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gauchogolfer

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Jan 28, 2005
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Thanks in advance for helping me out here. I'm troubleshooting my sister's iBook running 10.4.6 and we're 7 time zones apart, so things take a bit of time to coordinate.

Her report to me was this: she opens up Mail.app, gets through the load process, sees her mail for about 2 seconds, then the app crashes.

So far (this morning) I've tried the following: reboot, repair permissions, trash .plist files from both her user account and the main mail folder, all to no avail. So, any ideas?

My next thought was to dump the LSMMap2, which I think is a junk mail filter. If that doesn't work, maybe she has an HTML message with a 'bad' image that's trying to load? If so, how would I disable html image loading without being able to run mail.app? Would disconnecting from the network first keep this type of crash from occurring?

Thanks for any help you can think of.
 
It does sound like a corrupt attachment. To narrow things down, get her to try to remember when exactly this started, then look through the emails (with attachments) that arrived at or just before that time. :)
 
mad jew said:
It does sound like a corrupt attachment. To narrow things down, get her to try to remember when exactly this started, then look through the emails (with attachments) that arrived at or just before that time. :)
Any idea how to browse through the attachments if Mail keeps crashing? I'll talk to her and see if she has webmail access, but if not, do you have any suggestions?

BTW mad_jew, I just nominated you (before your post) for most helpful MR member. :)
 
gauchogolfer said:
Any idea how to browse through the attachments if Mail keeps crashing? I'll talk to her and see if she has webmail access, but if not, do you have any suggestions?


Webmail access will make this easier. However, what sort of email is it? Is it POP3 or IMAP or something entirely different? :)


gauchogolfer said:
BTW mad_jew, I just nominated you (before your post) for most helpful MR member. :)


Got you fooled. :p
 
I actually browsed over to her ISP, and it looks like webmail access is possible. So, no need to work around this time. I'm pretty sure it's IMAP, though, FWIW.
 
Just to let you know, most of the time the corrupt attachment is either an app or even more commonly, a WMV. May not be the case for your sister (hell, corrupt attachments may not even be the problem), but it might help you find the culprit. Good luck. :)
 
mad jew said:
Just to let you know, most of the time the corrupt attachment is either an app or even more commonly, a WMV. May not be the case for your sister (hell, corrupt attachments may not even be the problem), but it might help you find the culprit. Good luck. :)

I had the same issue; Flip4Mac was the cause. I upgraded to a later version and the problem was fixed.
Very annoying btw.
Check if she has installed Flip4Mac
 
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