I love Mail.app, but I'm so beyond frustrated with the weird problems I've been having that I'm actually thinking of abandoning it for Entourage. :::gasp:::
Someone, please help me -- ANY thoughts on how I might be able to isolate the cause of the following problems would be much appreciated. Even if you don't have a solution, ANY thoughts would be helpful:
* Frequently crashes upon startup, and must be restarted (manually, not using the crash window's Restart button). Almost always, starts up fine the second time. Plugins I have running: GrowlMail, WideMail, Daylite. This problem has been going on since well before I ever installed those three plugins.
* I am CONSTANTLY having to rebuild every mailbox. Emails disappear from the list, change subject lines, and so on. I'm using IMAP4, but don't use server-based folders; I store everything on my mac after I move it out of the inbox.
* And the WORST problem of all: VERY, VERY frequently when I reply to an email (mostly with Reply to All messages, but often with just replying to the sender), I'll type out the message, hit send, and the message window closes, but no email is sent, nor stored in the sent items folder....and here's the real kicker: there isn't even an Outbox with the email waiting in it. If I do a Spotlight search for the text of the email, it will always come up, and it shows it located in my main inbox (but of course, it doesn't show up in the inbox within Mail, although I can open, delete, etc. the message through Spotlight or Finder). Typically, I'll find the email, copy the contents, paste it into a new reply, send again, and delete the original. Maybe 70% of the time it works the second time around. The remaining 30% I have to go through this process 2, 3, 4, even 5 times before it will actually send.
So far beyond frustrated...any help would be appreciated. I don't want to stop using Mail, and love it's seamless integration with iCal and Address Book, which other clients don't have. But I have to get past these three issues or I won't have a choice.
FWIW, I'm using a MacBook Pro, 15", 2.33 Ghz dual-core, 3 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, and running OS X 10.5.4, and Mail 3.4 (928/928.1).
Dan
Someone, please help me -- ANY thoughts on how I might be able to isolate the cause of the following problems would be much appreciated. Even if you don't have a solution, ANY thoughts would be helpful:
* Frequently crashes upon startup, and must be restarted (manually, not using the crash window's Restart button). Almost always, starts up fine the second time. Plugins I have running: GrowlMail, WideMail, Daylite. This problem has been going on since well before I ever installed those three plugins.
* I am CONSTANTLY having to rebuild every mailbox. Emails disappear from the list, change subject lines, and so on. I'm using IMAP4, but don't use server-based folders; I store everything on my mac after I move it out of the inbox.
* And the WORST problem of all: VERY, VERY frequently when I reply to an email (mostly with Reply to All messages, but often with just replying to the sender), I'll type out the message, hit send, and the message window closes, but no email is sent, nor stored in the sent items folder....and here's the real kicker: there isn't even an Outbox with the email waiting in it. If I do a Spotlight search for the text of the email, it will always come up, and it shows it located in my main inbox (but of course, it doesn't show up in the inbox within Mail, although I can open, delete, etc. the message through Spotlight or Finder). Typically, I'll find the email, copy the contents, paste it into a new reply, send again, and delete the original. Maybe 70% of the time it works the second time around. The remaining 30% I have to go through this process 2, 3, 4, even 5 times before it will actually send.
So far beyond frustrated...any help would be appreciated. I don't want to stop using Mail, and love it's seamless integration with iCal and Address Book, which other clients don't have. But I have to get past these three issues or I won't have a choice.
FWIW, I'm using a MacBook Pro, 15", 2.33 Ghz dual-core, 3 GB 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM, and running OS X 10.5.4, and Mail 3.4 (928/928.1).
Dan
