Misbehaving Mail.app [Archive]

Snowy_River

Mar 26, 2004, 01:08 PM

Hi everyone,

Just recently, Mail.app has started behaving very strangely. Specifically, every time I try to 'Junk' some mail, it crashes. It just suddenly started doing this, not connected to any software installation. I've tried trashing the prefs (in both places) - that was a pain as I had to rebuild all of my multiple email accounts - but that didn't help. I've rebuilt all of my many, many mailboxes, but that didn't help. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Darwin

Mar 26, 2004, 02:57 PM

Hi everyone,

Just recently, Mail.app has started behaving very strangely. Specifically, every time I try to 'Junk' some mail, it crashes. It just suddenly started doing this, not connected to any software installation. I've tried trashing the prefs (in both places) - that was a pain as I had to rebuild all of my multiple email accounts - but that didn't help. I've rebuilt all of my many, many mailboxes, but that didn't help. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!

Try repairing the permissions

Sorry thats all I can really suggest

realityisterror

Mar 26, 2004, 03:56 PM

<off topic>
why does everyone always say/type "mail.app"? why not just say "mail"? i don't know, it just bugs me...
</off topic>

reality

Sped

Mar 26, 2004, 05:00 PM

I had this exact problem running 10.3.2 on my 800MHz G4 iMac. To keep mail from quitting unexpectedly, I basically turned off junk mail filtering. After 10.3.3 was released, I turned junk filtering back on because there is a blurb in the 10.3.3 notes claiming this is fixed. It works just like it always did now.

OutThere

Mar 26, 2004, 05:45 PM

I had this exact problem running 10.3.2 on my 800MHz G4 iMac. To keep mail from quitting unexpectedly, I basically turned off junk mail filtering. After 10.3.3 was released, I turned junk filtering back on because there is a blurb in the 10.3.3 notes claiming this is fixed. It works just like it always did now.

Based on this...I think that you should upgrade to 10.3.3 - you won't be disappointed, unless you're on dialup.

OutThere

Mar 26, 2004, 05:47 PM

<off topic>
why does everyone always say/type "mail.app"? why not just say "mail"? i don't know, it just bugs me...
</off topic>

reality

Saying that you have a problem with Mail isn't necessarily very precise, as you could be referring to various things, one could also use 'OS X Mail' or 'the Mail application', but Mail.app is quick and to the point. :)