Strange Lion Mail Issue

When Lion merged the mail accounts from Show Leopard it appears to have two emails in a gmail account that aren't actually there. It shows a 2, but no mails are present. My iphone account is fine so its some problem with the merge from gmail. I deleted the account and it still finds the 2 emails which are invisible there. Any ideas?

I solved the problem. Because I was using Gmail, Mac Mail is actually a copy of what's on Google. So I went to Library/mail and deleted the current mail folder and rebuilt the Mac mail boxes. Problem solved!

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Having some MBA 13' mail issues:
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2) starting up a new email or new note then closing this note or email will close the entire message viewer window...why?
3) emails deleted within the 'inbox' section will not delete in the Gmail section (setup as IMAP, with Gmail defaults)
I am a little concerned with 1 & 2 becuase these are huge user experience issues, it is the most frustrating thing to have to continually use the short cut to open up a window which should not have disappeared in the first place!!
any help would be appreciated, thanks in advance!

Hi Fred
I've got the same issue. It seems to happen randomly but so annoying when it does. Upgrading to Mountain Lion hasn't helped and I've changed my keyboard and reset all the short-cuts to the default settings and still it happens in Mail and Microsoft Outlook for Mac when I'm typing a mail.
Did you find a solution?

Mountain Lion Mail Issue

I have just upgraded to Mountain Lion. Since upgrade I now have a problem with Mail v6.0 it works perfectly fine with two WPA Personal and WPA2 Personal WiFi networks, but not at all with my Uni WPA/WPA2 Enterprise network. I get internet connection but cannot receive or send mail. I have refreshed the networks. I have reinstalled the software. I have Used Connection Doctor but it says I have internet (green light) but get red for all mail pop and smtp accounts. I am baffled why it works perfectly fine on personal networks only.
I am considering unloading Mountain Lion as no-one at Apple phone support or in the Apple store can explain or fix it.

A_K_I_L wrote:
I was responding to mende1 suggestion.
My Mac Issue:
I have just upgraded to Mountain Lion. Since upgrade I now have a problem with Mail v6.0 it works perfectly fine with two WPA Personal and WPA2 Personal WiFi networks, but not at all with my Uni WPA/WPA2 Enterprise network. I get internet connection but cannot receive or send mail. I have refreshed the networks. I have reinstalled the software. I have Used Connection Doctor but it says I have internet (green light) but get red for all mail pop and smtp accounts. I am baffled why it works perfectly fine on personal networks only.
Yes, I know. But the better you explain the situation, the more likely someone will understand what is going on and be able to help. You just copied and pasted what you wrote before, which I asked for clarification about.
There is nothing about Mountain Lion that is going to restrict your network connections. Mountain Lion may be interacting with your university network better and implementing university restrictions that were broken before. It may be just a coincidence of timing.
You mentioned POP accounts with your ISP. Most POP accounts are stricted to their home network. This is because they usually aren't secure. Every time you check your e-mail you are broadcasting your password. The default SMTP configuration has no security settings either. It is standard for networks to block this default activity. You are blaming Mountain Lion but it sure sounds like your university network and Mountain Lion are operating correctly. Such default e-mail setting are supposed to be blocked. They are doing you a favour.
Get the secure e-mail settings for your e-mail from your ISP. Use IMAP instead of POP. Both IMAP and SMTP can be configured to use secure ports and will require your account name and password. Once you use these settings, your Mail will work from anywhere.

Lion Mail Issue

When I open a new message, mail inserts my signature. I start typing, hit enter to create a new paragraph and the cursor jumps below the signature. The only way of dropping a line is to type a couple of characters, click behind these and then hit enter. I then have to go back to delete the couple of characters.
This seems like a bug to me. I have checked the preferences under compose and Signatures and can find nothing obvious.
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I am having the same problem... Thats really annoying...
The font issue, from the last OS wasn´t corrected too (I was expecting that). Windows users continue to receive my emails with different fonts all the time.
But this signature issue is terrible! Apple must fix it right away!!!

New Lion e-mail issues

Since up grading to new Lion I am having e-mail issue.
I will not recognize any passwords from outside accounts even though they are correct?
I have reset in system pop preferences and still does not work.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Rainer 1035

That could be the problem for now.
My carrier is Verizon...
My apologies for not listing that..
Thank you for your response.
It is very much appreciated.
Craig

"Slow typing in Mail" issue continues in Lion

The "Slow typing in Mail" issue continues in Lion. Has anyone found a fix yet?

Well, when typing in MAIL, the letters manifest VERY SLOWLY. I am know ACE typist, and it can't keep up with me. I type even a few characters, and wait for several seconds for my textual desires to appear.
This was well discussed under Snow Leopard, I see.
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IMAP issues in Lion Mail.app?

Hello...I've been dealing with a snarky email issue with Lion Mail.app for several months. The issue is that Lion Mail does not have the same email counts as the corresponding web mail server for that account shows, either grand total, or folder by folder.
Snow Leopard Mail, and Tiger Mail DO agree with the web server, and Thunderbird 8.0 installed in Lion does agree exactly with web mail.
Based on these observations, a lot of testing, and several deleting of email accounts and re-setting them up again, my feeling is that there is something wrong with Lion Mail.app's ability to handle IMAP
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ray

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I had the same problem with Yahoo! Mail but even worse I found that I simply could not send any mail at all. The problem only arose this week after installing the new (1.1.4) software upgrade.
I had originally set up Yahoo! Mail using the option given on the Mail screen and it worked perfectly until the upgrade, which may just have been coincidental, I suppose. But I was then unable to send any mail at all. I deleted the e-mail account and then reapplied it but not by opting for the Yahoo! option on Mail and instead set it up as an 'Other' POP account, being sure to deactivate SSL and instead go for Password verification. From what I gather this is just how you would set up a Yahoo! Mail account for MacMail and this basically applies the advice that BT gives for Yahoo! Mail users with a Mac.
It then worked fine, but I lost the really cool real-time sync with Yahoo! Mail which I had had previously.
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Yahoo! Mail glitches with Lion mail client and Address Book app

I had really been looking forward to using my Yahoo! mail account in the Lion mail client but now that it is here and I have set it up and used it for a few days I am noticing the following issues:
New mail is not always received or is received late. Yahoo! Webmail portal shows new items but these sometimes do not appear in Lion mail client even after a manual 'get mail' check.
Mail marked as read in Yahoo! Webmail portal or in mail clients in iOS devices such as iPhone or iPad is not marked as read in Lion mail client, however the reverse does work (i.e. mail marked as read in Lion mail client does mark the message as read in webmail and in clients on iOS devices).
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Thanks
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i've had the same experience here.
essentially it seems like lion mail.app just takes an incredibly long time to pickup new changes from the IMAP server at yahoo.
ios and webmail are obviously much quicker.
if it is working on ios, why does is it so delayed in mail?
any solutions out there?

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Hi,
I recently started using Lion and feel that Mail search has been downgraded. In Snow Leopard, I could search for an "excerpt"/"character subset" of an email address, but this does not work in Lion, and when I called Apple Care about this issue, they confirmed this is proper operation of Lion Mail search and didn't seem to think this was an issue of concern.
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Snow Leopard Mail search had no problem searching for subset character strings. e.g. doing a search for "rkans" (including full text search) brings up zero emails in Lion, whereas it worked perfectly fine in Snow Leopard. I'm also not pleased with the loss of the scroll bar arrow buttons in Lion... :/
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beethovengirl wrote:
Thanks for your reply! To what extent does Apple listen to such feedback?
I am sure they will read it, but it's impossible to know whether they will take action. I would guess that having a large number of people ask for something increases the chances.
For questions relating to how Mountain Lion behaves you should ask in its forum:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion

After Updating Mountain Lion, Mail & Safari keep crashing; WLAN Connection fails

After Updating Mountain Lion, Mail & Safari keep crashing; WLAN Connection fails;
I have updatet Mountain Lion and since then, Mail & Safari keep crashing plus: WLAN Connections keeps on failing from time to time.
My Router has the newest firmware, i am clueless what to do.
I even cannot shut down my mac properly.

Hello you all,
I also had the problem of a disconnecting wifi while my imac was sleeping. I did not have the reconnecting issue after sleep, but the lost connection issue during sleep which made it impossible to reach my imac for things like homesharing, apple tv or remote desktop. I have a late 2012 iMac with a clean ML 10.8.2 on it and wirelessly connected to an apple time capsule (same as an airport extreme). My partner has a mid 2007 iMac, also with an ML 10.8.2 on it.
I tried every single solution I could find on the internet, such as changing the router's security from wpa2 to wpa, changing the MTU from automatic to manual 1453, router reboots, re-installations, re-configurations, keychain clean-ups, everything.
Eventually I solved my problem with these steps and now it works as a charm. I can still find the iMac with the remote app, even after 12 hours of sleep:
My time capsule router is set on automatic MTU and encrypted with WPA2 and I use the 5Ghz network!
1. Cleaned all the wifi passwords in keychain on my iMac
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Hi,
Any help with this issue will be very much appreciated.
I have just updated to Mountain Lion, it seems to work ok aside from "Mail signatures".
I am creating a new signature for my company and noticed that in Mountain Lion, mail creates a new signature with the .mailsignature file type. When I try to replace it with my .webarchive file, it does not work. Has anyone figured out a way to get my HTML signature into Mail?

Follow this link.. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1413326

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I'm having a very strange mail issue. Sometimes when I send an email with attachments all the attachments don't get to the recipient. It's happend twice, jpg's and a pdf were mailed one or the other get dropped. Recipient replied asking for the other attachments...

I researched this problem in the forums and found a solution that sort of works to restore the paperclips. I copied it for anyone who has the same problem.
1 - Create a rule in the Mail Preferences pane
2 - Call it "Get My Paperclip Icons Back!"
3 - Set conditions as below :
A - If ALL of the following conditions are met :
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C - Any Attachment Name Contain "." [with the quotations around the dot]
Perform the following actions :
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Click Ok. When message "Do you want to apply your rules to messages in selected mailboxes?" I chose "Dont Apply". [But you can click "Apply" if you are in the "Sent Folder"
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Voilla! Paperclip icons are back. Plus "Mark as Read" did no harm to your already colored/flagged sent emails.
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