The interactive responsiveness of my Mac Mail has gone to **** since I installed Lion last week. I can type a whole line ahead before it echos the characters. What's with that?

The interactive responsiveness of my Mac Mail has gone to **** since I installed Lion last week. I can type a whole line ahead before it echos the characters. What's with that?

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    Hello everyone,
    My macbook pro v.10.7.5 mail is having some major tantrums.
    Firstly it won't let me delete any of my mail in eith of my accounts (home & uni)
    I get the following message:
    "The IMAP command “UID COPY” (to Deleted Messages) failed for the mailbox “INBOX” with server error: Error copying message(s)."
    This only started yesterday -  have searched and searched for some answers but only seem to find a lot of other people having the same issue.
    Secondly my mac now won't let me receive any mail. I send (and hear the familiar 'swoosh' sound) but can not SEE my sent items (they do not come up in the sent box) and having tried to email myself i now can not receive any mail (having also tried to sign up to a site and waiting for a confirmation email, which has yet to arrive)
    I'm about to go a little mad as I am in desperate need of my mail to work properly - as I'm sure everyone who is experiencing problems is!
    Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
    Yours sincerely,
    On-the-verge-of-madness-mac-user
    PRK.

    If you are using IMAP only (so your email messages are still on the server) you can start with a fresh Mail setup.
    In Finder under the "Go" menu, select "Go To Folder..." and enter:
    ~/library
    In that folder there will be a "Mail" folder.  Make sure you don't have Mail running and rename that "Mail" folder to something else, like "Mail backup".  Now run the Mail app again and setup your e-mail account.  It will create a new "Mail" folder in the library folder and redownload all your e-mails.
    If for some reason that does fix the problem you can get rid of the newly created "Mail" folder and rename the "Mail backup" folder to "Mail" and you will be back where you started.

  • TS4002 My Mac mail has disappeared from my iPhone and iPad - any idea how I get it back?

    My Mac mail has disappeared from my iPhone and iPad - any idea how I get it back?

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  • Mac Mail has a gray gear that constantly spins behind the email address

    Mac Mail has a gray gear that constantly spins behind the email address , does this mean it has trouble connecting?
    I have 3 emails i receive in Mail and only one that constantly has the spinning gray gear is with google apps.
    Im using the free version, and it has worked great for a year.
    I tried to send a video and it ended up in my recovery box as 50 copies.
    I deleted the recovery mailbox and the account im having problems with.
    After deleting, i manually aded it again.
    I can receive mail.
    I have also followed advice given in a forum that said to go to: https://www.google.com/a/priestlaketech.com/UnlockCaptcha
    My ISP has a monthly allowed bandwidth cap and im close to exceeding it, i suspect that its because mail is trying to pick up mail all the time.
    Thank you for any tips you might have,
    Sungreens

    Hello Roger
    Thank you for your reply but I don't think it answers my problem. You see it is not my Apple ID Account that has been hacked. I use the Internet provider company known as Westnet in Australia and my email addresses all end in Westnet.com.au
    The fake email address that was created is as below:
    [email protected]
    What I want to know is the IP address and location where this email address was created so that I can narrow down the list of suspects
    claytonfromwa

  • Is there a way to limit the frequency of the "autosaving drafts" feature in Mac Mail on Lion?

    Using Mail Version 5.0 (1244.2/1244.3)
    On MacBook Pro with Lion 10.7.1
    Wondering if Is there a way to limit the frequency of the "autosaving drafts" feature in Mac Mail on Lion?
    Looked all thru preferences and googled the crap out of this and can't seem to find the answer I want.
    Basically, I have my mailbox behaviors set up exactly the way I want them. (ie deleted messages get saved to my "Trash" folder on the server) I do not think I should have to change them, but because of the autosave feature saving almost every 3 characters typed, I have an over abundance of versions saved in my Trash folder. This problem would be solved were there a preference somewhere I could select to save drafts "manually only" or "opened messages save when quitting" or something along those lines.
    Is this a preference setting already that I am missing?
    I would settle for a rule, just not sure what perameters should be set for this to work.
    Help

    Typically a server has a settable parameter to limit concurrent connections. Check the server's documentation.

  • HT1277 Mail has gone crazy. Header's and messages are mixed up. New Mac Book Pro. Migrated files from Time machine running snow leopard. Reinstall or new computer needed?

    Mail has gone crazy. Header's and messages are mixed up. New Mac Book Pro. Migrated files from Time machine running snow leopard. Reinstall or new computer needed?

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    Failing the attempted second migration, I'd try a different tactic.  Does your existing (old) system work?   If so, I'd bypass the backup and connect an external (scratch) USB disk drive to the (old) sstem and then boot and use Disk Utility booted from the installer DVD disk or boot and use Disk Utility from the recovery partition or booted from a recovery partition created on some other external storage (details here vary by the OS X version and what hardware you have), and perform a full-disk backup of your original internal disk to (scratch) external storage.  (Make sure you get the source and target disks chosen correctly here; copying the wrong way — from the scratch disk to your existing disk — will clobber your data!)  In esssence, this will clone your existing boot disk.  Then dismount the (formerly-scratch) external disk, transfer it over to the new system, and use it as the source of the migration, by performing a fresh OS X installation on the new system.
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  • Problem wit auto response on my .mac mail -- keeps sending.

    I set up an auto response for my mac mail address.  I then sent myself an email to see if the auto response was working.  It works, except it works like spam.  It just automatically kept sending me email after email after email, up to 20 of them.  So I closed out my email on my computers, then reopened, and they started auto sending again.
    I've been having an issue with mail doing this.  I had an app on iPhone and then deleted the app.  I kept getting automatic mail sent to me that was like I sent an email to THEM, except I never did.  I would get up to 250 emails as fast as they could be sent BING BING BING BING. 
    Happens anywhere I get .mac and .me mail.
    Anyone know why the auto responder went whacko? LOL
    Thanks

    So, if I'm understanding correctly, you're not currently having this problem, but did before you set up iCloud?  Or is your old MobileMe auto-responder still functioning, but not showing up in iCloud in Mail's rules or vacation message settings?  If the latter, you'll need to contact Apple about that, so they can fix it on their end.
    I don't remember how it worked in MobileMe, but in iCloud, you can set up some very basic rules and there is a separate setting for a vacation message.  An auto-responder provided by the server like that ought to be okay-ish.  It shouldn't create mail loops, since the people who wrote the code for it know their stuff when it comes to e-mail protocols.  However, if you used a rule that you created yourself (which doesn't look possible on iCloud, as there's not a "reply" action), that could cause mail loops.
    Of course, even the best auto-responder is only okay-ish, because there are going to be messages that you get that you wouldn't want it to reply to, but it's going to anyway.  Like spam that didn't get caught by spam filters.
    As to the forums, I'd guess this would be best posted in one of the iCloud forums, probably the iCloud on my Mac forum.  I can ask the hosts to move this topic there, but in the future, what you want to do is go to the home page and scroll down to the list of "communities" (ie, forums) and select one first.
    Thanks for the info on how you posted...  many of us regulars have been wondering why so many misplaced posts have been showing up in this forum lately!  That's valuable information that we can use to alert the hosts to a potential problem with the interface of the site.

  • Mac Mail has stopped wrapping paragraphs 3 days after installing Maverick.  How do I fix this?

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  • My mac mail has stopped recognising my Virginmedia passwords.

    My mac mail has stopped recognising my Virginmedia passwords.  Virgin have tried to resolve the issue and created new passwords.  However, all are rejected by the Apple servers even though there is no problem with Virgin web mail.  What can I do?

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  • HT201342 Where is the from field in a Mac mail message?

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  • How do I replicate the folders I have in Mac Mail on my iPhone?

    Apologies if this is covered elsewhere on the forum - I have searched but couldn't find what I was looking for.
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