"Sort by" and Mail

Whenever I restart my mail, the "Sort By" tab changes back to "Sort by Unread". Is there anyway to keep this on another option without having to reset it every time I start up mail?

Click on Finder. Hold down the 'option' key and choose 'Go' from the menu.
With the 'option' key still held down, choose Library from the menu.
Navigate to and trash this file:
~/Library/Preferences/apple.com.mail.plist
Restart your machine.

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IMac; 10.9.2: Mail: lost scroll bar in sort column and mail

right side scroll bar is missing both in sort column and when viewing an individual email from main screen.....
HELP

mskathk wrote:
Did this setting change with one of the updates?
Yes.

Mail Sort Order and Logitech Control Center 3.1

LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader.osax is a Scripting Addition in /library/scriptingadditions that reproducibly causes the sort order in Mail to revert to Date Received/Newest on Top. With LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader.osax in the Scripting Additions folder, you can change the sort order for a folder, but when you click on another folder and return to the original, the sort order reverts to Date Received/Newest on Top.
Removing LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader.osax and restarting Mail remedies this problem.
Can anyone else confirm this occurs in their system as well (10.6.1)?

I upgraded to Snow Leopard (10.6.2) from 10.5 yesterday and noticed this Mail sort problem straight away. Concurrently I upgraded to Default Folder 4.3.3 and LCC 3.1. Following the advice of you guys, I've excluded Mail.app in System Prefs/Default Folder/Settings/Advanced and lo and behold date sort is working normally again.
I mean, I've spent 15 years having most recent at the bottom and it's very wrong to have it at the top!

Multiple issues with Mavericks update and Mail

I have a MacBook Pro mid 2009 2,53 GHz 13-inch. It has 4GB of RAM and a Hitachi 500GB 5400 rpm disk with about 200GB of free space. After working on 10.6.8 for a long time I have upgraded to 10.9.2. I formatted the internal disk, made a clean install of the new system and rebuilt from a Time Machine backup I had made before. The system has slowed down to snail speed (even the simplest actions like opening a new window in the Finder take at times 10 to 15 seconds with the spinning beach ball appearing. Also (and maybe even more serious) my emails became completely messed up. First, all headers and mails got mixed up and several mails didn’t appear, after rebuilding the mailboxes about 60% of my emails were completely lost. I would like to recover my mails from Time Machine but it’s impossible to access emails from before the system upgrade. Am I doing something wrong? Is my computer really too old? How can I give a second try at importing all my mails from the old system? This is the crappiest update I have ever had (been working on Apple since 1994).

1. This procedure is a diagnostic test. It changes nothing, for better or worse, and therefore will not, in itself, solve the problem.
2. If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data before doing anything else. The backup is necessary on general principle, not because of anything in the test procedure. There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
3. Below are instructions to run a UNIX shell script, a type of program. All it does is to collect information about the state of the computer. That information goes nowhere unless you choose to share it. However, you should be cautious about running any kind of program (not just a shell script) at the request of a stranger on a public message board. If you have doubts, search this site for other discussions in which this procedure has been followed without any report of ill effects. If you can't satisfy yourself that the instructions are safe, don't follow them. Ask for other options.
Here's a summary of what you need to do, if you choose to proceed: Copy a line of text from this web page into the window of another application. Wait for the script to run. It usually takes a few minutes. Then paste the results, which will have been copied automatically, back into a reply on this page. The sequence is: copy, paste, wait, paste again. Details follow.
4. You may have started the computer in "safe" mode. Preferably, these steps should be taken in “normal” mode. If the system is now in safe mode and works well enough in normal mode to run the test, restart as usual. If you can only test in safe mode, do that.
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Did most recent Audio update to OSX and Mail.app went insane.

I switched to the Mac in... November? and have absolutely loved it. This has been my first catastrophic experience thus far and I'm used to Windows being a part time job to manage so I'm not complaining.
However, late last week OSX installed an audio update of some sort and when I rebooted mail.app had seemingly lost it's mind:
1. IMAP accounts constantly go offline and then back online at random time intervals. This problem I actually had occasionally before but now it's a constant annoyance.
2. Frequently getting "The message from "somebody" concerning "something" has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." error message for messages that have a. already been downloaded and b. who's accounts are showing as online. FYI, yes I do have mail.app set to download and keep a copy of the messages locally.
3. Some messages (I can't find a pattern but it's about 5% of the messages) download repeatedly and appear in the inbox as many as 51 times. The only solution to this seems to be to log into the IMAP account's webmail access and delete the "offending" message.
4. An account can be online and yet not show all the messages that are in the inbox. I know this because if I log into the webmail I can see them.
5. Seemingly randomly the rules are ignored. Typically I can select a message and then tell mail to apply rules and then it works but why didn't the rule happen on it's own as usual.
6. The general "Inbox" sometimes doesn't show new items in the individual account inboxes until I go and click on those individual account inboxes and then come back to the general inbox.
Info about my system/setup:
a. I have 4 IMAP accounts.
b. I store messages on the IMAP server.
c. The "fullest" IMAP account has roughly 500 MB in it but is set to have 2.4 GB capacity on the IMAP server. That account also has 48 personal folders on it, and has had them for a little over a month. After reading about smart folders, I intend to consolidate many of these into an "Archives" folder.
d. The other IMAP accounts are each set to have 1+ GB of available server storage but each have under 100 MB used.
e. I use SpamSieve for email (love it, by the way)
f. I have a demo of MailTags running (it's been since mid-June and I've only played around with tagging a few emails so far but I intend to use iGTD once I get Mail back under control)
What I've tried:
1. I read that it's better to do the consolidated updates than the incremental ones so three times now I've tried to download the consolidated OSC 10.4.10 update but it never fully downloads. I'm not sure what's the deal with that as I've downloaded 300-400MB files over my internet connection at other times without difficulty.
2. I read that you can delete the folders in mail.app and let it rebuild them from the IMAP folder... a. from what I read, I'm not clear on the procedure for doing this safely b. I have a lot of folders to deal with and c. the only places I've read about it is from people commenting in forums that it didn't help them.
So... any suggestions?

At least one of the problems you have appears to be some index corruption, and I have the feeling that MailTags has a bearing on it. I don’t think you’ll be able to completely solve the problems you have without uninstalling that first...
Go to Apple Menu > System Preferences > Network, choose Network Port Configurations from the Show popup menu, and make sure that the configuration used to connect to Internet appears at the top of the list. Leave checked (enabled) only the port configuration needed to connect to Internet and Built-in Ethernet (in that order if not the same), uncheck (disable) the rest of network port configurations and see whether that helps — if it doesn’t, turn ON again the ones you want enabled.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and ensuring that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Move any “IMAP-”, “Mac-”, or “Exchange-” account folders to the Trash. Note that you can do this with IMAP-type accounts because they store mail on the server and Mail can easily re-create them. DON’T trash any “POP-” account folders, as that would cause all the mail stored there to be lost.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
Given the amount of mail you have on the server, I expect it to take a fair amount of time for Mail to fully re-create the index and bring all the mailboxes back online. Again, I strongly encourage you to uninstall MailTags before doing that.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

Signatures and Mail

I used to be able to pick and choose various signatures from a drop down menu for each sending account. This has now gone. There is a procedure to bring signatures back under the Customiseoption but a) this only works in each message sent, and 2) the drop down does not work, even thought there are several different signatures defined.
Any fixes found?

Deborah,
I was having the same problem, but after a bit of playing around I think I have it sorted.
In Mail go to your Preferences. Click on the Signature Panel. There is a drop down menu located in bottom quarter of the Signature preferences window that says *Choose Signature*. I've a feeling it defaults to None so you need to set it yourself.
Select the mail account that you want a sig to appear on, and then choose the appropriate sig text.
If you have more than one sig text applied to an account you will have the option to select "At Random" or "In Sequence" also.
I think what you are experiencing is because at the moment you have None (the default) set in *Choose Signature* and therefore you are having to select a sig text each time you compose a mail.
Hope this helps.

ICloud and Mail rules

I have set up my computer (2.66 GHz iMac core 2 duo, OSX 10.9.4) with two users to separate my fishing club activities from the rest of my life. I would like to use different MAIL RULES to sort mail on each of the user accounts. I would also like to sync some of my activities such as Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Notes between the accounts. If I link both accounts over iCloud, the MAIL RULES are synced period!! Unselecting mail for either or both accounts using the iCloud preference has no effect. To prevent syncing RULES requires signing one or the other account out of iCloud. This means, of course, that I am unable to sync Calendars, Contacts, etc. Does anyone know of a work-around for this dilemma?
Thanks in advance.
TomJF

I'm using the same Apple ID for both accounts to allow syncing.
I use QUICKEN to track finances. The main reasons I set up two users is to separate fishing club finances from my personal finances and to separate documents. At this point I have decided to combine the two accounts; sort documents; and open separate QUICKEN accounts as needed. I do think that Apple Mail needs attention to correct inconsistencies such as the one I pointed out.
Thank you for your Comments
TomJF

Imessenger and Mail auto loading on startup

Does anyone know how to stop imessenger and mail from autoloading when I start up my mac? I have mountain lion OSX. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi,
I am glad to see that William has got you sorted with the other option where the Dialogue box appears on Shut Down, Restart or Log out.
In the System Preferences > General Section is a setting about the individual windows of an app.
If this remains unticked then Messages will display the last windows that were on display at Quit.
This could be the main Messages window with the Chats and/or Buddy lists if you use it that way.
It also means if you Quit an App with the Preferences for the app showing then that window will appear on restarting the application.
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Yahoo IP's with Low SBRS and Mail delays

Hello,
Cisco IronPort has seen an increase in spam and other unwanted emails originating from IP addresses registered with and belonging to Yahoo! This spam originates mainly from Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Groups email addresses. This increase in spam has been reported by our customers through end user complaints as well as an increase in spam trap reports. The result has been a drop in the reputation of up to 5% of Yahoo’s IPs from good to the neutral range (between -2 and +1).
Cisco IronPort recommends that ESA customers throttle incoming connections from IPs with a neutral reputation score once the maximum number of connections has been reached. This results in Yahoo! IPs being throttled with the comment “Too many connections this hour”. Several customers have complained about not receiving emails from Yahoo! based not on Cisco IronPort intentionally blocking Yahoo’s IPs, but instead providing a reputation score based on the complaints we have seen and the threat of missed spam to our customers globally.
How can I avoid throttling Yahoo mail?
Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance can be configured to not throttle mail by creating custom mail flow policies and sender groups for Yahoo domain mail servers (.yahoo.com).
More information on how to create custom mail flow policies and sender groups can be found in Cisco IronPort Email Security Appliance - Configuration guide (The Host Access Table (HAT): Sender Groups and Mail Flow Policies): http://www.cisco.com/web/ironport/index.html
Note: Accepting mail from domains or mail servers with low Senderbase reputation may lead to increase in missed Spam and potentially cause performance issues.
What steps has Cisco taken to help with this issue?
We have been communicating with the appropriate contacts at Yahoo! regarding their outbound mail issue and we have been assured that they’re working on it. Cisco IronPort has been providing Yahoo! with reports and any information that could help Yahoo! get to the bottom of this. While Yahoo! has told us that they are aware of this and are working on it, we do not have the specific details of steps Yahoo! has taken. We will continue to work with Yahoo! to help them resolve this issue.
Cisco IronPort has been actively updating rules numerous times a day against spam received from Yahoo! This should help against some of the missed spam issue if the customers were to take steps to accept all emails from Yahoo! and run IronPort AntiSpam on them. We request that customers continue to submit spam messages to [email protected] or use one of our plugins (MS Outlook or Lotus Notes) to report these missed spam emails.
Best Regards,
Cisco IronPort Customer Support

I'm very interested in this as (a) we do have a small but ongoing spam issue from all of the major freemailers including Yahoo, and (b) the posting specifically names an organisation. I didn't know if this was a major taboo on the forum as in some cases it can invite all sorts of legal problems. If there are any general guidelines for posting that I've missed then please point them out.
Regards freemailers in general and the latest Yahoo issue in particular, is the problem mainly sweatshop spam or are the mails being automatically generated? Do they pass through the organisation's "official" MTA (if there is one) or are they simply emerging from some assigned IP that happens to be port 25-enabled?
I ask from the point of view of doing something via header parsing if possible, though I admit that that's hardly following the "customer hands-off" ethos of appliance ownership.
In either case thanks for the heads-up; I'm off to check my logs now.

Address book and Mail help needed

Greetings. I recently switched from Entourage to Mail. I'm having some troubles with Address Book and Mail. I hope that someone can help.
1. I can't seem to find an easy way to determine if an email address is already in the Address Book. In Entourage, if the email address is not in the address book, it gives me the option to add it with a link at the top of the mail window. How can I tell if an email address from an incoming mail is in the Address Book or not?
2. In Mail, when I right-click on a mail address that I am sure is in the Address Book, it often gives me the option to "Add to Address Book". Other times, it will give me the option to "Open in Address Book". There doesn't seem to be a pattern. Is there something that I can do to fix this inconsistency?
3. In Entourage, when adding a new email address to the address book, I can just click on the button in the mail window to do that, which automatically opens the new address, and then I can edit information and add a category. In Mail, the same functionality requires several separate steps (Add to Address Book, open Address Book, find new email address, click on edit to make changes, drag to Group). Is there some way to streamline the process in Mail?
Thanks much.

I have the same problem as #2.
I have a contact who sends me email from two addresses. However, in mail, the two address return different sender names - one is his initial "j" and the other is his full name.
This makes it annoying to sort threads by the "from" field, or search for that sender.
I added both to the address book, opened address book, and selected "merge contacts."
They merged. But in mail, they still return different sender names! Merge failed!
After merge, all the "j" emails still offer "add to address book" when i click them. When I do this, it creates a new address card, and if I merge this with the old merged card, then the email goes back to offering "add to address book" instead of updating all those emails with the sender's full name. Basically Mail is ignoring the address book just for that sender!
I tried "add to address book" -> quit mail -> open address book
There was the entry.
Then open mail,
There was the email, "open in address book" appeared and so I did.
I edited the name to match the full name.
Go back to mail. Still listed in mailbox as "j" instead of full name.
Now "add to address book" has returned to the choices!
Seems like a bug!!!

Converting report to PDF and mailing

Hi every one,
I've gone through various threads and i'm aware of the Functional module's used to
convert the report to pdf and mail it back.Like CONVERT_OTFSPOOLJOB_2_PDF, CONVERT_OTF_2_PDF and for mailing we have SEND_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1.
I've worked with this but my problem is i'm not able to convet the report output to pdf.When i'm doing this i'm getting the output of my functional module converted to pdf like the number of header and item records available for the given data in the selection screen.
Since all the threads i've gone through is converting the single internal table which has the output to pdf.
But i've got the REUSE_ALV_HIERSQL_LIST_DISPLAY, hierarchial report which as known has got two internal tables.How to the same to this kind of report....More over is it possible to convert report to pdf in online without transfering it to spool and getting the spool id to convert it to pdf.........
Any help or suggestions will surely be rewarded......
Thanks in Advance.....

Here is the complete code for you;
It Converts spool request into PDF document and emails it.
<b>http://www.sapdevelopment.co.uk/reporting/rep_spooltopdf.htm</b>
Regards,
Vishal

App store and mail won't open. Help!

Just cleaned my iMac with Clean My Mac and now my app store and mail wont open. Please help.

Delete the app from the machine, boot into recovery mode, and reinstall the OS.

App Store and mail don't work in mavericks on a Mac Pro mid 10

App Store and mail don't work in mavericks on a Mac Pro mid 10
During the day more and more functions of my MacPro (mid10) are down. Icons disappear, mail pop out every time, app store doesn't even come up, wifi connection to other devices like ipad and macbook air fails.
Any suggestion to come over this terrible upgrade?

App Store and mail don't work in mavericks on a Mac Pro mid 10
During the day more and more functions of my MacPro (mid10) are down. Icons disappear, mail pop out every time, app store doesn't even come up, wifi connection to other devices like ipad and macbook air fails.
Any suggestion to come over this terrible upgrade?

App store and Mail app are crashing in my mac air 10.9.5

All my apps are crashing and i am not able to open any of them . App store for Software update and Mail app, Photos app are all crashing. I have OS X 10.9.5 in my system. I removed Parallels trail version and also Clean My Mac app, Still i have the issue,Please help me to resolve the issue,

"CleanMyMac" purports to "clean up" "junk" files. What it really does is to corrupt the operating system and many applications.
The first thing you need to do is remove that software according to the developer's instructions. Never install it, or anything like it, again. Then see below.
If you don't already have a current backup, back up all data, then reinstall the OS.* You don't need to erase the startup volume, and you won't need the backup unless something goes wrong. If the system was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you may need the Apple ID and password you used.
If you use FileVault 2, then before running the Installer you must launch Disk Utility and select the icon of the FileVault startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name.) It will be nested below another icon with the same name. Click the Unlock button in the toolbar and enter your login password when prompted. Then quit Disk Utility to be returned to the main Recovery screen.
There are ways to back up a computer that isn't fully functional. Ask if you need guidance.
If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. The same goes for Xcode. All other data will be preserved.
*The linked support article refers to OS X 10.9 ("Mavericks"), but the procedure is the same for OS X 10.7 ("Lion") and later.

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