"Application Mail cancelled shutdown"

[kingal2004]

Whenever - or at least 90% of the time - I try to shutdown my MacBook Pro, I get the message "Application Mail cancelled shutdown" and so it is, my Laptop won't shut down. Whats wrong with that? (I searched the forum and found this thread http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/143729-cant-shut-down-imac.html , but it actually only explains how to shut OSX down but not how to avoid the problem)
I read on the net that several people had this problem with a prog called "uTorrent", and the solution found on the net was to update your OSX to 10.5.x or later. I'm on 10.0.3 so ?

I'd greatly appreciate help on this annoying prob.
thx alex

 

[Marty Macfly]

The first thing I'd have you do is go to Apple Menu/About This Mac and find out what version you're actually running. If you're really on 10.0.3, then I doubt if anyone can help you wade through that mess of an OS.

 

[Peace]

Either force quit Mail or upgrade to the newest OS.

 

[spinnerlys]

Have you quit Mail (CMD+Q)?

And you're on Mac OS X 10.6.3 I suppose, as 10.0.3 from 2001 isn't able to run on MBPs.

 

[kingal2004]

sry, clearly I'm on 10.6.3 as "spinnerlys" assumed right.
The thing is that after I ordered the OSX to shut down I get the msg "Application Mail cancelled shutdown", and after this msg CMD+Q doesn't work for Mail anymore, same as File->Quit Mail (The option is "grayed out").

@Peace: That's my everyday solution to force quit, but I'd rather have it been quit by the OS, like all the other progs....

Any ideas on how to solve it, or why it actually occurs?

 

[rdowns]

The thing is that after I ordered the OSX to shut down I get the msg "Application Mail cancelled shutdown"

Have you tried asking it nicely?

 

[kingal2004]

@ rdowns: you may be right...i'll ask him to shut down without sending me stupid msgs tonight!

 

[chown33]

Any ideas on how to solve it, or why it actually occurs?

Open the Activity window (Window menu, Activity). See if Mail is trying to connect, send, receive, whatever.

 

[kingal2004]

thx chown I'll try that. but am I the only one expiriencing this problem?

 

[txguy]

thx chown I'll try that. but am I the only one expiriencing this problem?

[doublepost=1463839982][/doublepost]I am on El Capitan, MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
I have that issue also.
Most of the time I need to force quit mail to shut down.

 

[grahamperrin]

… 10.0.3 …

Mail in Mavericks, for me, nearly always quits extremely quickly.

Next time you find Mail in Yosemite taking too long to quit, view the Activity window to tell what's occurring. The content within that window is often muddled but for slow quits, the content should give you a rough idea.

 

[monokakata]

You're not the only one. I definitely see it maybe once a month and have through several OS versions, on a handful of different Macs (MBP, cMP, iMac). If it happened more often I'd get to work trying to figure it out. It's an annoyance that I just let go.

 

[Partron22]

Command Option Escape opens a "force quit" dialog in Finder. (It's in the Apple Menu, under recent items.)
Use it on Mail.

 

[Nermal]

Next time you find Mail in Yosemite taking too long to quit

10.0.3, not 10.10.3 (although it was a typo of 10.6.3). Nothing to do with Yosemite in any case