Anyone having problems with Apple Mail after installing Lion?

Wife is at wit's end. Mail locks machine w/Lion

Yes, mail program locks up machine and results in spinning rainbow of death. Searching for answers, but no luck yet. Contacts feature also does not work. I am using my P.C. to do research to try and help. Wondering if going back to Leopard would help?

 

I switched from Thunderbird to Apple Mail when I upgraded to 10.7 and have no problems sending or receiving email.

Have you verified your SMTP settings are correct? Are you using a Gmail account or an ISP account of some sort?

Scott

 

The new mail is working perfectly with me, it's one of the reasons i upgraded to Lion

 

I found this an it worked for me. Was using Postbox, nice but not as integrated as Apple Mail.

Try it exactly as described. Been working for a few days for me with no issues.


I've been dealing with this since installing Lion. This is on a clean install too. Finally chatted Apple support and they gave me a solution that worked for me. Goes like this:

Open Mail and delete your account.
Now quit Mail
Open your system prefs and go to Mobile Me
Sign out of Mobile Me
Now enter some random characters and numbers into fields for username and password and submit
You'll be told it wasn't valid (this action supposedly clears your account cache or something)
Now enter your proper Username and Password and submit
You may have to setup Sync again
Go back to Mail and add your Mobile Me acct with default options and save
Should now work sending mail over SMTP

Worked for me.

 

Deleting the account in preferences, and recreating the account will fix the problem.

BUT....... Does anybody know if your sent emails rebuild with the inbox? I have multiple accounts, and hundreds of emails I save for reference. It would take me hours to move them all to a ON MY MAC folder.

So has anybody rebuilt a mailbox? Did your sent emails come back, after rebuilding?

Thanks

 

I tried this, but it's still not working. After I did all the steps, and went to open mail back up, my mail account that I had just removed automatically loaded back up, as though I had never deleted it in the first place. I still am unable to send mail. I just get a constant spinning wheel (not the beachball) next to the "Sent" text on the sidebar.

 

Fixed Mail freezing

I have fixed Mail freezing on my Macbook running 10.6.8 and I know how frustrating this problem is so I'm sharing, for what its worth, how I solved it.

To re-cap: suddenly last night I'm writing an email and the mac just freezes, rainbow spinning wheel, no keyb response. 1 min later and its ok, 10 secs later it freezes again and so on. It also stopped other apps as well. Nothing happened leading up to this event at all - no sign of disk failure, no dodgy emails, no new installs, been running all day ok.

Lots of info exists about possible things to try so here's what I DIDN'T do:-

Do a check disk / permissions check
Rebuild any mailboxes
Start in safe mode and open / close Mail.

What I did do is basically deleted some folders in the Mail dir on the hard disk with Finder (what a Cr=p name and icon) and Mail caved in and re-imported all my mail. This must be done with Mail CLOSED.

There was a scientific approach to what was deleted:-
I was having it hang mainly trying to sort Junk mail plus many people reported faults with that and the Deleted Items folder. So all Junk folders where deleted in Finder (Moved to Trash just in case!).

I had some drafts open so deleted everything in the drafts folder as well.

I had a load of emails pushed down to the task bar (or whatever its called) which were slow at loading up so I cleared that folder as well.

When I re-started Mail it said I was very naughty and would have to import all my emails again. So I did and 10 mins later I was up and running but with re-newed mailboxes.

I tentatively turned accounts back on, deleted old mail, quitting and re-starting mail at each stage and all was ok.

Looking at the forums I may have a bad hard disk where possibly the Junk folder was living so I may not have removed the cause yet. At least I'd backed up with time machine (the best piece of sw to be included in any Op Sys) onto a Verbatim 1TB ext HD (best magnetic media manufacturer - been using them since the days of 8 inch floppies).

Hope this helps you guys out there on T'interweb and saves you hours of frustration.

 

Didn't Work

So far, none of these solutions have worked. Arg!

At home, I'm on Mountain Lion and it works fine, but at work we are still on Lion (me), and Snow Leopard (everyone else).