Strange "fix" for Mail-crashes?

Hiya. I had the same problems as many others have with Mail crashing soon after hitting the 'get msgs.' button. I tried numerous times and finally came to this discussion group and tried the suggestions offered to no avail. I gave up and DL'd Mozilla's mail-app. After installation and setting, I hit the 'get mail' button and got more than a thousand messages! All of the letters were from the day I set up this Mac a few months ago to the day I crashed. I deleted everything which took a LONG time cuz I had received a lot of music from my brother and that involved quite a few mbs. After the deletions, all was okay for correspondence. That was yesterday and this morning before opening Mozilla, I opened Mail to see if there was any change and to my surprise it worked okay just like before the crashes! I can only assume that somewhere on the Mac or my server those 1000+ letters were never completely deleted and clogged up Mail to cause the crashes. I gave it an enema??? Hope this "fix" helps someone out there. Regards, jym

sydchesson wrote:
So Alex. What is the fix??
SydChesson
I followed what was suggested on:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1328036&tstart=0
i.e.
**+Along with a standard Repair from Server Admin, this command did it:+**
**+/etc/postfix/post-install upgrade-configuration+**
**+It looks like the OS X upgrade missed a config in postfix that broke imap. I'm not sure how closely this relates to your issue, but hopefully it helps someone. It worked for me.+**
That almost fixed it. Thanks to EEFranklin.
I found that I also had to do a:
sudo postfix reload
Then it all came back happy again.
Cheers,
Syd Chesson

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sydchesson wrote:
So Alex. What is the fix??
SydChesson
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