Weird Mail Behavior

Last night working on MacBook Pro noticed inbox only showing mail from one person. When I turned on computer this morning, all new email went into a mailbox rather than the inbox? I searched forum for similiar problems but didn't find any.
Thanks, Doug

Problem went away on its own.

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Mail behavior

I've been experiencing some rather weird Mail behavior for the longest with the following issues, so i'm trying to finally resolve.
1)Drafts - i'm noticing that composed messages that autosave as drafts during composition remain in the drafts folder even after I send them, (unless I manually go into the drafts folder and delete them). I've noticed this across all 3 accounts i have configured in Mail (2 Gmail, one GoDaddy, all IMAP)
2) Sent items with larger attachments - i've noticed this mostly on my GoDaddy accounts, sent emails that contain larger attachments will kick back to me as Recovered Items, despite them being successfully sent to email recipients. Additionally these emails rarely copy over to my sent items folder, however if I send an email with no attachment those have no problem copying over.
I always dismissed this as just some of the limitations of the Mail app, but perhaps there are some ways to fix these issues.
Any suggestions?

just double checking. still experiencing these issues, and they are quite annoying.

Odd Junk Mail Behavior

I've been experiencing odd Junk Mail behavior on my Mac; I've got the Mail app set so it puts the emails it thinks is Junk in the Junk folder. I do this because I've noticed that certain legitimate emails keep ending up in the Junk folder automatically.
I've also noticed that some of the emails in the Junk folder have not actually been flagged as Junk Mail, they were not colored brown by the Junk Mail rule and there is no button available to tell Mail it's not Junk. How do I stop Mail from flagging something as Junk when it doesn't seem to tag it as Junk but it still ends up in the Junk folder?
I see emails tagged as Junk in the Junk folder that are legit, so I click the "Not Junk" button and move them back to the proper mail folder. But the next time I get mail from the same source, it gets flagged and tagged as Junk again. I thought the Mail app learns from the training we give it. How do I resolve this situation?
I've already set the Junk filtering to not filter emails from recipients who are in my Address Book.

Either you’ve messed with the Preferences > Junk Mail > Advanced settings, or those settings have become corrupt, or you have one or more rules that have a bearing on this.
Assuming it isn’t the latter, try this:
1. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, disable junk mail filtering, then enable it again. This resets the rule that governs what the junk filter does.
2. Choose either Training or Automatic mode (it doesn’t matter) and leave the other options checked. Click Advanced to see how the junk filter rule is defined now if you want, but don’t touch anything there.
3. Reset the junk filter database (Preferences > Junk Mail > Reset).

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I have noticed a weird 'mail activity' in my Mail 8.2 when I start up my Mail - I only noticed it recently, so I assume it's there since the latest update, but of course I cannot be sure. Has anyone else noticed this? It looks like some developer forgot to label a particular activity properly. :-)

Hello, are these IMAP or POP accounts? I suspect POP.
In Mail>Preferences>Accounts, highlight one account, click advanced tab, is Remove from Server after downloading unchecked?

IPhone 6 Plus weird screen behavior

I recently started noticing some erratic touch behavior on my screen, it's as if I have a possessed phone such as taps that I did not make, or swipes (up/down/left/right) as well. The spotlight randomly swipes down, or the notification center (it seems like a consistent swipe down behavior but at different locations). I couldn't swipe left yesterday to unlock my phone, and sometimes hangs and only locking/unlocking can fix the unresponsiveness.
Moreover, random tappings affect games and apps such as whatsapp, where it goes to the previous page due to a top left page tap, and then again on the edit button, then starts randomly scrolling up and down and tapping random parts of the screen.
This is quite frustrating, I tried formatting and starting the phone as a new one and only installed Whatsapp, but the problem persisted, albeit at fewer occurrences.
Now I noticed the problem again even though I'm on iOS 8.1, with only apps, music, and photos synced back from iTunes. What is happening ? How can I get this fixed ?
Summary
Issue :
Erratic touch behavior which cannot be produced on demand
Rare screen unresponsiveness following the weird touch behavior
What I've tried :
Reset and start phone as New
Reset all Settings
Hard Reset
Currently using a sketching app to see how the screen taps randomly (for proof as well).

Hello zazu90,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To troubleshoot this issue where your touchscreen is behaving erradically on your iPhone, please follow the steps below.
Restart your device
Hold the On/Off button until "slide to power off" appears. Slide to power off your device. When it is off, press the On/Off button to turn it back on.
If you can't restart your device, reset it by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for a least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
Clean the screen with a soft, slightly damp, lint-free cloth.
Avoid using the device while wearing gloves, with wet hands, or immediately after applying hand lotion.
If you have a protective case, or if you are using a plastic sheet or film on the display, try removing them and testing the device without it.
If the steps above don't resolve your issue, please schedule a service appointment with an Apple Retail Store for evaluation. If an Apple Retail store is not an option, contact Apple to find out your best service option or see the Service FAQ for your product.
iPhone, iPad, iPod touch: Troubleshooting touchscreen response - Apple Support
Take care,
Alex H.

Weird Gmail behavior in Mail

I have an e-mail account hosted by my IP and they farm out e-mail to Google Gmail rather than handling it themselves. It appears that I can receive e-mails from everyone else accept from accounts I have hosted by another IP service (with one exceptoin which I'll note shortly). I discovered this when I sent my wife a file to edit and she sent it back — but it was never received. The URL being hosted by the IP that farms e-mail out to Gmail originated from another IP and was transferred.
By way of example, here's what works sending mail to [email protected] (this is the account hosted by the IP service that farms e-mail out to Gmail)
[email protected] > [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected]
However, nothing from any other accounts hosted by my other IP service (from which I originally purchased the myURL.com which is acting flakey) is ever received by [email protected]
[email protected] > [email protected]
I've checked all of the Gmail settings in the troubled address ([email protected]) and they are the same as my directly Gmail hosted address ([email protected]).
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions — they would be appreciated because I'm slowly going insane trying to figure this one out.

I don't know for sure this is what will work, but set up separate SMTP servers for each Gmail account, using your specific logins for each.
On the Account page in Preferences, Account Information, select Edit SMTP Server List from the Outgoing mail Server (smtp) popup menu.
Copy the current one for Gmail and edit it to use the necessary login information.
For each account, select the desired smtp server and set the checkbox to only use that server.
When you reply or compose a new message, make sure From indicates the correct account.

Apostrophes trigger weird backspace behavior in Mail

I upgraded to Mavericks a couple of days ago, and since then I've had the weirdest and most annoying problem in my Mail app (and ONLY in my Mail app):
If I type a contraction ending in "re", (example: we're, they're), the spacebar sends the cursor back one character instead of adding a space after the word. So, it deposits the cursor back beteween the "re".
If I form a contraction with any other letter combination (I'll, he'd, it's), the spacebar does nothing on the first strike. I have to hit it twice to get a space after the word. At all other times, the spacebar functions normally.
I've tried turning off spelling checks on my global keyboard preferences, and on Mail.app preferences; I've tried restarting the app and my MacBook. Nothing helps. And since I'm not a very formal writer, it bites me in the *** approximately seventy thousand times a day.
Is there any way to cure this disease?

Are you sure that the "smart quotes" box really fixed the problem? I have the same problem, but what happens is that when I type an apostrophe, it is at first a straight apostrophe, until I hit the space bar after the word in which I used it, at which time the straight apostrophe turns into a "smart" (i.e., slanted) apostrophe, and the cursor jumps back to the end of the word that was just autocorrected from straight to smart apostrophe.
Turning off smart quotes indeed prevents the backspace, but it does so by *not* turning the straight apostrophe into a slanted apostrophe. So yeah, it prevents the annoying backspace, but at the cost of functionality. How has apple not fixed this after all these months? Does mail just not misbehave this way for most people?

WEIRD... NEW.... OSX... Mail Behavior

In the past release, I've noticed that mail in OS X Mail is received
as "chunks", wherein the received mail text is surrounded by a box
with a "cancel" X in one corner. This box prevents me from editing
within it to put in reply text after the text I'm actually responding
to.
I can only put text before or after that "chunk".
Is this a result of some new feature, or a format I'm not aware of?
And what's the point of it? How do I get around it so I can edit
within that "chunk"?
TIA!
Mark

I was having the exact same problem when replying to email, with a box appearing around text that made editing very difficult and frustrating. Your solution of Format > Make Plain Text resolved the problem completely. *Thank you!!!*

Strange Mail Behavior when cicking reply to

I am having a very different but very strange behavior when in mail 5.2 I click on reply or forward in my menu bar a new mail window opens up and quickly moves off to the right of the screen and disappears laving my inbox. I cannot find where they are going and the only way I can respond is open the mail in a new window. This is weird I have been using mail forever and never seen this before?
any suggestions???
mac os 10.7.4
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So Mail doesn’t really crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly). Rather, it freezes (i.e. becomes unresponsive), right?
What type of mail account is this (POP, IMAP, .Mac)?
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Weird keyboard behavior in MacBook Pro 13'

Hi guys, I have a MacBook Pro that's starting to show a strange keyboard behavior.
The problem is that the keys: e r t y u i o (curiously all belong to the same row) sometimes get unresponsive.
It's very annoying of course and it happened about 4 months after upgraded to Lion.
The geneal perfomance of the laptop was deteriorated and I've read that a clean install of Lion might help so I've did it thinking that it will also fix any OS weirdness about the keys too.
The machine works way better after the clean Lion install but the problem of those same keys persist.
What I did next was to reset the PRAM thinking it might be interference from some weird state there. But after the reset the problem persisted.
Curiously, I've figured out that when, for example the i key gets unresponsive, if I press AND hold the e key then the i key works totally fine (think of typing an "I" but using e instead of shift).
If, when pressing the unresponsive keys, I use different angles or quantity of force in the pressure of the keys or cornes of the key the behavior stays the same. The only thing that seems to affect is holding the e key down before pressing it. Every time it gets weird I do it and it kind of get normal for a while.
Also, sometimes, keeping some seconds the unresponsive key ends up getting responsive again (but not always).
This mac has about two years now and it's very well preserved.
Do this happen to anyone? ideas?
Is there some other thing than PRAM I could reset to see if it gets normal again?

You are making me dig into nightmare-ish memories here.
Ok, I'll share.
This is how turned out:
Needed to send my MBP to another town with an Apple authorized service provider and asked to change the keyboard for a new one.
It was ~20 days waiting until they got the new keyboard part from Apple and about ~3 more to get it fixed and ~2 more to get it again in town.
I received it very well packaged and all was fine after that but the whole thing was very expensive, ~40% of the price I paid for the whole MPB in the first place plus all that time without being able to use it.

Weird Battery Behavior in 7.1.1

Has anyone else noticed weird behavior after upgrading to 7.1.1 - on my 5s its not that the battery is draining quickly - in fact its showin 5 hours 40 minutes usage with 75% remaining - which i find hard to believe
whats weird is standby time equals the usage time but i have turnd off and aback on the iPhone - I even did a hard reset - i have a monitor program which is showing the cpu as mostly idling at 90% or more ( although the monitor probably doesnt know about the M7 chip - it probably doesnt even know about the A7 chip too)
The battery percentage is not going down quickly - it seems to be thr same rate as with 7.1 but i dont believe these numbers
Im going to let the battery drain completely and do a battery calibration - that some times helps after IOS upgrades
But i was wondering if anyone else was seeing this and had any suggestions

Grant Hiesterman wrote:
Out of curiousity, how were the issues fixed/resolved other the past? With IOS updates? Other?
The problem has always been an errant app that got stuck in a loop. It can happen any time, but is more likely to happen right after an update. My hypothesis is that the update process suspends running apps, and sometimes after the update they "lose their place" and spin their wheels trying to find it. (It's easier to say it that way then to talk about race conditions.) What will frequently fix it is to run the battery all the way down until the phone shuts off. This terminates all processes, even those that cannot be killed from the Quick Launch screen.
You can also try to find the app; if it's email turning off any Push email accounts, rebooting, and turning them back on will frequently fix it. If it's a 3rd party app killing all apps in the Quick Launch will frequently fix it.
Sometimes just turning off the phone for a few minutes will fix it.
Restoring the phone as new will usually fix it, but restoring from backup may not, because the app state may be preserved in the backup.
It really just a matter of trying things like these one at a time. One of them will work.
Do you or Trevor have a CPU monitoring app you believe is a quality application?
I've tried several, and haven't found any that I like. I like Trevor's answer.

Not a real problem anymore, but a weird Apache behavior wrt .php files

Hello everyone. Yesterday I was trying to set up an ordinary LAMP server in my VPS, running Arch (first time ever touching apache). After all was said and done, and apache and PHP were correctly configured following the Arch Wiki, I tried to get some things like phpmyadmin and ampache running, but I found out that my browser was asking me to download either a login.php file or an index.php file (to be more specific: I added a test.php file in /srv/http and that was interpreted correctly and I could see all the information as intented; if i pointed my browser to /phpmyadmin or /ampache though I would see the first page but after trying to, for example, logging in with phpmyadmin I'd get the download prompt). I googled around and yes, everything was configured as it should have, I had the AddHandler directive in the apache conf file and all that jazz. This morning, I log in, I start apache (since it wasn't working I figured that I might as well shut it down for the night and yes, while testing and setting up things yesterday I restarted the daemon every time) and everything works as it should: ampache lets me create my configuration, phpmyadmin lets me see my DBs and everything works. So, the problem apparently fixed itself, or at least the weird behavior I was witnessing is no more. Is there any specific reason for this? I wouldn't want to start from scratch (and I probably will, since I like to mess up a lot, that's how i learn!) to perhaps find myself in this spot again and not know what to do!
Last edited by mrz87 (2011-05-11 09:12:21)

This was a problem with apache-2.2.17-2. Don't worry, it's fixed for good.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/24208

Weird keyboard behavior PS CS3

Hi all,
Every now and then it seems like my keyboard has gone nuts.
This always happens inside PS CS3. After doing some actions, especially when doing a 'Shift-Alt-Arrow key' action (duplicating a layer or group and moving), it looks as if the keyboard goes in some sort of 'Alt-Always-On' modus.
The annoying thing about this is, that regular keyboard-shortcuts for selecting a tool don't work (pressing 't' for the type tool does nothing) but far worse is the fact when you want to move a layer or group of layers they get unwantedly duplicated.
Sometimes this behavior seems to disappear, when I click around my desktop (outside of Photoshop), but sometimes it doesn't disappear. The only thing left to get rid of it is to quit and relaunch PS.
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Zeno,
I feel so stupid, but that also crossed my mind.
And to be honest, I think that is really the reason.
Why didn't I think of that before...

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I have been trying to compress some animation material for DVD. It is mostly flat colors with black outlines. The past few weeks I've been having trouble exporting to compressor via Final Cut (the connect to background process bug) and so I have been using reference movies loaded into Compressor standalone.
I am seeing weird behavior, though. When I compress the reference movie, the frames look fine although every now and then there are artifacts, pieces of the image that break down. I think of them as compression errors, and I suspected that the compression markers at the beginning of each clip were not being exported in the reference movie.
So I tried a few things and finally got Final Cut to connect to compressor directly. This worked in that the compression errors I was seeing are gone--HOWEVER, the overall quality of the encode has decreased markedly! The black lines around shapes are all jagged, and the whole image looks inferior to the one compressed in Compressor standalone.
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I got leopard for Christmas and on the first day of the install my icons on the right side of the dock- i guess the stacks for applications and downloads icons look weird. It's not a combination of all the icons in the stack like someone else wrote, it is a weird green, white, red rectangular shaped image with weird black and grey squiggles going through the middle. Also-I'm not sure how to describe it but what used to be a clear line I guess to separate the stacks stuff with the other icons on my dock it's next to about this mac icon on my dock has turned into a weird pink rectangle with a really small picture of the weird red, green, and white rectangle on top. Any help would be greatly appreciated. My husband is a windows guy and after me bragging about how much better mac is, I don't want him to know that I'm already having problems with leopard

No, this is not "normal behavior." The problem is that it is not consistent, either, so it is hard to tell what is going on. It may happen after using some full screen programs, but I am not sure. I am not able to reproduce the issue, myself. It just happens from time to time.
The icons are not changing after they are used. The ones in the download folder will usually have their normal appearance, the dmg file or a pdf file with its "preview" icon or whatever. Then, for some reason, I will notice some of the icons have become blocky and pixilated, not resembling anything, usually almost a solid color.
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