mailbox you want to rebuild. Select "mailbox" from the menu bar. Select "rebuild" from the drop down menu.
Barry
P.S. Please answer Ernie's questions as well (if the rebuild does not fix the problem) - he is most knowledgeable and will provide good information.

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Why doesn't mail show up in Inbox

Recently my incoming mail no longer appears in my Inbox. It still in appears in my sub-accounts/sub-folders, but not in my Inbox. For example, email sent to my .Mac account shows up in the .Mac subfolder, but not in the Inbox folder. Previously (yesterday), the same email would appear in both (the .Mac subfolder and Inbox) folders.
Any ideas?
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JBatch, you're clearly missing the point of the article. The issue is not whether the mailbox appears completely empty or just misses some messages. The issue is whether your mailboxes are too big for Mail to be able to handle them properly.
One of the things the article says is that, even if the mailboxes may not be too big individually, viewing them combined in the Inbox group can result in Mail not displaying the combined content properly because the total size of all of them exceeds what Mail can handle properly.
This seems to be exactly the problem you're describing, yet you've given no indication of whether the relevant part of that article applies to you (i.e. whether your mailboxes might be too big). Unfortunately, Mail 2.0 does not provide information about the total size of a mailbox as Mail 1.x did, which makes this harder to evaluate, but you could at least give an indication of whether any of your mailboxes has too many and/or too big messages in it...
Also, rebuilding the Inbox group is not possible because Mail only allows individual mailboxes to be rebuilt, not multiple mailboxes nor mailbox groups.

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I have my gmail account linked to my iphone 6 plus and currently it downloads all my e-mails...1000s... pretty sure it's draining my battery. I want to reduce the number of e-mails showing in my inbox... so that only e-mails received in the last couple of days or last 1 week show in my inbox. I'm hoping someone can help me set this up? Thanks in advance!

I have my gmail account linked to my iphone 6 plus and currently it downloads all my e-mails...1000s... pretty sure it's draining my battery. I want to reduce the number of e-mails showing in my inbox... so that only e-mails received in the last couple of days or last 1 week show in my inbox. I'm hoping someone can help me set this up? Thanks in advance!

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I have no idea what may have caused your MacBook to stop working, but from your description it kind of sounds like it may have started before you ran Software Update and installed the new Apps. Just the general slow feeling and bugginess is what tips me off. You said that you weren't sure if you had closed all open windows, that doesn't matter if the computer restarts itself. It automatically closes all other open applications when restarting.
As to your data being retrievable, if when you take it in they do a fresh install of the OS, then no, it will not be unless you want to pay several thousand dollars to a software retrieval company.
I am glad to hear that you have taken into the Apple Store to get it fixed, and that you have all of your purchased music backed up to your iPod. You should be able to just transfer it all back to iTunes once you get your computer back should it be necessary.
As a side note, the proper place for this topic would probably in the MacBook forums, not iTunes since there is no evidence that iTunes started the issue.

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My inbox has randomly stopped receiving new mail. When I click "Get Mail," the Message Activity Bar does say there are incoming messages, yet once completed, no new mail shows up in my inbox.
I can send emails fine. The problem is the inbox.
(I have a POP account if this makes any difference.)

I had exactly the same problem. Messages were on the server but would not display on my inbox. I have a Cox POP account. I deleted my mail setup from the mail program and reinstalled with no luck.
On an off chance, I added my second e-mail account to MAC mail first. All of my test e-mails showed up. I then deleted out my first e-mail account setup in MAIL program. I then re-added my original POP mail account that would not display my inbox e-mail. All of a sudden, my inbox started retrieving both of my e-mails & displaying them properly in my inbox.
I have no idea why this worked but it did. Prior to this I tried to delete out my original e-mail setup, rebuild my mail boxes... but none of this worked.
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a few days ago mail started acting strangely on my .mac account. it would indicate that i had a large number of unread messages in my .mac inbox, then when i looked at the inbox in mail, it would show up as empty.
i started to think that there must be some kind of problem, so i quit mail and checked via webmail. webmail can see all the msgs in my inbox. i quit and try mail.app again. same result (mail shows 0 messages).
i try forcing a "synchronize" from within mail (from the mailboxes menu). there is no change. i try a "rebuild" command from the mailbox menu. there is no change.
i try firing up entourage and it sees the mail in my inbox. i quit entourage and try mail again. no change (mail shows 0 messages).
i suspect that there is some kind of corruption or something either in the local state on my machine or perhaps a message which has some malformed headers or something which is sitting in my inbox and causing mail.app to be unable to properly download the mailbox contents.
i tried using webmail to go in and either delete the messages or move them aside to a separate temporary mailbox. back in mail.app, it sees the new temporary mailbox and at first indicates that it has ~40 or so unread msgs (which is true plus about 10 more read msgs), but when i actually click on the mailbox to look at it, it appears empty. i reconfirmed that webmail and entourage can both see ~50 msgs in the temp mailbox, but mail.app shows zero.
also, in addition, the same problem still holds for my inbox. so now when i send myself a test message, mail.app temporarily indicates that i have new mail, but then when i look in my inbox, nothing appears in mail.app. if i quit and go look at my inbox with webmail or entourage, i can see the new mail as expected.
i looked in system.log, console.log, and mail.log and didn't see any log msgs that seemed to relate to whatever problem mail was having reading the headers/contents from the server.
so i was trying to fix the problem by clearing out my inbox using webmail, but instead it appears that i have merely replicated the cause of the problem so that it now affects two folders instead of just one.
does anyone know of a way to definitively clear out a mailbox altogether on the server? it would be reassuring to know that there was not some hidden corrupt msg sitting in my inbox messing things up.
any other suggestions for how to get out of this state? thanks.
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oh forgot to mention a couple other clear signs that mail.app is "confused" here:
if i right click on a mailbox in the mailboxes window and select "get info..." (a very useful command hidden in an odd place), it shows me that right now my inbox has 3 messages and my temp mailbox has 50 messages. but when i look at either of these mailboxes normally, they show up with zero messages.
if i send myself a test message and then tell mail.app to check for mail, the new message indicator comes on and my inbox temporarily shows up as having 3 new messages. then when i click on it, it shows up as empty and the new message indicator goes away again. if i repeat this it will say 4 new messages, etc.
so it's acting like there's some kind of corrupt partial message at the top of my inbox that mail.app can't read and keeps choking on. i've had this happen before on other imap servers a while back. for those servers, i had normal login access, so i could go and edit or delete the offending file. in this case (apple's .mac server), i don't know how to do the equivalent.

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My mail.app is downloading my mail but it is not showing in my inbox. I have read about deleting the com.mail.pfile to resolve this but the file doesn't exist. Anyone else ever had this experience?

Hi Bryan,
I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact nature of your issue. If you are having issues receiving or displaying your email messages in Mail on your Mac, you may find the troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Regards,
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1 of 5 email ACCOUNTS receives mail OK, but as soon as you leave that account and come back, nothing is shown in the Inbox. The Status Bar however, shows that there are 32 e-mails there although the Inbox is devoid of any text.
Using Search, I can find ALL 32 emails by searching for a word in the subject field or the body fields. The mails ARE there! They just do not display in the Inbox.
So ... how the heck do I get the Inbox to show its contents again?
This was working until day before yesterday when I read an e-mail from a trusted source, and it automagically disappeared, along with all the others in the inbox. ALL other accounts are working just fine.
I tried creating a new email account but it wouldn't let me, giving me an error that the "incoming already exists". No number or anything; it come when I click DONE in the creation process. The new account will not write to the disk.
I have run NOrton AV, AVG, MalWare Bytes, Windows Defender, Spybot and another I forget the name of right now. ALL showed nothing found after each success live scan. I am reasonable sure I do not have any malware.
The e-mails in that account are pretty important and I do not want to lose them if possible; they are for a high school 50th Reunion planning committee.
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Any help would be most appreciated!
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It's almost like, since the messages show a qty in the status bar, that their text has been changed to white, the background color. But when i use Search Messages to get at what's there, the text color is black as it should be.
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When getting my emails I can see that there are coming in because the progress bar at the bottom left corner of mail shows clearly that something is loading.
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Anybody knows what is going on here,
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-- A backup from the SL server installation I had + another separate backup of /var/spool/imap/dovecot directory.
-- Some other backups, for example Server Admin prefs, OD, Shared Files, etc.
-- Since the server was a mess, formatted the disk and installed Lion Server from scratch.
-- In my case, there was a mess with users and the way Mail was handled with virtual aliases, etc. I read about how the dovecot directory worked from the link provided before and decided to follow a similar approach, with some issues
-------- Created the new users in Lion Server and used the Server app to get into the Directory app and find the new user's GUIDs (about 30 users so it took a while but weren't too many).
-------- Looked up the old GUID for each user and pulled the corresponding mail directory from /var/spool/imap/dovecot/mail changing the directory name with the new name and
-------- IMPORTANT: also changing the owner as suggested on the link (i.e., _dovecot=read/write, everyone=none). These permission modifications need to be applied recursively, which is easier using terminal.
-- The issue with this method is that it seems to, sometimes(?), update the file modification dates, which in turn may cause Mail.app on OS X and on iOS Mail to show incorrect dates for each e-mail on the mail list.
-------- I'm still reading about how to correct this issue I found with a particularly huge Inbox (50K+ mails, around 50GB, yikes).
-------- In my case the rest of the config was pretty simple, I used the Server app the setup DNS and Server Admin + modified postfix config file to suit some other requirements.
I hope I'm staying on topic on this thread and that my experience can be of help, in case others run into the same issues.
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