Weird mail happenings

don't know what happened, or what i did to cause this but my mail program is automatically sending a reply: please remove this address from your mailing list. i can't seem to find out why this is happening...
the other thing is, my junk mail is coming into my .mac account, but not showing up in my regular mail account. i've read some other posts that have similar issues, but my folders seem to be more complicated. knowing me, i'll just make things worse if i try it on my own! if you can help, i'd really appreciate it!

i figured out how what was happening w/ the email list messages... but still having a disappearing act w/ my junk mail. i tried to follow some of the other posts, but now i'm not getting any junk mail. any help would be much appreciated.

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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?

Weird Mail Issue

I have several mail accounts set up on my iPhone. When my phone is connected to the computer, the mail application (Mail on OSX) pops up a password refused dialog box for the accounts that are also on the phone. If i unplug the iPhone from the computer, it works fine. Really weird!

What would that have to do with anything?
Let me clarify...
I have 2 accounts on the computer that transfered their info to the phone when I synced. Both work fine, I can get mail on the phone and on the computer...
UNLESS: the iPhone is connected to the USB port on the computer. In this case, the phone still can receive e-mail but the Mail application on the computer kicks up a dialog box with Incorrect Password asking me for the correct password...typing it does not work and the dialog pops up again. It's a really odd problem.

Weird Mail Crash -- Need Help

My mail program has gone crazy. It is showing 3951 of my deleted and erased messages messages and will not let me delete them permanently. They will delete for a moment then reappear when I check for new mail. My server has no record of these messages. They are living somewhere on the hard drive I guess. I have tried trashing the mail preferences and rebooting. No luck. Any ideas what I can do?
I'm also all of a sudden getting impaired functioning in all programs. The "spinning beachball of death" is showing up a lot and restarting takes forever.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
- Seth

Welcome to the discussions.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607640&#607640
Read through the above link and follow some of the recommended steps to do some of the cleanup of your system may help.
Don

Very WEIRD mail bug

Does anyone have any idea what the cause of this could be? I discovered it while trying to email a screenplay to my agent. It took hours of trial and error to narrow it down to one "toxic" line in a 109 page script.
Summary:
A particular text string, if it appears in an email or in a document attached to the email, cannot be successfully sent or received using Apple mail servers.
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Type the following line (between the brackets) into a new email in Mail:
{Well, yeah. But I’d still want to cheat with you. You know, occasionally.}
2) Send the email either from or to a .mac, .me, or .icloud address
Expected Results: The email arrives at its intended destination.
Actual Results: The email disappears without a trace.
Notes: If this line appears in an attached PDF or RTF file, the result is the same.

Wow, this is a new one on me!?
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move this folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot. Click on Rebuild in Mail's Mailbox Menu after highlighting the gMail account.
Note, in 10.5 & up /Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/ may or may not exist.

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.

Weird Mail sound

Does anyone else's email alert sound have a weird hiss sound after it plays -- BING, then a quick sisss
Very odd.

On my MacBook Pro 13.3 Retina I hear a kind of white noise in the following cases:
1) Just after plugging-in my headphones and it lasts about 1 min.
2) Once a system sound (notification of smth else) has palyed. It lasts some 10-15 sec. and ends with a click sound.
I know that people are able to hear deferent frequences depending on their age: younger people can hear frequences that are inaudible to older ones. Thay would be nice that Apple finally fix it, as it's frustrating to work with headphones on.

Weird mail "From Apple" going around

Hey guys,
Today this appeard in my mail inbox... (Photo)
I know is a scam, so watch out!

Yeah, so it sounds to me too but I already traced down smtp envelop sourcing path and yes, it came from apple server
by 10.58.12.106 with SMTP id x10csp21033veb; Sat, 8 Sep 2012 00:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
Received:
by 10.66.79.38 with SMTP id g6mr12340905pax.40.1347088476786; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
Received:
from nwk-txn-msbadger0301.apple.com (nwk-txn-msbadger0301.apple.com. [17.254.6.88]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id qd8si12326889pbc.307.2012.09.08.00.14.36; Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path:
<[email protected]>
Received-Spf:
pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 17.254.6.88 as permitted sender) client-ip=17.254.6.88;
Authentication-Results:
mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of [email protected] designates 17.254.6.88 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=[email protected]
Message-Id:
<[email protected]rp.apple.com>
And it seems to have something to do with iCloud
X-Buisness-Group:
iCloud

Weird Mail Problem

I have about 8 accounts running in Mail, 5 of them are my own with different servers, dot mac, aol, private domain name, etc. Naturally, under user name I put my own on each of them, suddenly, Mail can't seem to tell what Mail is supposed to go where. It's pretty much hit or miss which account any email will land in (the 3 not in my name have no problem). It never occurred to be this would be a problem because I assumed where mail went was due to the actual address, not my name.
I went in and deleted all names so it would only use the mail address for ID and that hasn't helped because Mail is still holding a memory of the accounts under my name. That part where you can just type the first letter of an address and it gives you all the choices that have been used before.
Removing preferences doesn't work, that totally erases ALL accounts. I tried rebuild mailboxes and that didn't help. How can I flush out the old names so that Mail stops using my name and mixing the mail up.

The FULL NAME and USER NAME for an email account are
not one in the same and are not interchangeable when
trying to describe a problem with the Full Name used
for an email account.
Sorry, my mistake. I had just looked at it and could of sworn it said User Name and not Full Name. Must be this flu I'm fighting.
The email address may appear hidden due to using
Mail's Smart Address feature but is not hidden when
viewing the long message headers for a received or
sent message.
Yes I know, but turning that off doesn't get rid of the Full Name, it just puts both the full name and the full address on there. And, even though I've deleted all Full Names in the problem accounts Mail still automatically puts the old Full Name in the email even though it's been deleted. Changing the name rather than deleting it doesn't help either, it still puts the original name in.
With one of these received messages sent to your AOL
email address for example but was received by and
deposited in the Inbox mailbox for your Spymac
account, at the menu bar go to View > Message and
select Long Headers.
Which email address is shown in the To: or Cc: field
- your AOL email address or your Spymac email address?
My AOL address sitting there the Spymac Inbox, otherwise I wouldn't know I had the problem. In fact, I just checked Spymac's Webmail and it's on their server too.
Kevin

Weird mail

whenever i open my mail everything works just fine but if i click on all the folders like inbox, sent, drafts and all those and then go to click on them again nothing happens. Nothing comes up. If i let it sit for a while they all start working. Is this a problem or is it normal. If it is normal why does it do this. Thanks

Have you ever used the Rebuild Mailbox function on any mailboxes?
If not, quit Mail first and using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. Copy the Mail folder and place the copy on the Desktop for backup purposes.
Launch Mail and after all accounts are checked for new mail, open "In" in the mailboxes drawer by selecting the black triangle beside it pointing it down to reveal each account named Inbox mailbox. One at a time, select an account named Inbox mailbox and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox and select Rebuild. If you have never used this previously, run it several times on each mailbox.
Repeat under Sent and for all user created mailboxes.

Weird Mail activity

I have Mail picking up five different accounts. It is set to check every minute. Sometimes, the status bar says that it is getting new messages... and many of them. Just now it said it was getting 12,500 messages. That counts in my mailboxes however are staying the same. Does anyone have an idea what might be happening?
This started when I tried to forward my Cox e-mail to my Gmail account. Then I thought I would be able to pick up my Cox e-mails through my iPod. When I was unsuccessful in setting this up I tried resetting my mail accounts, but Cox e-mails were still going to Gmail. I think everything works fine now. If anyone give me suggestions I would appreciate it.

I have Mail picking up five different accounts. It is set to check every minute. Sometimes, the status bar says that it is getting new messages... and many of them. Just now it said it was getting 12,500 messages. That counts in my mailboxes however are staying the same. Does anyone have an idea what might be happening?
This started when I tried to forward my Cox e-mail to my Gmail account. Then I thought I would be able to pick up my Cox e-mails through my iPod. When I was unsuccessful in setting this up I tried resetting my mail accounts, but Cox e-mails were still going to Gmail. I think everything works fine now. If anyone give me suggestions I would appreciate it.

Mail keeps getting stuck checking mail and just sits there

My dad's dual G5 is having weird mail problems. When you open Mail, it initiates the checking the mail procedure. The Activity Viewer says that it is checking X out of 1700 at this point and it gets to 71 and then hangs on one spam message written in Russian. He has his laptop set up to check this same email account (Pop mail on our virtual server) and it is still working fine, so I think its something on his version of Mail on that computer.
Any suggestions?
If we reinstall Mail, will his messages disappear?
Is there a preferences file to throw away like in the old days?
Thanks!
dual G5 desktop Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Are there 1700 messages on the server? What are his Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings for this account?
Sometimes messages left on the server clog up the account there, or Mail chokes on a message it cannot download and that prevents it from downloading the rest as well. Solving this problem will probably require removing one or more messages from the server.
You may tell Mail to remove from the server all the messages that have already been downloaded by means of Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove now. Alternatively, you may use the Account Info window to remove specific messages from the server — choose Get Info (⌘I) from the Action menu (gear icon) located below the mailbox list in the main Mail window. And if the account allows web access, you may also remove messages from the server that way.
Try removing from the server messages that have already been downloaded and/or the first message not downloaded yet (i.e. the message that Mail appears to be choking on).

MAILS SENT TO ALL MY CONTACTS, IS IT A VIRUS?

Hello:
All my contacts are receiving s weird mail that I have not sent. Is it avirus?

See:
http://www.reedcorner.net/guides/macvirus/is_it_malware.php#spam
(Note that my pages contain links to other pages that promote my services, and this should not be taken as an endorsement of my services by Apple.)

Is this a scam/phishing e-mail asking me to re-validate my contacts/calendar with my Google account?

Hi BB team,
I've received apparently a genuine e-mail from : [email protected] , advising me that I should to go into my e-mail account setting to re-validate my gmail account in order that it can synchronize again with my contacts and calendar. So far so good, I went into e-mail setup, and at the same time I went into the settings of my master google account in the browser, in order to get a new code/password to do the link through Chrome, so I did it and then I entered the new password in the e-mail setup of the phone and perfect...BUT seconds later, I received again from the same direction another email with this subject:
Gmail Authorization Required, with this subject:
For security reasons, Google requires you to authenticate [removed] with them at the following URL to allow syncing of your contact and calendar information:
[removed]
You have 60 minutes from the receipt of this message before the URL above expires.
If the URL expires you will have to disable and enable contacts and calendar from Email Setup on your BlackBerry Device to receive a new URL.
Thank you for choosing BlackBerry.
When I click that link, my smartphone's browser activated itself, showing me directly a google page with the two fields to fill: login and password. I don't know, maybe I'm a little paranoic with this weird mail, but I've never see this before, Blackberry doing security procedures through the browser, weird!
Is it secure? is a new procedure?
Thanks
MOD EDIT: Removed personal information to comply with Community Guidelines and Terms and Conditions of Use.

First, you should not post personal info like your email address. This is a public forum. I'm a user like you.
All I can say is what you describe is new to me. I see the BlackBerry,com domain in that link, but I don't understand it. I have received a message before, of course, to revalidate an email, but it was a simple matter of going into setup and entering the password for the email account.
- Ira

Mail Requests Account Setup Daily

Hi,
I've recently installed Safari 4 beta. Since doing so, at midnight, Mail runs its 'Welcome to Mail' setup. I don't use Mail, nor do I want to, however, I can't for the life of me, figure out how to make this behavior stop. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.
Cheers,
Mpaquin

Remove Safari 4 Beta. I've seen a number of other reports involving weird Mail problems starting at the same time as installing this beta, and one person reported that removing the beta immediately solved the problem he was having.

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