TS3899 Why do my iphone inbox messages disappear?

My inbox messages disappear without warning.

Where are the messages coming from?
The Messages app on the iPhone covers both messages to and from other iOS devices (Iphone, iPod Touch & iPad) over wi-fi, as well as the SMS/MMS messaging with most any cell phone. SMS/MMS messages cannot be received by the Messages app on an iPad or the iPod Touch.

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Back up all data.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail/Cache.db
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A folder should open with an item selected. Quit the application if it's running. Move the selected item to the Trash. Relaunch the application and test.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

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Why does a saved hotmail message disappear after I click on "continue creation the message? It only happens with Firefox, not with Explorer.
== This happened ==
Every time Firefox opened
== A few weeks ago

Hello Helena.
You may be having a problem with some extension or plugin that is hindering your Firefox's normal behavior. Have you tried disabling all add-ons (just to check), to see if Firefox goes back to normal?

Inbox Messages disappearing

Hi there, folks. I have 3 email accounts I use with my Mac Mail (OS 10.4.8). Two are IMAP and one is a .Mac. I've been using Mac Mail for a good year or so without problems. Recently, messages have been disappearing from my Inboxes. Usually leaving the most recent 20 or so messages intact. The disappearing emails are nowhere to be found. My host for the two IMAP accounts have no quota limits. The .Mac account seems to be fine (no messages disappearing). I've cleaned out the trash and any large attachments. But it is still doing this. Any thoughts? It's very frustrating. I'd really appreciate any insight on this issue.

Do you have another computer (either Mac or Windoze) available to you, that you can use to access the affected imap accounts? If so, are all messages displayed there? How about webmail access? If so, same question?
Are any of these messages in a different folder, that you need to click on the right-pointing triangles next to the gray globes associated with the affected accounts, to make them downward-pointing triangles, thereby expanding the accounts to show all their mail folders? Or are all these messages in the inbox? IF some of these "missing" messages are in a separate folder, they won't show up in the main inbox in Mail.app.
If you ascertain that all messages are intact in the inbox when accessed from another platform or by a different venue, and it is a case of them not being visible on this particular Mac in Mail.app, you might first try reapplying the 10.4.9 intel or PPC combo update. (I'm assuming you're at 10.4.9. Google "10.4.9 PPC combo update" or "10.4.9 intel combo update"). Why? It has been reported by a number of people over in the ichat forum that reapplying a combo update, even though the user was already at that OS minor rev level, cured their iChat problems by so doing. I suggested the combo update approach to a guy with an AddressBook problem once, and although he had actually fixed his AddressBook problem by some other means, he did say that some other annoyances that he had been experiencing went away and that the combo update seemed to make his computer run a little bit better, so you really don't have anything to lose by doing so, except maybe 15 mins of your time. I would also recommend running software update when done, just to make sure that reapplying the combo update didn't walk on any later-issued security patches. And, of course, run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility before doing the combo update.
If no joy from doing all that, at that point, I would be really tempted to delete the affected imap accounts from Mail > Preferences > Accounts. You'll get splash screens during the account deletion process reassuring you that only the local junk on your Mac is the only thing getting deleted, and the actual imap accounts, and the messages stored on the remote imap servers, will be unharmed. (This is quite different from the splash screen you get when deleting pop accounts that says you are about to delete all your saved mail). Bottom line -- read the splash screen carefully, if any doubt -- cancel out and don't delete the account -- request further guidance in this forum.
If you were to do this, be sure to write down each account's settings (imap/smtp server names, ports, SSL checkboxes statuses, authentication methods, etc.) to facilitate an easy reconstruction of the mail accounts in Mail.app.
And, after deleting the affected accounts, quit Mail.app, then relaunch it and recreate those accounts.

Mail inbox messages disappear with gmail IMAP

I've just set up an IMAP connection to my gmail account in Mail and after reading a message in my inbox, the message disappears from my inbox and I can only find the email in All Mail.
Looking in gmail, the gmail inbox still contains all of the emails that should be in it, so I know that gmail isn't filtering or archiving read emails. Additionally, on my phone my inbox shows properly so I know that my problem lies with Mail itself.
I have deleted all my rules from Mail, so I know no filtering is going on at the Mail level either.
If anybody could please help me out...
Thanks,
Shawn

Sept 6, 2011, OS 10.6.8
MAIL 4.5
Mail to one mail box only, IMAP, disappears.
Reappears on restart of Mail.
No rules set for this in preferenes.
No check box rules in Preferences seem to apply.
Others on web report same problem.
iPhone receives and shows incomeing mail for this box fine.
It happened upon resetting incoming SSL port per instructions from Web email Server firm.
This complaint in reported around the mac sites from Mail at least v. 2.5 on. Isn't anyone at Apple working on the problem??

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Why does my iphone constantly tell me my apple password is invalid and wants to reset it?

Contact itunes via https://expresslane.apple.com they should be able to help you with that

IPhone audio message disappeared

My girlfriend today sent me multiple audio messages via iMessage.
A few minutes after I recieved them, they vanished as if she never sent them. I did not have a chance to save them.
The audio files sent may/could of been used for a court case, and are of great importance.
Why did they disappear?
How do I get them back?
Thanks,
- Todd Martin

Hello, Todd.
Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
I understand that you need access to some audio files that were sent through iMessage. Audio messages sent through iMessage are set to automatically expire after two minutes unless you actively choose to save them. If you did not save them by tapping “Keep,” you will not be able to retrieve them at this point, but in the future, you can save important audio messages by tapping Keep or adjust your settings to always save the audio and video messages:
Keep an audio or video message
An audio or video message recorded and sent from Messages will expire two minutes after you play it. Before an audio or video message expires, you can tap Keep, under the message, to manually save it in Messages and to your attachments. To view your saved attachments, tap Details while viewing the conversation.
You can adjust your Messages settings so that your device will automatically save all audio and video messages. Go to Settings > Messages and change the setting for audio or video messages.
You can't keep audio and video messages longer than you keep your message history. Tap Settings > Messages > Keep Messages and increase this setting if you want to keep audio and video messages longer.
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Inbox Messages Disappear after Rebuild

My Inbox went blank after doing a Rebuild on that box. I checked under Users>Myname>Library>Mail and the Inbox was full of messages. Why can't I see them now? Any suggestions for a fix? Using 10.5.1 on a new iMac.

I came here looking for an answer to the same question.
I have a client that recently migrated from a Macbook Pro running 10.4.11 to an iMac running 10.5.1.
Things seemed OK for a week, but Mail started behaving funny: lots of duplicate messages, old messages showing up in the Inbox (from 2005, 2006), old spam, etc.
I went to remove the Envelope Index file, and Mail went to "re-import" the messages on the next startup. It stayed stuck on 0 of 45000 (estimate) and then finally crashed.
I put the Envelope Index file back in, and started again. Kept getting the exclamation point on the Inbox, with a message indicating that the mailbox was locked on the server side (strange, since this is the only machine accessing it).
I decided to try a Rebuild of the Inbox file.
Everything vanished.
I went into the Inbox mail file, and saw there was a folder called "Messages" and another called "Messages-1".
"Messages" only had 4 messages in it - the 4 that downloaded after the Rebuild function wiped everything. "Messages-1" had about 3000+ messages in it, which seemed to appear OK when I looked at the dates.
However, after I reimported the messages using the import feature in Mail, I had a few from today, and the rest were from October 24th and before. None were dated in the last 2 months (or few days for that matter).
I've been on hold with Support for over an Hour, and I guess I'm going to give up. This is pretty bad though. I can piece back most of the messages from the previous migration, and pull from the last 2 weeks on the server, but I can't believe I witnessed the Messages folder get wiped in front of my eyes (the second time).

Apple Mail inbox message disappear after a week

I have a brand new iMac running 10.8.2. I am using the Apple Mail program to view emails from an AT&T DSL account.
The emails just disappear after a certian time and I can not find any setting for this in preferences (note this is not deleted e-mail, but rather all email in my inbox) As of 4/3, the oldest email is dated 3/27 in my inbox.
The emails are on the AT&T server still, and my old iMac is also receiving them and not removing them.
How do I change this please?

Quit Mail.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click the text on the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A Finder window will open with a file selected. Move the selected file to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have names that begin with "Envelope Index". Move those files, if any, to the Trash. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is corrupt and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the file you moved to the Desktop. If you get a warning that the file is in use when you try to empty the Trash, log out and log back in.

Why is my iphone sending messages from my email and not my number?

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Hello therealdeal333,
Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you're only able to send iMessages using your Apple ID (email address) on your iPhone. If you're not able to send iMessages using your phone number, first try signing out of iMessage and FaceTime on your iPhone:
Go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive, tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
Go to Settings > FaceTime, tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
If you send iMessages from other devices (such as a Mac or iPad), sign out of those as well.
Then sign back in on your iPhone:
On your iPhone first, sign back in to iMessage and Facetime.
Sign back in to iMessage and Facetime on your other devices (if necessary.)
You can find the steps I quoted above, as well as more troubleshooting help, at this link:
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Best Regards,
Jeremy

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Thank you for any help offered.

Yes they can. Connect your iPhone to your computer, open itunes, click on info and click on sync contacts. Alternatively you can go to your phone settings, iCloud and deselect the contacts option. A dialogue box or whatever that thing is should come up, select keep on my iPhone. Wait a few minutes and reselect it again and choose merge when it asks you to. Let me know if that solves your problem. It happened to me on my iPhone 4s and I just fixed it a few minutes ago.
Jamal.

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TS3899 Why do my iphone inbox messages disappear?

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