I use Apple mail for email.  When…: Apple Support Communities. Nice solution. I haven’t had a problem with it. Thanks Tom.

When you add a photo to an email, control > Click on the photo in the message and selct “View as Icon”.

This may help.

Thanks upstateny

Here are the exact steps they had me follow to get to that location: 1.  Click Finder in the dock2.  Press and hold the Option Key3.  Select Go–>Library from the menu bar (still holding down the Option Key)4.  Double Click the Mail Folder5.  Double Click the V2 Folder6.  Double Click the MailData Folder You should see the \

via Lion mail not alerting new mail: Apple Support Communities.

Gmail Badge won’t update: Apple Support Communities. Nice solution by Scott Nash. I wonder if this is a weakness with Lion Mail?

Ok.  With the help of tech support, I managed to fix this problem.  Since I’m clearly NOT a moron who just doesn’t know what I’m doing, I suspect it’s possible others might have the same problem.  The issue was the envelope index file in the library.

~library/mail/v2/mail data/envelope index

If you delete that file it forces a ‘deep rebuild’ that recollects ALL your metadata.  It does not have recall your data from the servers, just the hard drive so it’s pretty quick.  After about four minutes of rebuilding, all my stuff reappeared and the badges were correct.

This is similar, but more extensive than the ‘rebuild’ at the bottom of the mailbox menu.  That didn’t work, but this did.

Mail Send Failed – “Milter rejected…: Apple Support Communities. Interesting. The work arounds seem to be two things:

1. Turn off SSL
2. Change from smtp.mac.com on part: 587 to port 25.
3. Get another email provider

Thanks Ernie Stamper.

Quit Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and locate the Outbox.mbox folder. Is there one? If you open it, does the Messages folder within it have any content?

Drag the Outbox.mbox folder from its location to the Desktop. Relaunch Mail, and attempt to send. Then in the Finder again, check to see if Mail has created a new Outbox.mbox folder, and to learn if this new message was in fact sent?

via Sending from Mail: Apple Support Communities.

Looks like tinoberlin found the solution. Another suggestion is to rebuild the mailbox.

Alright, editing the .emlx file in the directory /Users/Username/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes using TextEdit seems to be the only way to remove attachments from any email. You open the email, delete everything below your message, save it, close Mail, re-launch Mail, and the attachment has gone.

via Remove attachments in Mail: Apple Support Communities.

SquidlyMan figures out his own issue.

Ok…I take part of what I said back. It was MailActOn by InDev which allowed me to not automatically have a message marked as read.  See http://indev.ca/MailActOn.html for more info.

Apparently the version I had loaded wasn’t compatible with Lion Mail.app.  Since updating it, I know have this feature again.

 

Apple Mail, underlines and…: Apple Support Communities. This is a strange way to have to use it. Perhaps this will be fixed in Lion. Thanks Tom!

Have you made sure that in the New Message pane you set a font and size different from what is already set in Mail > Preferences?  I think that is required for the outgoing to actually include the rich text codes you want to send.

Christopher Breen comes to the rescue with this article Mac troubleshooting FAQ: iCal and Mail. These are some common problems that I have read people on the Apple Discussion forms have. Is everyone excited about the next version of Mail in Lion? Doesn’t it look amazing and useful?

Robin Bonathan got it working again. Great detective work!

I got growl mail to work again afterwards.

You need to change 1 info.plist file. (use textedit to modify)

With mail off.

Go to your user login directory and follow this path:-

~/Library/Mail/Bundles/GrowlMail.mailbundle/Contents/
Info.plist

open up info.plist

and in the area under <key>SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs</key>
Then add:
<string>9049EF7D-5873-4F54-A447-51D722009310</string>
<string>1C58722D-AFBD-464E-81BB-0E05C108BE06</string>

save the file and now Growl is once again working…

via GrowlMail not working in Mail 4.5: Apple Support Communities.

CMCSK solves the issue. Another reason this can occur is if your message is too big (like over the limit of your ISP). Most ISP’s wont sent an email over 20 MB. This can also happen if your network is slow and your message is big. One client who had this issue was fixed by upgrading to Gigabit Ethernet on the switch. Pretty cheap these days.

Repair permissions and restarting your computer usually helps with app quirks. See if “rebuilding” helps – Mail/Mailbox/Rebuild

Message was edited by: CMCSK

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Sending hangs up ….

When checking my sent mails in Apple Mail I noticed that all images had been replaced by a ‘Missing Plugin’ notice. I traced this to an issue with the Java plugin unavailable to be displayed in Mail.

The solution was to reset the Java preferences for the top (web browser) items on the ‘General‘ tab of the Java Preferences application to standard. Make sure the boxes are checked for those items and click ‘Restore Defaults.’ This app can be found in /Applications/Utilities/.

Larry McJunkin figures it out.

Disregard this question…just fixed the problem by unchecking “Use idle command if the server supports it” in Preferences > Accounts > Advanced

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Lost sound for new mail ….

Jeffrey Jones2 figured it out.

Preferences > Accounts > select account > Mailbox Behaviors; Uncheck

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Why are my notes showing up in Mail as ….

eddieb figured it out: (It makes sense that it wouldn’t understand two different accounts)

I figured out the problem on accident. Very long story short here. I use a MobileMe email account. When I set up the iPad, it set the account up automatically for me based on my email address, etc. But I just ran across the fact that when it set up the account automatically, it used the “@me.com” suffix on the email address. I use the “@mac.com” suffix instead. For those not familiar with MobileMe, you can use either interchangeably in the email address.

But when doing a reply all, since the email address I normally use and the one in my account settings is different, it didn’t eliminate my email from “Reply All”. So I changed the account email address (actually had to delete and recreate the account) and all is well.

Although your stabs at the problem didn’t help me Doug, the one about the alias is similar to what the problem was and should have helped me, so I’ll mark that down as “Helpful”. Thanks!

via Apple – Support – Discussions – When I.

His solution:

Fortunately there is one clever workaround. Stop using IMAP for your drafts. If you set Apple Mail to save your drafts locally, they dont proliferate. There is a significant disadvantage. Any drafts which you have locally will not be available on your other computers.

via Apple Mail: Getting rid of multiple draft messages in IMAP Foliovision.

Maintain – Blog – Optimize Apple Mail.  Some good suggestions.  If you follow these you probably won’t get any corruption issues in Mail.

The OP figured it out himself.  Good work.

Finally figured it out myself after trying many combinations of things. In Home>Mail>Mailboxes, I deleted the whole folder for the account (IMAP-myaddress@imap.gmail.com) as well as outbox.mbox. I emptied the trash and it finally recycled the account and loaded all my mail from the last 4 days. Maybe this will help someone else.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Apple Mail in loop and no other ….

Apple – Support – Discussions – Pasting text into Mail font issue ….  If you want the text to be the same style when you paste into Apple Mail just do what William Boyd Jr. suggests:

You can use the menu option Edit -> Paste and Match Style (command-option-shift-V).

John Mertes said:

Received and installed the replacement /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/Mail.help is 28.3 MB on disk 21,241,463 bytes for 3,648 items; 2 bytes different.But Mail Help now works!Thank You!

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Help error.

Configuring Mails Junk Mail settings E-Mail.  Some good suggestions and great comments at the bottom.

Looks like ewhainsworth has it under control.

I had the same problem with my gmail account. I found two different things to fix this. First, I deleted my gmail account in Mail, the created a new one. Second, I deleted the Outbox According to this post by Ernie:

With a too large to send message, try quitting Mail, and in the Finder open Home/Library/Mail/Mailboxes and locate the Outbox.mbox folder. Delete it, and when you relaunch Mail and next send a new one will be created.Seems to be working properly now.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Not receiving mail / getting endless ….

captfred has the answer!

You can remove it in Mail. Go to the Window > Previous Recipients. In the new pop up window you can highlight the ones you dont want and hit the

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Removing old references/addresses ….

You can just Secure Empty Trash and that will delete them without an error.

n Address Book, note the “Group” panel on the left.

You can create a group by clicking on the “+” on the bottom of the panel, and populate it by dragging cards of people in the address book into the group.

You can also create a group in Address Book form the File menu, which gives you options to create a group, and “New Group From Selection” which is handy if you’ve selected a number of cards in your contact list.

Finally, there’s my personal favorite, “File > New Smart Group”. This is excellent because it permits you to create a group that’s made of cards meeting criteria that you specify. If you add a new card with the specified criteria, it’s part of the group. One thing you could do is create a group of people that, for example, live in your hometown… However, I’ve found it immensely useful to select cards based on a word or phrase in the note field (e.g., I have a smart group called Christmas Card that contains all people with the phrase “xmas card” in the note field). You can also make groups like “everyone that’s got a birthday in the next week” and so on.

If you want to send e-mail to a whole group, simply type the group name in the To:, Cc: or Bcc: fields in Mail. You’ll notice that as you type, the group name will appear in a drop down and you can select it. When you do, the group name will be replaced with all the individuals in the list.

There are two ways:

1. Connect the two computers via a network. Enable file sharing on the MBA. Open Mail on the iMac and select Import Mailbox from the File menu. Select Apple Mail and then navigate on the MBA to the /Home/Library/Mail/MailBoxes/ folder. Select it and click on the Open button. Check the boxes for all the mailboxes you wish to import then click on the Import button.

2. Copy the entire Mail folder on the MBA to a USB flash drive or an external hard drive. Transfer the drive’s connection to the iMac then copy the Mail folder to the /Home/Library/ folder on the iMac. If necessary move the existing Mail folder to the Trash. You will also need to copy the /Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from the MBA to the same location on the iMac.

Apple – Support – Discussions – Duplicates in Mail.app Unified Inbox ….

defaults delete com.apple.mail TableColumns

Restart mail. ”

via Apple – Support – Discussions – How do you edit address history in Mail? ….

(2) Back over in your user account, try rebuilding that account’s inbox (Mail.app > menubar > Mailbox > Rebuild). Quit Mail then relaunch Mail.

(3) If (and only if) the account in question is NOT a POP account, delete the account from within Mail Prefs, quit Mail, relaunch Mail, and recreate the account in Mail Prefs.

(4) Write down on a piece of paper all the particulars about all your mail accounts — server names, server ports, SSL or no SSL, authentication types, etc. — and quit Mail. Move that user’s Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist to the desktop. Navigate to that user’s Library and command-single click on Mail and Mail Downloads. Right-click (or control-click) and compress them (now you have a zip file backup). Restart Mail. It will act like a first-time-ever launch. Recreate the accounts. If all acting normal and nothing appears to be missing or awry, throw away the zip file backup and the plist on the desktop. Otherwise, quit Mail, move the current Mail and Mail Downloads and com.apple.mail.plist in Library/Preferences to the trash. Double-click on the zip to uncompress it then move the zip to the trash. Move the plist on the desktop back into Library/Preferences. Now you’re back to how you were.

(5) Download the 10.6.3 combo update and reinstall it. Always a good idea to run Disk Utility verify disk and repair permissions before you start reapplying the combo update. If the hard disk needs a repair, boot from the installer DVD and run Disk Utility from there so that you can repair the hard disk.

(6) Make an appointment at a Mac Genius Bar.”

There are two things.  Ernie suggested “This test result would point to this being a problem that is characteristic of some, but not all, ISPs, and not the SMTP itself. It involves DNS, Two citations, different approaches, but really both addressing DNS:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9641256&#9641256

and

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8974547&#8974547

If you can get your ISP to give you hard DNS addresses, I would take that approach rather than Open DNS.Another thing to try first, is powering down your modem, router and computer, and then re-powering in the sequence recommended by your ISP.

The DNS address furnished by the ISP solution is best carried out in the router — do you have a router — used at home, when you have a laptop that you will use at other venues. Changing in the computer may impact remote use.

Since i switched from DSL to a cable broadband provider, I have not had to worry about this issue. When I did, however, I made the changes in the router, and not in the computer.”

Raltham suggests “I have had this problem too but have just found a cure.

Close Mail.
Open Mail by clicking on the Mail Icon, and at the same time press the Shift button.

I have no idea what it does, but it has made all the difference to the frighteningly sluggish performance of Mail. It is now back to normal.”

I think I figured out the solution, its been 9-10 Hrs since I testing it, so far its working good. Here it is what I did … (-:

Quit from Mail.app now …

Go to >> Home> Users > {Your User Account} > Library > Mail … Look for file nameMessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3, move this file to desktop or whatever location you want …

Now open Mail.app again, this should work properly now (-:

Good Luck.
-Sonu”